Author Archives: Marion Jensen

So if there is one thing that my Ph. D. program has taught me it’s the mind boggling confusion of statistics. First and foremost is the whole correlation and causation idea. Just because two things happen together, doesn’t mean that … Continue reading →

More podcasts than radio stations. I don’t even listen to the radio anymore. Unless I’ve forgotten my mp3 player.

I was talking to my sister-in-law/editor, and she brought up some good questions about how a group might write collaboratively online in a wiki. It made me think more about how such a group might be organized. In my mind, … Continue reading →

I was talking to my good friend Shelleylyn the other day and she made an interesting comment. She said that whenever people told her what kind of music they hated, it was almost alway rap or country. I realized that … Continue reading →

We just published a new course at USU OCW. It’s a course that I actually took at the university last fall. It was a very enjoyable course, and when we were done we had not only learned all there was … Continue reading →

Om Malik’s blog is reporting that Google has purchased writley, a nice web app I came across several months ago. It’s basiclly a simple word processor, but it’s done online, and you can collaborate with anybody else. Similar to a … Continue reading →

I am not sure if I should grab my belly and laugh, or slap my forehead and groan, at this article in the Deseret News. From the article: “The students thought they were getting everything because I was putting PowerPoint … Continue reading →

Japan has a new fastest computer. It does 59 trillion calculations per second. Which means you can do your taxes in about, oh… 8 seconds. But you’ll still do them wrong. And you’ll still be audited. And you’ll still owe … Continue reading →

So I walked through my campus’s career fair today. I wanted to see what my options are just in case I fail my comps. I had about 7 conversations that went like this. Them: So, what is your major? Me: … Continue reading →

I contacted the instructor who sent his English students to the fiction remix wiki, and he said these were the instructions he gave to his students. My Honors English class (ninth graders) has a weekly discussion board assignment. Many of … Continue reading →