https://northtube.ca/w/28sUV6uosRvAA3kJaNXiyT

I uploaded my old #Django class to #Peertube - for those who have dabbled in #programming and wants to learn the fundamentals of #webdev

The original slideshow has been lost to google drive (R.I.P), but I have https://mathewstorm.ca/tech/tutorials-Django/01-creating-a-project-base/ as a text guide, for those of you who learn better through words!

Working on getting the second part uploaded 😁 hopefully this can help some people.

#python #teaching

https://northtube.ca/w/28sUV6uosRvAA3kJaNXiyT

I uploaded my old #Django class to #Peertube - for those who have dabbled in #programming and wants to learn the fundamentals of #webdev

The original slideshow has been lost to google drive (R.I.P), but I have https://mathewstorm.ca/tech/tutorials-Django/01-creating-a-project-base/ as a text guide, for those of you who learn better through words!

Working on getting the second part uploaded 😁 hopefully this can help some people.

#python #teaching

When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?

I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.

But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!

So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).

When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?

I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.

But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!

So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).

I don't like words like "outstanding" in grading forms or matrices. Particularly not in the last: outstanding from what? Or whom? Please give me something that doesn't depend on context not given in the matrix :/

#teaching #academicChatter

Today in the classroom:

This week is all kinds of messed up. I'm in school today and then out for three days for a funeral. Today is last minute review for all classes because they'll be taking their finals while I'm away. Main topics will be stoichiometry and thermochemistry.

#teaching #chemistry

A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398587877_A_Scalable_Theory-Based_Intervention_to_Influence_Teachers'_Student_Engagement_Practices_Improves_Academic_Performance_in_a_State-Wide_Sample
More about FUSE (Fellowship Using the Science of Engagement): https://fuse.prc.utexas.edu/
#EdDev #EdPsy #Teaching

Today in the classroom:

First year chem will do atomic structure/periodic table Jeopardy. It's our most recent unit, so it should break up the paperwork monotony a little. Winners are eligible to pull an trinket form a box of junk I found in a closet (think dentist treasure chest type stuff).

Second year chem is slogging through bonding theory. We've done three days of modeling, today we'll look at physical properties in a simple lab.

#chemistry #teaching

Today in the classroom:

It's a new day. I'm heading back into first year chem with a clean slate. We're splitting time today between starting a high-level survey of each standard this semester and creating a concept map showing relationships. The rest of the time is corrections on the last test.

Second year chem will do some work with bond types and bond lengths. They'll take a short quiz tomorrow on VSEPR geometry based on Lewis diagrams.

#chemistry #teaching

Today in the classroom:

First year chem tests were okay. The biggest problem was on explanations and justifications, so we'll revisit writing good answers. Today, they're going to review the concept of unit conversions and ratios with three team challenges in the lab all based on mols.

Second year chem is finishing a simulation on bonding and practicing hybrid orbital formation/description/shapes.

#teaching #chemistry

Friends! I can finally show some money work! ✨

I did a bunch of illustration and layout work earlier this year for the GDP, this one was about water use in the production of everyday objects and food:

https://jfml.eu/2025/04/illustration-bildungskoffer-fur-die-gdp/

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #inkscape #design #BikeTooter #cycling #bicycle #cafe #coffee #edinburgh #scotland #hamburg #lübeck #environment #water #teaching #learning #summer

Today in the classroom:

First year chem is taking a test on the periodic table. Some basic stuff like valence shell and valence electrons, and drawing Bohr models/Lewis diragrams. They'll also explain periodic properties relating the observations back to atomic structure. This is the last unit test of the year.

Second year chem will do VSEPR theory today using carbon as an example. With only 2 unpaired electrons, how does it make four bonds?

#chemistry #teaching

I overslept an _hour_ this morning. I'm glad I set my alarm very early because we were still able to get out of the house without panicing.

First year chem is reviewing for a test over the periodic table tomorrow.

Second year chem is using the PhET atomic interactions simulation to learn the basics of bond length, bond order, and introduce molecular orbitals.

#teaching #chemistry

The #institutions of academia were fractured and now they are broken.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/colleges-ai-education-students/685039/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNHKLWWoWhcNXDTnLEzS4Hr4

#education #learning #teaching #CriticalThinking

Today in the classroom:

First year chem is making observations of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids. I don't love the lab, but it is what it is.

Second year chem is finishing some lab analysis and then working on Lewis structures using resonance and formal charge to determine best structures for compounds.

#chemistry #teaching

Development of a low-cost, versatile, #Arduino-controlled #OpenSource #gas #chromatography system for #teaching #analytical #chemistry:

- cost: < US $100
- #Python #GUI

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00868
#DIYbio #DIYchem #lab #instruments #education #STEM #MINT #school #EDU #GC

Friends! I can finally show some money work! ✨

I did a bunch of illustration and layout work earlier this year for the GDP, this one was about water use in the production of everyday objects and food:

https://jfml.eu/2025/04/illustration-bildungskoffer-fur-die-gdp/

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #inkscape #design #BikeTooter #cycling #bicycle #cafe #coffee #edinburgh #scotland #hamburg #lübeck #environment #water #teaching #learning #summer

Today in the classroom:

First day back from Thanksgiving break with an extra snow day tacked on yesterday.

First year chem will be modeling the s-subshell using probability. I'm also trying to decide if I want to do a metal/nonmetal/metalloid lab. I hate mine, might skip it this year.

Second year chem will look at carbon and try to explain why it can make four bonds with only two free valence electrons. Bonding this week and next.

#chemistry #teaching :cupofcoffee:

" #Antisemitic voices are “no longer on the fringes” of #American culture that #students are exposed to, said panelist Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski at a session discussing a new #book, #Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts (Eerdmans, out now), in which 35 #authors devote chapters to each of the 27 #books of the New Testament plus four extra-canonical texts.

“It’s designed for #teaching, to unpack some of the assumptions about #antisemitism and the locations of students in these issues,” says Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, director of the Center for Christian- #Jewish Learning at Boston College. His own book, Resisting Anti- #Judaism: Practices of Christian Solidarity will be released by Fortress in October 2026.

“These issues are not hypothetical, says Eric Vanden Eykel, associate professor of #religion at Ferrum College and one of three editors of Judeophobia and the New Testament."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/99187-antisemitism-draws-attention-at-aar-sbl.html