From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices! open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective... *my small graduate "how to teach college" class thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices: Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk. TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all! We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?

This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down! On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class? Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own).. Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software! dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...

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This week's teaching post: students teaching students thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/students-t...

Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.

This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course. thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...

This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...

CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection. www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...

This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk. "I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end." thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

Our April e-Newsletter is out and it is loaded with content and announcements including new funding opportunities, a new workshop, a new cyberseminar and much more! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

This week's writing about Live Coding: This week I’m writing about nuts and bolts. How do I get students the code, what do we do in class, how do you like… do it. thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...

One of my classes went so poorly today (endless tech issues, mostly) that one of my students emailed to say I’m doing a great job 😂 Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”

This week's teaching post: How I set up for live-coding in class. "I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. " thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...

I love two stage tests: Overhearing the stuff students are organically discussing as they work collaboratively to get everyone a 100% on the 2nd stage of a two-stage coding-based exam so so so thoroughly dismisses any concerns I have with it taking up too much class time or not boosting learning.

This week in writing about teaching: Over the next several weeks, I'm going to explore how I handle teaching students to code in classes that aren't just about coding. This week: Why live code? thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...

This week's post: Course policies that are efficient and help students learn!

This week's post: Am I Codding Them? "If I were to make changes to my class that teach students life lessons but result in them learning less, then I feel like I’d be holding “teach life lessons” over “meet course learning outcomes”, and I don’t think that’s my role."

"Turns out students are pretty forgiving when you just say “hey, I was trying something I thought would be cool, but turns out it didn’t work! Everyone gets full credit on this quiz."" This week's post. How I handle non-punitive retrieval practice (quizzes) in a large class using Canvas.

The application window closes Friday for 2025 CUAHSI Virtual University faculty! Interested instructors must submit an application by February 28 to be considered. More information on the CVU program is available on our website. www.cuahsi.org/virtual-univ...

I plan to write about teaching for the next two semesters at this substack. I think it'll be an interesting/useful exercise and it feels cathartic right now. I'll keep posts short. Maybe check it out if reading about teaching sounds fun? Intro post in comment below.

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our February e-Newsletter was released today! Many announcements and updates to read including a message from our Executive Director, an upcoming conference, program application details, and much more! mailchi.mp/cuahsi.org/c...

CUAHSI is soliciting applications for 2025 CVU faculty! Interested instructors must submit an application by February 28, 2025 to be considered. More information on the CVU program is available on our website. www.cuahsi.org/virtual-univ...

Experimenting with editing lecture recordings to post companion videos for chapters at vt-hydroinformatics.github.io First one is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7J2mJrl33k Is this useful? Should I keep doing it?

Always fun to talk about teaching stuff!

Stop by the CUAHSI AGU exhibit booth (740) to meet the staff and talk water! #CUAHSI #AGU24

John's poster is this morning! Go find him!

Woohoo Logan!

Fun runoff gen and temp stream work at AGU led by students and other colleagues! Stream intermittency in NE-USA (Flanagan et al, Mon) Bedrock depth and stream intermittency (Morgan et al, Mon) Streamflow DEgeneration (Godsey et al, Wed) Runoff gen controls in the southern apps (Finks et al, Thurs)

For no reason in particular, I suggest checking out these two teaching-related presentations at AGU next week! Make your coding classes more accessible (Fri, Gannon et. al) What to we teach in Hydrology classes? (Wed, Kelleher et. al)

Can anyone suggest some good reading on incorporating LLM chatbot use into coding-focused classes? I have some ideas but want to read other ideas! #edusky

Researchers will present at #AGU24 on using passive seismic recordings at Hubbard Brook to understand how depth-to-bedrock affects headwater stream flow. This approach may enhance future predictions of stream network changes in post-glacial settings. #Bluesci #science 💧 🗓️🔗: bit.ly/AGU24_H11T16

Hi all, the starter pack below has been significantly updated now, and I will continue to update it further, whenever time allows. Once this starter pack is full (Bluesky currently allows only up to 150 people per starter pack), I will start another one and call it - Part 2. go.bsky.app/2h9ouZY

Tenure track job in Soil Water Interactions at Penn State, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management. Awesome group in an awesome place. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

This EGU blog post is a succinct summary of a lot of my teaching philosophy… check it out!

Agricultural tile drains, which are widely used across the Midwestern USA, are used to reduce waterlogging. In this new Env Res Letters article, Seth Adelsperger (IU PhD candidate) et al. show that they also increase the duration, frequency, and severity of streamflow drought. #climate #geosky 🧪

🚨 #AGU_H3S will be convening two sessions this year at #AGU24 One session will focus on centering DEI in the classroom and the second will focus on communicating science beyond traditional papers We are accepting abstract submissions through 31 July 2024 at 23:59 EDT #Hydrology #EarlyCareer 🧵1/3

That’s a wrap on year 10 of teaching! Psyched to finish it up seeing this comment on an end-of-class survey. “I am horrible horrible at science, so thank you for making me feel like i could understand it for once!!” That’s what it’s all about!

Are you working on hydrological processes or stream biochemistry? Interested in intermittent streams? Join our workshop! www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/de/hydrology...

Biggish update to my hydroinformatics course book! Everything is now in quarto, some issues fixed, and the geospatial stuff should be free of soon-to-be deprecated packages. vt-hydroinformatics.github.io

After some great feedback on my hydro modeling app, I added a new feature... Check out the "Saved Model Runs" tab! Compare up to five parameter sets! Please pass along comments/suggestions... cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/

Thanks to @CUAHSI for hosting my latest #hydrology teaching app. Run the HBV model for 700 global watersheds, play with parameters, optimize, and more! Use this in a class and/or are interested in helping me develop activities? Please let me know! cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/

There’s a hydrology teaching session at Water Sci Con this summer!! (AGU/CUAHSI hydro meeting) you should submit something so we can learn from each other! agu.confex.com/agu/hydrolog... #hydrology

Women Advancing River Research 2024 Lecture Series has free webinars the 3rd Thursday of every month! 💧🌊 Hear from leading female researchers on the latest innovations & discoveries in river science. Register here for all talks: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...