The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 3 minutes It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.[show the article]
Grading Paper Exams with an iPad 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute Turns out you can grade paper exams pretty well with an iPad.[show the article]
Watching a Master paint 2019-03-04 | Reading time: Less than a minute Ah, Internet. It allows you access to the world of creeps without having to smell them (to quote someone I have just forgotten), but it also allows you to watch masters at work. Here's a video of a great artist just ... warming up.[show the article]
Gab.ai releases Dissenter — A tool to free comments on the Internet 2019-02-28 | Reading time: 2 minutes Gab.ai introduced Dissenter, a tool (website/browser plugin) to comment on websites (incl. tweets, news stories, etc.). Practically anything with an URL. So, all that closed comments on news sites ... they're open again.[show the article]
Mixed Media 2019-01-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute You can easily combine a projector and a blackboard.[show the article]
There (likely) is no single best reading position 2019-01-05 | Reading time: 1 minute Reading positions are dear to my heart — but I still haven't found one in which I can read for more than a couple of hours. But perhaps variability is the key.[show the article]
Comfortable Reading Position 2018-12-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute Still looking for a really comfortable reading position ... closing in, I guess.[show the article]
Introduction to R presentation (German) 2018-11-09 | Reading time: Less than a minute Just a short posting about a presentation I did on Friday, 9th of November, 2018.[show the article]
