Tony Hirst pointed me to a lovely blog by a T189 student. It’s a stunning example of the usefulness of blogging in education. It provides the student with a tool for publication and self-expression, and it provides very useful information for teachers (e.g. in this case about the difficulties T189 students are experiencing with our [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Student blogging
Posted in Blogging, Learning, Photography, Teaching on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What Vice-Chancellors sometimes forget…
Posted in Universities on June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The physicist I.I. Rabi and General (later President) Dwight Eisenhower became friends after Eisenhower was appointed president of Columbia University soon after the end of WW2. When introduced to Rabi, Eisenhower said, “I am always very happy to see one of the employees of the university,” to which Rabi replied, “Mr. President, the faculty are [...]
