Let’s take a break from thinking about Facebook, shall we? Recently I shared some of my favorite teaching blogs and technology blogs. Today, some blogs about visual thinking: FlowingData - Nathan Yau’s blog is an impressive collection of data visualizations from around the Web. Yau is a PhD student in statistics at UCLA with a [...]
The other day, I shared a few of my favorite teaching blogs. Today, some blogs about technology, mostly in the service of teaching: Cyberpop! – After following her on her blog and on Twitter for months, I finally met Sidneyeve Matrix at a conference this summer. She was just the bundle of energy and ideas [...]
A tool we use at the center to improve our ability to work together is StrengthsFinder, a research-based tool for identifying one’s talents and proclivities in one’s work life. One of my top strengths, as identified and described by this instrument, is “input.” I like to learn about news, information, and ideas frequently and from [...]
Just a short post to prove that I’m still alive… When I think of all the projects I’m now juggling at work, I’m reminded of the ABC television show Lost. Lost had over a dozen major characters, but the writers focused each episode on a single character. I’d watch, thinking things like, “Wow, this John [...]
Eric Darr is the provost at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, and he’s banning Facebook and Twitter from his campus. Well, only for a week, and only sort of. Darr is interested to see what happens when access to certain social media websites (as well as certain collaboration tools in the campus’ course management [...]
Last week, ProfHacker featured another guest post of mine, “Social Bookmarking Even When You Don’t Feel Social: Why I Use Delicious.” I describe how I use the social bookmarking service Delicious (primarily to find useful and interesting resources I’ve stumbled upon in the past) and why the tools that Delicious provides (ubiquity, tag suggestions, tag [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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