JP Gannon
@jpgannon.bsky.social
Collegiate Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. Catchment hydrology, data sci, teaching, undergrad research. bikes. he/him http://vt-hydroinformatics.github.io
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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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...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Can I get students to read... something?
The war for attention is real, can extra credit power help?
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February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Better late than never... fall 2025 course meme competition highlights: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Course memes return!
Students bring the heat in meme competition.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Better late than never... fall 2025 course meme competition highlights: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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 student comments have taught me about good teaching.
You don't need any magical special sauce...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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.
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
What grad students found useful in a course about teaching… open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
What graduate students learned in a teaching class
Three semesters of reflections say...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What grad students found useful in a course about teaching… open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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?
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions!
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
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.
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions!
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
More about the app Paolo referenced, and that I am excited about (!) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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
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
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
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
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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Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
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Teaching about... Prediction
Prediction as a learning enhancer
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October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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?
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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... Exams!
No one ever has opinions about exams.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree.
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!
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Teaching about... Assignments etc
The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon
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September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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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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*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
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Graduate Teaching Class: Teaching Methods
What is active learning? What is effective teaching?
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September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...
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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Curriculum type things
Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college
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September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago.
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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?
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?
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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?
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!
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks Brian, awesome to hear you’re reading!
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...
On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...
Graduate Teaching Class: Week 1 & 2
Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching
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September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...
Thanks for the shout out!
July 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thanks for the shout out!
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!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
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!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
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...
dx.doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
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!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
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...
What I told graduates
Four things...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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...
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...
Code in Class: All of the topics
Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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...
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.. and if you are teaching about hydrologic modeling and need a smooth on-ramp, highly recommend @jpgannon.bsky.social HBV model: cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/
Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!
Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!
Run the HBV Model for one of 700 CARAVAN Watersheds
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May 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This week's teaching post: students teaching students
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Students teaching students
Peer teaching is powerful!
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May 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This week's teaching post: students teaching students
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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.
Here's the book! It's been adopted by a bunch of departments for new grad students and is all about infusing mutual respect into the fundamentals of how we run our classrooms.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching
Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training—despite being a substantial part of the...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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.
This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.
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Integrating coding into an existing class
How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material
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April 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...
This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...
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Assessment and Retrieval Practice in a Code-Heavy Class
Some ideas for assessments that help students learn
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April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...