Informal Academic Advising and Other Educational Resources
>A sucker is born every minute, and thankfully today, I am not one of them. I recently had a nightmare experience with a vendor from a trusted and popular Freelance site. I believe the vendor to be in breach of our $500 project plan after changing the project specifications without cost specifications.
I call [...]
This is cross-posted at Robot in the Woods
As a former Geography professor, I still think of interesting projects to work on. I have one here that I think you could Wow a Geography professor with. That is, what is Science Fiction like in developing countries. Does it exist? And the same for Robotics. How [...]
For a brief period 6 months in 2006, I worked for a Charlottesville non-profit educational facility called Computers4Kids (C4K). In many ways, it was the best job I ever had simply because it allowed me to work within the world of technology while witnessing the tangible benefits to student learning. C4K describes themselves [...]
I am applying for teaching positions in the Northern VA/Washington DC Metro area and need used Human or Cultural geography texts for an experimental project called Open Source Geography.
If you have any used Human or Cultural Geography texts you no longer need or that the bookstore would not buy-back, consider donating them to the Open-Source [...]
I am currently applying for Geography Adjunct Teaching positions in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. For more information about my teaching philosophy, please my recent blogpost about building an effective student-professor relationship.
Open-Source Geography is a new concept in education in which a class of students write their own Geography textbook. This idea is in [...]
The idea of the e-book reader has always intrigued me, though I do believe e-books readers would have been much more popular had Wi-Fi and cellular technology not taken hold. Then Kindle came along and changes the game (slightly). Its primary drawback is having yet another gadget to carry around. Now, we [...]
So, I found a teaching gig I am interested in at Virginia International University in Fairfax, VA. They are a recently accredited academic program and I am interested in learning more about them. Their emphasis on collegiate level ESL would indicate an international student body of international students. It would be an [...]
Thanks to Jim for his analysis and for letting me use his findings for this post. If you would like to perform your own analysis on the location of Margarittaville, click this link to open to Google Earth file. If you do not have GoogleEarth, download it here.
One of the things I really [...]