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• PowerPoint: Why are PowerPoint images called slides? An explanation. — August 15, 2026
• Academia: There's very little that college faculty can do about enrollment and retention — August 10, 2026
• PowerPoint: Take time to make memorable connections — August 5, 2026
• Education: Job tasks vs. gym tasks — August 4, 2026
• Autism and vaccines: The problem of proving a negative — July 27, 2026
• Self-hosting was too much for me to handle — July 10, 2026
• How to be persuasive about name changes in adulthood — July 3, 2026
• Near retirement goal switch: more writing, no data collection — May 14, 2026
• AI: AI detector receives most useful award — April 8, 2026
• AI: How I'm effectively (I think) dealing with AI plagiarism in the classroom — March 31, 2026
• AI: How to build your own AI detector — March 31, 2026
• PowerPoint files are not notes — March 16, 2026
• AI: The strategy of AI proofing assignments isn't going to be successful — March 10, 2026
• PSPP for beginners has been updated — January 2, 2026
• AI: My artificial intelligence policy for 2026 — December 30, 2025
• Technology: ChatGPT is like cheese whiz: An analogy between artificial intelligence and ultra-processed food — December 26, 2025
• Teaching: How to add captions to existing videos in Brightspace D2L — December 26, 2025
• PowerPoint: Link shortening to speed presenter transitions — December 12, 2025
• How to make videos for the Brightspace LMS with closed captioning — November 19, 2025
• GVim: Setting automatic gvim textwidth for windows — January 23, 2025
• Statistics: Free web-based statistics calculators for teaching — July 17, 2024
• The declining value of writing in college courses — May 13, 2024
• PowerPoint: Animations to step through multiple stages of a complex figure — October 20, 2023
• PowerPoint: Explaining the difference between duplicate vs extended screen settings — October 21, 2021
• PowerPoint: Using annotation tools to increase interest during online presentations — March 22, 2021
• PowerPoint: Transparency in higher-ed PowerPoint presentations — March 5, 2021
• PowerPoint at the Psychonomic Society: Do students learn more from text or images? — February 2, 2021
• Excel: Free course calendar tool — January 11, 2021
• Experimental psychology: A single task approach to studying unconscious perception — December 15, 2020
• PowerPoint: A copying problem caused by making PowerPoint slides available online — September 25, 2020
• Statistics and the COVID-19 crisis — May 7, 2020
• PowerPoint: White text plus colored background equals invisible — April 7, 2020
• PowerPoint: A quick guide to adding multimedia to PowerPoint presentations — March 20, 2020
• PowerPoint: How to rapidly transform standard PowerPoint slides to an online teaching format — March 16, 2020
• How to remember protoanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia — March 5, 2020
• Publication: No implicit-explicit racial attitude correlation in a white sample from the rural south of the United States — March 5, 2020
• PowerPoint: Progressive reveal animations for complex technical figures — February 25, 2020
• Neil deGrasse Tyson quote on being an educator — January 30, 2020
• PowerPoint: The return of the PowerPoint critics — January 30, 2020
• PowerPoint: A rebuttal to 'It's 2020. Why are you still using PowerPoint?' and similar critics — January 24, 2020
• PowerPoint for general interest presentations: Images, not words — January 21, 2020
• PowerPoint: Background images that cause sensory failures — January 10, 2020