File the following in the "for a work friend" category of blog posts. The TL;DR of dealing with bed bugs is this: Let's imagine that your friend, who works with you but in a different building, has discovered a bed bug infestation in their work space. And, let's imagine that the employer is reluctant to […]
I like to do flipped classes with H5P plugins on Moodle. When I do so I set up "from" and "to" time restrictions to ensure that the homework is done during the class period. It doesn't matter to me if the students are in the classroom or not. What's important is that they're doing homework […]
Rose served this muesli at her bed and breakfast in South Africa. She told us about it while visiting with her mother, Bibiana and we've been addicted to it ever since. Here it is. BREAKFAST MUESLI This recipe makes about 8 cups. Ingredients Method Storage Cool & break up in air tight container. Original file: […]
To use Multitrack studio with an external MIDI keyboard you need to perform the following steps. James Andrew Smith is a Professional Engineer and Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of York University’s Lassonde School, with degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta and McGill University. Previously a program director in biomedical […]
I asked my students in 1st year engineering what kind of video software they used to record and edit videos for homework and projects. Here's the summary: Of these, iMovie, YouTube, OBS, Clip Champ (another link) and DaVinci Resolve are the favourites. I've found that there are other suggestions, including some on Reddit. Students may […]
Got an iPad or a Surface laptop that includes a stylus? Then consider getting a "pen loop" like the ones found in paper notebooks by Leuchtturm or Moleskine. It has an adhesive surface, making it easy to glue on to the back side of your device. It'll help keep your stylus firmly attached to your […]
If you're an EECS instructor here at York University, you can obtain a lists of students that are currently in your course, text files that are easy to download and review. They're outside of eClass and found in one of three ways: To access the lists on an EECS server like indigo1, use an SFTP […]
The York University community is hearing all kinds of messaging about restructuring these days and it's important to provide some context as to what is behind it and examples of other restructurings, like those that were forced on the City of Toronto by Mike Harris and Doug Ford that did not deliver on the promises […]
Piracy of professor-authored teaching material is rampant. I've written about it before. Students and teaching staff have uploaded my material to Course Hero and I'm not happy about it. In spite of requesting that they don't do it, they still do it. I write explicit footnotes in my documents saying not to do it, and […]
A few years ago, when I took on my new role at York University, I was doing a research project with Knix and my research assistant, Ken, told me all about his favourite computer pointing device. It wasn't a gaming mouse. It wasn't a trackpad. It was a trackball. Why do I think that Ken […]