Introducing Hackademe!

My latest online project: Hackademe!

Hack: A clever use of technology, software, or modified items to solve a problem or increase efficiency.

Academe: The community of scholars and students engaged in higher education and research; also known as academia or acadème.

Hackademe: A website devoted to sharing clever uses of technology, software, or modified items to solve problems [...]


I don't answer to "Hey".

The other day I had a meeting with a colleague who indicated that she refuses to answer emails from students addressed to “Hey,”. I was glad to hear this, because although I certainly like to be on a first-name basis with students (including undergrads) working in my lab, I expect students that I don’t [...]


Evolution: Education and Outreach, vol. 2 issue 4

The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online:

Article
Editorial
Mick Wycoff

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579-580

Article
How Can English Tell the Story?
Douglas Reed Eldredge

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581-583

Article
Becoming Modern Homo sapiens
Ian Tattersall

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584-589

Article
The Evolution of Morality
Douglas Allchin

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590-601

Article
The Argument from Design: A Guided Tour of William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802)
T. Ryan Gregory

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602-611

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How the Adaptation Got its [...]


Evolution and art.

From Oct. 9-30, the University of Guelph and Ed Video are hosting a special art exhibit entitled “This View of Life: Evolutionary Art for the Year of Darwin“. It was organized by professors in four departments: Integrative Biology, Philosophy, History, and English and Theatre Studies, and was curated by Scott McGovern of Ed Video. [...]


Teaching the iGeneration.

Some instructors have lamented the challenges of teaching students who are constantly logged-on, plugged-in, facebooked, etc.

Guess what? I like teaching the iGeneration*. I enjoy using YouTube clips in my lectures, putting together online discussions, and making use of blogs and online resources. I like the fact that they all have laptops (but [...]


Special issue of Journal of Effective Teaching.

The Journal of Effective teaching has a special issue on evolution education.

Journal of Effective Teaching

Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2009 [...]


My voice sounds less weird than I expected.

I did a brief radio interview with our campus station CFRU on today’s The Press Conference about our BioScience paper on graduate student understanding of evolution. Enjoy.


How well do grad students grasp evolution?

In my recent article on Understanding natural selection in E:EO, I reviewed a large number of studies that examined conceptions of evolution among students from the high school to undergraduate level, as well as among teachers. However, almost nothing seemed to be known about how graduate students in science perceive evolution or how well [...]


Evolution: Education and Outreach vol. 2 iss. 3.

The most recent issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (vol. 2, issue 3) is now available online. I decided to sit this one out after six consecutive contributions (links below), but I will be back in the next issue with a follow-up to my previous article on selection.

Evolution: Education and OutreachVolume 2, Issue 3EditorialGreg [...]


EvoCast?

There has been some discussion in the comments section of the previous post about probable interest in a regular EvoCast (cf. Astronomy Cast) that people could listen to, presented by evolutionary biologists and covering basic processes and exciting discoveries in evolution. This, or something like a series of videos on Youtube, has crossed my [...]