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  1. Trashcano - a great lab especially on a sunny day before St. Pats when skipping out is a big temptation...
  2. Great Backyard Bird Count - very fun and very easy to do
  3. Faculty Position in Neotectonics, Remote-Sensing, and Geodynamics at Missouri S&T for details see hraadi.mst.edu/hr/employment/…
  4. I just joined LinkedIn and created my professional profile. Join my network. lnkd.in/xYRkNH #in
  5. Clickers in the classroom - can't make it to class just give your clicker to a friend and pretend you were there...until you get caught...
  6. Student survey-in lecture other students texting no problem, internet surfing, talking too distracting, clickers recapture their attention.
  7. Lecturing to "Cards" Fans after last night...I had to bring my A game to class!
  8. Laws of office cleaning: 1) Junk is created. 2) Junk is never destroyed. 3) Junk placed in the hallway diffuses to other hopeless hoarders.
  9. GSA...get up early...stay up late....go go go. I need a personal conditioning coach to stay in top form all meeting long.
  10. Getting Ready for GSA - Now a category 5 storm!
  11. Heard on NPR - the legacy of Steve Jobs...Engineers listen up...STEM + Art gives you STEAM.
  12. The pre GSA meeting frenzy is now category 4 storm...
  13. Let's learn from our mistakes and use technology to move science forward Scientist in a Strange Land | Popular Science popsci.com/science/articl…
  14. Are we focusing too much energy on students that are using FB or texting in class and forgetting the students that really want to learn more
  15. Requests, xeroxing, organizing, mailing, reprints was science-I'm tossing out those memories, fossils that now demand too much space
  16. @lockwooddewitt - thanks for the heads up - what a photo truly "out of this world" loved it.
  17. @EarthlikePlanet @jimprall My suggestion: design questions that promote discussion let students debate answers, correct answer 1 bonus pt.
  18. @ugrandite I'm putting Wakefield's picture up in lecture tomorrow - an old guy with a unique style still hanging tough...my hero
  19. @EarthlikePlanet @jimprall Turningpoint Technologies has made it easy to integrate the clicker responses right into the BB grade center.
  20. @EarthlikePlanet @jimprall Clickers are widely used across our campus so the ~$50 investment is minimal especially if it improves learning.