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Women and Wikipedia
Perhaps you have seen that Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until just now. She was deemed by the moderator not to be worthy back in March 2018. See the discussion on the Wikipedia … Continue reading
Posted in Awards and prizes, Gender bias, Wikipedia
Tagged bias, Nobel Prize, notabilitiy, Wikipedia, women in science
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Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual? Compare athletes to academics and the answer is yes.
Recently some of my students have been writing biographies of scientists for Wikipedia. They wrote one for a research scientist who made a discovery so major she was on the phone with reporters for a week. The discovery was that … Continue reading
Have you tried the new Wikipedia Visual Editor?
One of the things that keeps some people from making a quick edit to Wikipedia is unfamiliarity with the HTML markup code. It isn’t hard, especially if you do some of their great tutorials, but you can also use their … Continue reading
What is the copyright of this blog?
I hope I sometimes post something useful to you. You might want to use it for your own group, or send it around. But there are some things you don’t agree with that you want to change. Is this all … Continue reading
Posted in Public Communication, Writing
Tagged copyright, creative commons, Open Stax, Wikipedia
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Surprising best gift to my undergraduate students
This is the time of year when I start to wonder if I’ve done a good enough job with my large undergraduate class. Have I really shaped a great learning experience for the 46 students in Biology 472, Behavioral Ecology? … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching
Tagged colleagues, friends, high school, learn, teach, teams, Wikipedia
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A rant on letters of recommendation that include passwords and check boxes
This is the time of year we write letters of recommendation. If you have a lot of students, you may be writing a lot of letters. Each student will need several letters. We generally use the same letter for different … Continue reading
How to change an organization, a department, a curriculum
Whatever field you are in, there will be organizations with structure and rules. In academics, departments have committees, undergraduates have a required curriculum, graduate students have their courses, exams, and theses. Sometimes these structures are very well known and standard … Continue reading
Posted in Department politics, Life in a biology department, Politics, Undergraduates
Tagged alliances, Arizona State University, behavioral ecology, change, conflict, cooperation, Curriculum, Education, evolutionary biology, Harvard University, organization, stucture, tradition, Undergraduate education, Wikipedia
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The trouble with grading rubrics
Most of the advice I read about grading points to the importance of rubrics. Blackboard even lets me put a rubric up on the site. Why is this? What is a rubric? What is the trouble with rubrics? Well, according … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, The joy of teaching
Tagged Blackboard, Education, Educators, grading, K through 12, Rubric, Student, teaching, Thought, undergraduates, Wikipedia
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Undergraduates, stop before sending that email!
Even in the smallest, most elite universities, there are more students than professors in nearly every class. In my current biggest class there are 52 students. Imagine what it is like for me and my teaching assistants when students decide … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Undergraduates
Tagged Academic term, communication, email, professor, professors, syllabus, Teaching assistant, teaching assistants, undergraduates, Wikipedia
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Sociobiology 