Using A.I. in Dr. Westfall’s Classes: A Thoughtful Approach
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is changing the way we do things inside and outside of our classrooms. Tools like ChatGPT and other generative A.I. platforms…
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Teaching Tips
Dr. Westfall’s Writing Pet Peeves (a.k.a. How to Write a Paper I Won’t Hate)
We’re at the end of the Summer II term, and I’m reading term papers. It has made me think about the biggest issues I…
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Easy In-Class Presentation Ratings Using Google Forms, Sheets, and R
In my classes I’ll often have students give short presentations, and recently I wanted to allow my students to also rate each other. Here’s…
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Explain Everything Demo
I made this in about 5 minutes… sometimes having the right tool means pay a bit of money to speed up your workflow. Could…
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I’m Busy – My Best Tips and Tricks for A Productive Professional Life
It’s been awhile since I’ve talked productivity on this blog, but recently I’ve had a number of people point out to me that I’m…
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Send Automated YouCanBookMe (and other) Appointment Reminders Using Microsoft Flow / Power Automate
I have 2 offices, which means that when someone makes an appointment with me, they need to be aware which office I’ll be meeting…
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Easy Class Participation Tracking, Grading, Rubric Generation, and More with Excel
One of my classes this semester requires me to track how often students speak in class, and evaluate each comment. I also have students…
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Entry and Exit Tickets in Google Forms / Sheets – Flexible and Fun
Last week I attended a workshop on Differential Education, and realized that I’m already doing something very “differential-ly” – starting this semester in my…
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ProfLife – Being Productive Out of the Office
One of the great things about being a professor is that we’re essentially trained to be project managers – people who are specialists in…
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Ran across this nice little trick a few months back. One of the things I miss about SAS was the ability to copy/paste data…
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