Robert Talbert, PhD

I've added links to my accounts on Scribd and Slideshare to the web presence page. Scribd and Slideshare are like YouTube for documents and presentations,  respectively. Enjoy!

I've updated a new copy of my CV to reflect some changes in the publications section. My two MAA Reviews articles are now officially published (although you have to have an MAA membership to access them after Labor Day), and my paper for the ICTCM 2008 proceedings was officially accepted and will appear when the proceedings come out in March 2009.

Enjoy!

For some reason, the links to my CV, teaching statement, and scholarship statement on their respective pages were giving a "file not found" error. I have reorganized those pages so that there is a little description of the document on top, then the Scribd-embedded version of the document, and then a new download link at the bottom. This was an issue with how Weebly does file transfers. Everything works now.

Of course if you can see the document embedded in the iPaper viewer, you can download a PDF version using the viewer, as well as search and print directly from the viewer. Some folks may have issues with that viewer because it's Flash-based.

I've added a Statement of Scholarship which can be viewed, searched, downloaded, embedded, etc. over on the new "scholarship" page. Or, click here.

Sometimes these kinds of documents are called "Research Statements", but since my view on scholarship is broader than the typical notion of research (read: "publish or perish") I decided to call it something a little more inclusive of the sorts of things I do.

I've just added a Teaching Statement (a.k.a. Statement of Teaching Philosophy) to the site here, and you can access on the newly-created teaching page. You can view it using the Scribd viewer -- a nifty little web gadget that also lets you save, print, and search the document -- or download a PDF straight from the link.

The Statement of Scholarship referred to at the end of the Teaching Statement is still under construction -- hopefully it will be done by the end of the week.

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Right now I am working on creating two more pages for this web site, one devoted to Teaching and the other to Scholarship. I am working (have been working for some weeks now) on creating a brand new Statement of Teaching Philosophy and a Statement of Scholarship. It's been five years since I updated my teaching statement, and I have actually never drafted a Scholarship statement! Or maybe I did when I was coming out of graduate school, and it's therefore horribly out of date. I've been publicizing the rough drafts of the new teaching philosophy at my main blog, Casting Out Nines, in articles you can find here and here.

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