Thursday, January 23, 2025

Setting automatic gVIM textwidth for Windows

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I've recently challenged myself to learn VIM, a text editor popular with computer programmers. One of the biggest obstacles was a featur...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Web-based statistics calculators - updated

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During the pandemic I was confronted with the challenge of providing statistics software to students who had a wide range of hardware and so...
Monday, May 13, 2024

The declining value of writing in college courses

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Asking students to write in college courses has been a long-time educational strategy. Writing a summary shows that the assigned work has be...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Animations to step through multiple stages of a complex figure

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Complex figures can be overwhelming to an audience. The issue: where should one begin? A similar problem is describing processes that have m...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Explaining the difference between duplicate vs. extended screen settings

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PowerPoint has a special screen for presenters that shows the slides plus a variety of control buttons and a clock. Accessing this feature r...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Using Annotation Tools to Increase Interest During Online Presentations

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Like many educators, my pandemic classroom presentations have been split between in-person, classroom students and students who are watching...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Transparency in Higher Ed PowerPoint Presentations

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Transparency is a hot idea in higher education. The idea has multiple dimensions, but here we will focus on the essential "transparent...