When I used pen - and -
paper logbooks (some people call them journals) in a previous undergraduate course, I saw that my students did not appreciate how much they learned from maintaining the logbooks; they were universally condemned by my students in their evaluations of the course.
When I switched to using electronic conferencing for assignments instead of
paper logbooks, however, every student — including those I knew did not like the course — praised it as one of the course's most useful aspects.
Not exact matches
I can not fully account for the difference between the
paper and electronic
logbooks, but I suspect that it has to do with (a) the fact that students read each other's entries and saw how much their colleagues progressed, and (b) the fact that I naturally respond at greater length when I type than when I scribble in the margins.
While a 14 % loss is not an insignificant amount, it's smaller than some of the changes in Antarctic sea ice recorded during the middle of the 20th century, as estimated from whaling ship
logbooks, the
paper says.
The standard
logbook entries made at the time contain no information about how the measurements were taken, so the cause was overlooked, says David Thompson, first author on the
paper and an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
The standard
logbook entries made at the time contain no information about how the measurements were taken, so the cause was overlooked, says David Thompson, first author on the
paper and an atmospheric scientist at the State University of Colorado in Boulder.