Nature reports today that 1200 students at the University of Texas, Austin are part of an experiment in which they are using Amazon’s Kindle 2 instead of print textbooks. At $359 a pop, one can only hope that the textbooks themselves can be downloaded at a reasonable cost. The new Read more…
Publishers do a wonderful job of obtaining reviews for our work. I don’t know how I would manage without these underpaid (in my view) but hard-working people. Still, nothing beats meeting people face-to-face to discuss their reactions to your books. Just about one year ago (wow, time flies), I met Read more…
Spring break for those of us on quarter system is short–very, very short. So I am happy to report that the process of gearing up for my first term using i<clickers has not been nearly as scary as I expected it to be. I am especially relieved, given that I’m Read more…
Thanks to Cindy Giambalvo, our El Corral bookstore manager at Cal Poly, I learned that my second edition Discovering Biological Psychology textbooks were now on the shelf for Spring Quarter. So Mr. F and I ventured into the bookstore to see how they look. Well, as you can see below, Read more…
I stress about writing tests, but rarely use the test banks that publishers provide. Most of the questions are simply unusable, because they’re poorly written, too picky, include “all of the above” or “none of the above” options (a cop out, IMHO), or are just outright wrong. Nothing challenges an Read more…