Disruptive Pedagogy: Guerrilla Tactics in Large Classes

[EN] Guerrilla instructional strategy is when one instructor (the guerrilla) enters into their colleague’s class that is in session unannounced, sits for a while to gain insight on what topic is being taught, takes over and facilitates students’ learning for about ten minutes and then leaves the classroom. The strategy is disruptive as an unconventional approach to enhance student engagement and learning. The temporary takeover of roles is designed to be a surprise to students. In addition, the host is not privy to what the guerrilla’s plan is. In this paper, we share themes that emerged from the thematic analysis of our teaching reflections and our students’ experiences with guerrilla pedagogy. It was evident that students appreciated having two experts who have different instructional strategies collaborate in ways that captured their interests. The experience was positive and fostered a strong sense of respect and trust between colleagues. The “guerrillas” felt vulnerable as they implemented the strategyManokore, V.; Mcrae, D. (2020). Disruptive Pedagogy: Guerrilla Tactics in Large Classes. En 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. (30-05-2020):139-145. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd20.2020.10999OCS13914530-05-202

FDEMS Sensing for Automated Intelligent Processing of PMR-15

The purpose of this grant was to develop frequency dependent dielectric measurements, often called FDEMS (frequency dependent electromagnetic sensing), to monitor and intelligently control the cure process in PMR-15, a stoichiometric mixture of a nadic ester, dimethyl ester, and methylendianiline in a monomor ratio

Perspectives in resource management: A role for government: 603 case study for the Centre of Resource Management

pages 124-128, 135 missing from scanned documentIn January, 1988, the Minister for the Environment, the Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Palmer, announced a comprehensive reform of the principal resource management laws, continuing the process of review begun with the Town and Country Planning Act, Water and Soil Legislation, and Minerals legislation. A wide range of statutes are covered by the review, which has a stated aim of developing a statute or set of statutes which is "integrated, workable, efficient, and fair.". The resource statute review is one of the most important events in the field of resource management in the last decade. We chose this topic because we felt that we could contribute to the process of formulating new rules for the management of natural resources in New Zealand. Rationale for the reform was the focus of the initial public discussion. In an address to the NZ Law Society (22 March 1988), Dr. Roger Blakeley discussed commonly perceived deficiencies of the present system. These included concern with the excessive cost, time delays, and overlaps between statutory procedures which allow avoidable mistakes to occur and enable interested parties to proclaim the procedures unfair. Another criticism made was that the present statutes "do not allow for comprehensive consideration of the impact of [development] proposals on the environment", with the result that the environment is compromised.* The review in effect called for more efficient decision making procedures coupled with the wise use of natural resources. In order to isolate a manageable part of the subject, our group began by constructing questions we felt were crucial to the review. One of the most touted guidelines for the review was that it should be 'zero-based'. It appeared that this implied that all government intervention must be justified. This lead us to the question; "what is the role for government in the management of natural resources?

Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea

Heightened attention is being paid to the Northwest Passage, the waters that flow among the islands of northern Canada and that, in the next decades, may be amenable to commercial navigation. Most debates regarding the Passage's legal status focus on Canada's contention that it is its internal waters and the United States’ contention that it is an international strait. This article proposes that a designation of the Passage as Canada's territorial sea would be as legally robust as the internal waters or international strait designations while satisfying both Canada's and the United States’ political objectives

The Sizes and Albedos of Centaurs 2014 YY 49_{49} and 2013 NL 24_{24} from Stellar Occultation Measurements by RECON

In 2019, the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON) obtained multiple-chord occultation measurements of two centaur objects: 2014 YY$_{49}$ on 2019 January 28 and 2013 NL$_{24}$ on 2019 September 4. RECON is a citizen-science telescope network designed to observe high-uncertainty occultations by outer solar system objects. Adopting circular models for the object profiles, we derive a radius $r=16^{+2}_{-1}$km and a geometric albedo $p_V=0.13^{+0.015}_{-0.024}$ for 2014 YY$_{49}$, and a radius $r=66 ^{+5}_{-5}$km and geometric albedo $p_V = 0.045^{+0.006}_{-0.008}$ for 2013 NL$_{24}$. To the precision of these measurements, no atmosphere or rings are detected for either object. The two objects measured here are among the smallest distant objects measured with the stellar occultation technique. In addition to these geometric constraints, the occultation measurements provide astrometric constraints for these two centaurs at a higher precision than has been feasible by direct imaging. To supplement the occultation results, we also present an analysis of color photometry from the Pan-STARRS surveys to constrain the rotational light curve amplitudes and spectral colors of these two centaurs. We recommend that future work focus on photometry to more deliberately constrain the objects' colors and light curve amplitudes, and on follow-on occultation efforts informed by this astrometry

swcarpentry/shell-novice: Software Carpentry: the UNIX shell, June 2019

Software Carpentry lesson on how to use the shell to navigate the filesystem and write simple loops and scripts