Lecturer at UBC-Okanagan, CMPS Department. Physics PhD, interested in STEM EDI initiatives, learning analytics, science communication and data science!
Joined February 2009
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Excited to finally share my Jupyter Book course template!
firasm.github.io/jupyterbook…
In just 3 steps you can have your very own course website deployed and ready for your Jupyter Notebooks and markdown content! 😅whew!
Thanks @ProjectJupyter and Executable Books project!
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We’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10.4) to further confirm that we do not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent. blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-serv…
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✨Introducing our 2023-24 Contributors! Can't wait to learn with these educators! ✨🤩 Check out more: teachersgoinggradeless.com/2…
I have a few Bluesky invite codes available for folks in the #Altgrading sub community !
Let me know…
Super exciting to see this out!
@simonpbates and I co-authored two chapters 😁! So much fun.
I’m published in a book!!
I'm absolutely delighted to be able to reveal the book cover for my forthcoming edited collection - Effective Teaching in Large STEM Classes. Look out for leaflets at @ViCEPHEC
And thank you to the wonderful selection of authors who contributed:
ALT Book cover which reads IOP Series in Physics Education Effective Teaching in Large STEM Classes Edited by Anna Wood. Icons show light bulb moment, thought cloud, pencil and paper, talking heads, question marks and speech bubbles.
I made it in to Bluesky (thanks to @AstroDino)!
Will help any #altgrading Twitter friends migrate when I get invite codes 💪🏽
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The UBCO community is saddened to learn of the sudden death of Devyn Gale, a School of Nursing student.
Devyn, working as a B.C. wildland firefighter this summer, lost her life battling a wildfire near Revelstoke.
For more, including resources: bit.ly/3OcIbgC
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↕️ Sorting: an often overlooked, but absolutely crucial aspect of charts.
Good sorting (and grouping) can make it so much easier for your audience!
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This is much needed ! Thanks for everyone maintaining this.
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Bad news: RWU lost a brilliant teacher and scholar in @hsmiceli due to their own stupidity.
Good news: You might be able to hire her! (You'd be VERY lucky.)
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Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action
Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed
The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE
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Let's take a moment to appreciate those first two responders to scheduling polls, who do the work of collapsing like 100 possible options down to 2-3 options that the rest of us select between.
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Our new paper on "Lessons from debiasing data for fair and accurate predictive modeling in education". #machinelearning models may greatly improve prediction fairness (66%) with only a small sacrifice (<1%) in prediction accuracy. #AI #learninganalytics sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and KUDOS to my friend, colleague, mentor, and hero @cleander for winning the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award! 🎉
Keep being amazing!! You're a source of genuine inspiration and wonder!
academic.ubc.ca/academic-com…
Congrats @wsmcneil !!
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"AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. "
artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-…
