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twitter And here is why we will not be submitting our future research on flying snakes to @J_Exp_Biol—hostile to preprints: http://t.co/ViSU0GZ8GP View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Announcing AeroPython!

Lorena Barba

I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1 It was Spring... Continue »

twitter @TripIt Can notifications be turned off during certain hours? The "on-time" msg at 2 AM for my 6 AM flight ruined my sleep! View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: the Wagner effect

Lorena Barba

The fourth and final student guest post explains the Wagner effect, and its role in animal flight. We hope you enjoy the series of posts from GW students of animal locomotion! The previous guest posts are: Pterosaur quad launch Pterosaur weight estimation Pterosaur wings and flight capabilities This post completes the series, which was inspired... Continue »

twitter RT @m_m_campbell: Winging it. Mimicking surface of dragonfly wings creates anti-bacterial material. http://t.co/0Bz7mgqIun #biomimicry #ins… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: pterosaur wings and flight capabilities

Lorena Barba

This is the third guest blog post authored by students of the course on animal flight for engineers at GW. The series looks into several long-standing debates about the flight of pterosaurs. The previous guest post addressed the problematic issue of estimating the weight of extinct animals like the pterosaurs, which have no living relatives.... Continue »

twitter RT @NLearning: MT @edutopia MT @TeachThought 10 Pros and Cons of a Flipped Classroom http://t.co/O1hUq4iP45 #flipclass #edtech View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: pterosaur weight estimation

Lorena Barba

The second in a series of blog posts by the students of "Bio-aerial Locomotion" at GW, and part of a collaborative and interactive study of some controversial issues about giant pterosaurs' ability to fly. The first student guest blog post (by Akash Druv and Alex Golding) addresses the quadrupedal-launch thesis of Prof. Michael Habib (and... Continue »

twitter A new paper by an alumnus of my tsunami-modeling school in Chile thanks the event's impact http://t.co/7dDrnwAxQf & http://t.co/CHrUw8hI5z View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: pterosaur quad launch

Lorena Barba

This is the first of a series of blog posts from students' course work for the "Bio-aerial Locomotion" class at GW's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The students explore several controversial topics about a giant pterosaur's ability to fly. Some background On Sept. 22, 2013, Prof. Michael Habib (who was a guest speaker in our... Continue »

twitter 7 stages of open education—open access, open content, open teaching, open credit/assessment, open degree, open data/analytics, open systems. View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A successful student-led (flipped) class on avian wings

Lorena Barba

A sign that I still need to trust students to be able and willing to lead their own learning is that I had 70 slides prepared for this class (most of them pictures, of course). A sign that this was a successful student-led (flipped) class is that I only got to project one slide—a single... Continue »