PHIL SIMON
Phil Simon
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Posts Tagged as: Teaching
Posts Tagged as: Teaching
Visualizing My Students’ Slack Messages
A Tableau dataviz that explores the relationship between days active and messages sent.
Professors: Expect Your Student Evaluations to Drop
The online experiment likely means lower numbers at the end of the semester.
Tips for Professors Teaching Online for the First Time
Some tools to help newbies weather the transition.
My Five Most Popular Posts From 2019
What resonated with my readers last year.
Advice for My Dataviz Students
Parting thoughts as they embark on their careers.
Using Slack in the Classroom: A Case Study
How professors can use the collaboration tool to engage their students
The Years That Matter Most
A review of Paul Tough’s new book
Finding Teachable Moments in Poor Student Presentations
How a disappointing result can lead to true learning.
Adding Spice to a Mundane Lecture Topic
Illustrating business processes need not be that boring.
Update on Slack For Dummies
What’s up with book number nine.
Talking Tech With Professor Simon
Encouraging important discussions about the role of technology in our society.
How a Good Syllabus Can Set the Right Tone With Students
Why not show them that you’ve got a little personality?
Visualizing My Teaching Schedule
Sometimes Gantt charts actually make sense.
The Analytics Project That “College Me” Would Do
If I were 21 again …
Summer Reading
Being able to regularly feed my brain is a nice perk of professor life.