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Monday, July 24th, 2006

One of the things I do regularly at work is lecture in undergraduate courses. Generally teaching students how to program in various languages.
This semester I’m in front of by far the largest class I’ve taught - around 250 students - which is turning out to be quite a lot of work. I need to be [...]

Teaching

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

I spent yesterday at a “Teaching and Learning Showcase”. Basically a collection of talks and discussions
about teaching and learning in our University.
An excellent day. The two keynote speakers were National Teaching Award winners and were, of course,
wonderful to listen to. My own little presentation went fairly well, and I had some good discussions with
people afterwards.
I’ve [...]