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	<title>Glencora Borradaile &#187; teaching</title>
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	<description>Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University</description>
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		<title>Student depression, large classes and online classes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/29/student-depression-large-classes-and-online-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/29/student-depression-large-classes-and-online-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter, three students I was teaching spoke with me about their depression.  Three of the 160 or so students I was teaching. This was the first time a student had spoken with me about their mental health.  I was happy that these students felt that they could approach me.  I was uncertain of what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teaching with a microphone</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Claire&#8217;s post on accidentally taking a classroom microphone with her after teaching, I grumbled to myself &#8220;I wish I taught at a fancy university with a fancy microphone in the fancy classroom.&#8221;  One email later, I learn that there is a microphone in the computer cabinet in the classroom where I teach 130 students. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teaching Matroids</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/19/teaching-matroids/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/19/teaching-matroids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my grad algorithms class, I taught matroids.  This was last Thursday and came on the heels of a class and problem solving session on greedy algorithms.  The class, I think, went well.  I went slowly (Socratically), building up the definition of a matroid using the graphic matroid as an example, motivated by Kruskal&#8217;s algorithm [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death by Powerpoint</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/14/death-by-powerpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/14/death-by-powerpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my grad algorithms course, I am teaching in an increasingly Socratic way (not all the way there yet) and covering less material as well.  Well, going through fewer examples.  In my freshman &#8220;Orientation to Computer Science&#8221; course, I am doing this much less so.  I find it challenging because, while the material is quite [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Note to self: turn off cell-phone data connection during class</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/04/note-to-self-turn-off-cell-phone-data-connection-during-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/04/note-to-self-turn-off-cell-phone-data-connection-during-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my large intro class I used Robozzle to talk about program control and introduce recursion. Robozzle does use a true call stack and to solve some puzzles (for example, learning stack, recursed, learning stack 2, limit your stack, counting &#8211; green) you really need to understand both recursion and how the to use the call stack.  This is week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My office hours are gender balanced</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/03/my-office-hours-are-gender-balanced/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/03/my-office-hours-are-gender-balanced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I didn&#8217;t see the students sitting in the lecture room while I taught and only knew who I was teaching to by the students who speak to me after class, in the hallways or in my office hours, I would think the gender ratio was at least balanced in computer science. Overwhelmingly, one-on-one, my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grade inflation and teaching evaluations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/26/grade-inflation-and-teaching-evaluations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/26/grade-inflation-and-teaching-evaluations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got my teaching evaluations back for a graduate course on approximation algorithms that I taught in the spring quarter.  They were significantly better reviews than I&#8217;ve received in my previous courses (which were okay &#8211; slightly above the College average).  I chalked it up to it being the first course I taught for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this? quiz followup</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/17/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-followup/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/17/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-followup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my experiments in teaching this quarter was to have a quiz the second week of class on material that I considered so basic, that if you couldn&#8217;t do very well on the quiz, well, you may well consider (re-)taking the undergrad algorithms course first.  A few students with lower scores on the quiz [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pedagogical excuses: bad penmanship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/22/pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/22/pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally an excuse for my bad black/whiteboardpersonship! Apparently, retention of information is improved if the way it is presented is difficult to read: &#8230; if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent &#8230; We&#8217;d found that disfluency led people to think harder about things. Aside: the lead author, Connor Diemand-Yauman, either has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: problem-solving sessions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/14/experiments-in-teaching-problem-solving-sessions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/14/experiments-in-teaching-problem-solving-sessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a more significant experiment than the am-I-ready-for-this quiz, I am rethinking the assignments that accompany my grad algorithms course.  In last year&#8217;s class, I had the grad students work in randomly-assigned and rotating (different for each assignment) groups.  I will comment on this in another post. I&#8217;m sticking with the group-based approach &#8211; partly for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this? quiz outcome</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/11/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/11/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I gave the students in my grad algorithms class an am-I-ready-for-this? quiz.  I promised to report back, and I&#8217;m already a little late on that.  The average for the quiz was ~ 70% &#8211; I was hoping for a higher average, given how easy the quiz was (in my opinion).  Two students did [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this quiz</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/01/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/01/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am teaching &#8216;the grad algorithms course&#8217; for the second time.  It is the first time I am teaching a course for the second time and am excited at finally having the opportunity to fix my previous mistakes.  &#8217;The grad algorithms course&#8217; is required for all CS Ph.D. students in our department and a prerequisite [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What theory should every non-theory Ph.D. student know?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/05/what-theory-should-every-non-theory-ph-d-student-know/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/05/what-theory-should-every-non-theory-ph-d-student-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve survived my first week of teaching graduate algorithms and data structures. &#8220;Survived&#8221; really isn&#8217;t the right word. I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun and the students in the class are bright and interactive, which makes a 50 minute lecture go by in a flash. Since the time is going by so quickly, I realize [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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