Teaching the right way – with principles
How can principles help you build lesson plans? By helping your focus on what matters most. In this post, I outline how I used them to teach web services.
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How to Make the Best Damn Course in our College
Good is not good enough. Using key pedagogical principles, great things can happen in my course. Here’s how I plan to do it.
What the best college teachers do – a review
If you had to describe the best college teachers – across disciplines, across universities, and across class size – what characteristics would you include? How do the prepare for class? How do the assess...
Value Added in Teaching
As I was working on my lesson plans this morning, I asked myself “how best can I add value to the classroom experience?” You see, students have the capability to read books and watch lecture...
Helping Businesses Succeed Online
For the past three years, our MIS students have been working with local businesses and organizations succeed with their online presence. In a web development class I teach, students learn how to develop their...
4x the Website Traffic Doing Nothing
A strange thing happened to a website I manage. Reason for Success is a personal productivity website that attempts to integrate philosophy and science to the art of personal productivity. For over a year,...
The Ultimate Web Analytics Book
Web Analytics 2.0 It’s been a while since I have found an IT book that I’ve been able to geek out over, learning tons and enjoying the writing style. Well, over the last week,...
8 Quick Things to Improve Your Website
Most small businesses realize they need a website to attract customers, but often struggle to do it well. Here are the 8 things my students and I have noticed that business owners can do...
4 Views of Website Success
In the Spring of this year, one of my students was offered an internship with Waveborn based on a report she wrote in my class. Another student was asked to present his report to...
Improving my Teaching
Recently, I had the pleasure of reading Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov. Mr. Lemov is the director and former president of a series of highly successful charter schools. In this role, he...