I don’t update this site nearly enough. Sigh. Anyway, two bits of new. First is that I have a new publication out with some awesome collaborators relating to work we have done with the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and use of the InTeGrate teaching materials. You can check it out here.

Also, in other really exciting news, the dinosaur textbook project that Mary Schweitzer, Elena Schroeter, and I have been working on is set to release on November 18th! It’s hard to believe that what started out as a wild idea between Mary and I in 2013 is now actually going to be a published book. I don’t think we could have pulled it off without bringing Elena into the project, and we are all really happy with the final product. It took many years of hard work that really ramped up around 2017-2018, and we were only a little over a year late in getting it to the publisher.

We also put a lot of work into revising Mary and Elena’s dinosaur course, and created a ton of learning objectives, classroom activities, and formative and summative assessment questions. Our goal is to make these resources available for instructors who wish to use the textbook in their own dinosaurs courses. To facilitate this, I’ve created a companion website for the book, teachingdinosaurs.com. It’s a work in progress, but hopefully will be more fully developed soon!

If you’re interested, you can check out the book by clicking through the image below.