2.5 I snagged a URL so I can tell people something easier to remember. You can now just go to www.hydroinformaticsbook.com

2. The book is now hosted by @cuahsi.bsky.social! I've been working with them for a couple of years now to use it as a pilot for a system to host more similar content. It feels like the book has a more permanent home AND has a more formal update architecture that I am less likely to break (ask me..)

Two and a half exciting updates to my hydroinformatics book (or: data science and hydrology?)

1. The materials all use the updated USGS dataRetrieval package now, yay!

Www.hydroinformaticsbook.com

More below

The Current State of Undergraduate Hydrology Courses in North America: A Path Forward Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

@hydrochrista.bsky.social @domciruzzi.bsky.social, and I asked hydrologists across the country for their syllabi so we could investigate how instructors were teaching hydrology courses and think about the future...

Here’s what we found + suggestions

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Can I get students to read... something? The war for attention is real, can extra credit power help?

Can I get students to read... something??

In which I may be setting myself up for scheduling hell at the end of the semester and/or a failed experiment in new ways to engage with my students...

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Course memes return! Students bring the heat in meme competition.

Better late than never... fall 2025 course meme competition highlights: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What student comments have taught me about good teaching. You don't need any magical special sauce...

When reflecting on my student course evaluations after this semester, I thought discussion of some comments that frequently pop up might be helpful! Featuring Liz Lemon and Gandalf.

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What graduate students learned in a teaching class Three semesters of reflections say...

What grad students found useful in a course about teaching… open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

This week's two posts are about Connecting concepts and Practicing. Can you guess what Ron Swanson gif I managed to fit (maybe) into one of them?

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Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions!

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

More about the app Paolo referenced, and that I am excited about (!) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks for the shout out Paolo!

I’m excited at the ability of AI tools to get people started on apps like this. So far, I’ve found it takes some coding to make something more full-featured, but who knows what that’ll change..my guess is you could already tell this to use a specific existing model

Teaching about... Prediction Prediction as a learning enhancer

Yesterday in my college teaching class we discussed predicting as a learning strategy.

Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?

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Teaching about... Exams! No one ever has opinions about exams.

A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree.

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Teaching about... Assignments etc The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon

From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!

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Graduate Teaching Class: Teaching Methods What is active learning? What is effective teaching?

What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective...

*my small graduate "how to teach college" class

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Curriculum type things Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college

Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago.

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The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices:

Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.

TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!

We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?

Thanks Brian, awesome to hear you’re reading!

Graduate Teaching Class: Week 1 & 2 Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching

This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down!

On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Thanks for the shout out!

Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class?

Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..

Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!

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What I told graduates Four things...

I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Code in Class: All of the topics Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.

Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...

❤️

Students teaching students Peer teaching is powerful!

This week's teaching post: students teaching students

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/students-t...

Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.

Integrating coding into an existing class How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material

This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...

Assessment and Retrieval Practice in a Code-Heavy Class Some ideas for assessments that help students learn

This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...

Cover of the CUAHSI 2024 Annual Report with a collage of photos depicting groups of people in varying learning environments.

CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection.
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