Pop Quiz: Of Ferret Pee and Snake Hisses
No corny Valentines Day Stories for Pop Quiz. I only recognize the true holiday of my birthday today!!! In celebration of this wondrous day I give you a corny teaching story instead. Years and years ago I taught a physics lab class at a farm town University. Normally, I would start my …
Pop Quiz: Comedy
Let’s face it: lectures are really not an ideal way to transmit large amounts of information to a crowd of disinterested (or sleepy) students, but thanks to the way academia is currently structured, we frequently find ourselves tasked with doing precisely that. Assuming that keeping students more interested in the …