Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Roll The Dice

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s something to make your assignment collection more interesting. I routinely assign five homework problems. Then I collect one of them. I decide which one to collect by rolling the dice. http://homepages.findlay.edu/trusty/dice/ Of course, there are six possible numbers. I … Continue reading →

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The Magic Bullet – A Plan

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Scott McLeod has a post about Blogging vs Life. His main question – how do we learn all these new and incredible technologies without sacrificing our lives and families? Let me rephrase the question. How does a first grader learn … Continue reading →

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Backups

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

John Schinker has a post that talks about the reliability of hard drives. I read the study by the Google people, and I can vouch for their results. I may not have the thousands of drives that they have, but … Continue reading →

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remarkableohio

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Since my podcast last week, I have become much more interested in geotagging (thanks John). I have added a few pictures of the UF campus to the Flickr map: http://www.flickr.com/map Search for “Findlay” and click on the biggest dot. Refine … Continue reading →

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File Size Matters

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

It just happened again. One of my students, working on a video project tried to email me the final version. Fortunately, the TWO GIGABYTE file was too big to be accepted by the UF email server. I did receive the … Continue reading →