Author Archives: Laura Zirbel

Letting Students Leave Discussion

By Laura Zirbel Summer session is challenging here at UCSB. Students take summer classes for one of two reasons: They are responsible and are foregoing the beach and video games to get ahead in their studies, or They failed the … Continue reading

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Sorting and Reading All Those Papers

By Laura Zirbel Last month, I wrote about how to get and read papers from the arXiv in Google Reader. Now that we have all these papers, and have filtered out the ones we want to read, how do we … Continue reading

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Keeping up with the arXiv with Google Reader

How to use Google Reader with the arXiv and use Feed Rinse to tailor an rss to your interests.

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