1 day agoUsing a calendar for better time management: What I do (Part 1)I use Trello to keep track of everything I have to do, as seen by my multiple blog posts on it (task tracking for a big class, personally, and a conference and a whole board about podcasts I listen to). However, I also use my calendar to help me manage…Calendar6 min readCalendar6 min read
Jun 20Management skills, professors need them tooAn underlying current in my blog post series on how I manage the teaching staff for my 200+ student CS1 class is that teaching large classes requires management skills. Notice I said skills because I fully believe we can all learn and improve how we manage people. The amount of…Management6 min readManagement6 min read
Apr 18Hybrid Chair for SIGCSE TS 2023 (Round 2)Time for a reflection on being the Hybrid Experience chair for SIGCSE TS 2023, a.k.a. round 2! This year was so much more manageable in terms of time commitment. I also helped introduce new processes and aspects to the symposium. In this post, I will start with the new processes…Hybrid Conference5 min readHybrid Conference5 min read
Feb 1GitHub Rules and ExpectationsIt is important to have documentation for people to reference as they learn how to work in a team. One document I use when I’m onboarding a student onto one of my codebases is my GitHub Rules and Expectations. The basic idea is to give them a clear idea of…Git4 min readGit4 min read
Dec 13, 2022Grading Logistics: Ideas and TipsI consistently teach over 200 students at a time. Therefore, I heavily rely on autograders and teaching assistants (TAs) to grade everything. I use and love Gradescope. But, like all interfaces, Gradescope is limited in the affordances of how to use it. So I thought I’d write a blog post…Grading6 min readGrading6 min read
Oct 14, 2022Connecting with TAsLast semester I started a practice to help me better connect with my teaching assistants (TAs). It worked well enough that I decided to continue it this semester. …Teaching3 min readTeaching3 min read
Sep 17, 2022(Hybrid) SIGCSE TS 2022 ReflectionI thought I’d go back to the SIGCSE TS theme for this blog post, but with one of my conference reflections. Though it’s not really one of my classic reflections since this was my first hybrid conference ever, and I was also creating the hybrid experience! I also attended the…Sigcse6 min readSigcse6 min read
Aug 5, 2022Handling Late HomeworkI’m going to take a break from my hybrid conference series and write a post about my latest attempt at handling late work. So far, this system is my favorite, and I plan to reuse it almost unchanged this coming semester. …Teaching7 min readTeaching7 min read
Jun 21, 2022Authors’ Corner: A place for online authors’ Q/AThe Authors’ Corner was the brainchild of a SIGCSE TS 2022’s chairs meeting. By the time we articulated the idea, I didn’t know who contributed what to create it. The event aimed to enable authors to answer questions about their work online. The Authors’ Corner was primarily for online attendees…Hybrid Conference6 min readHybrid Conference6 min read
May 28, 2022Hybrid Conference: Questions to think throughHere is the first in my reflection series on running our first hybrid SIGCSE TS 2022. In this post, I’ll cover a more organized version of the questions I’ve sent to those who’ve emailed me directly about running a hybrid conference. I did my best to cluster them so it…Csed8 min readCsed8 min read
