Do the impossible
Posted in technology, what can you do with this on Sep 4th, 2009
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaack! After a long break, the longest I’ve had in the four summers since I began teaching it’s time to get back in the swing of things. I joined in the scheduling of my small school (110 kids in 7/8 grade). After spending time understanding the beast and more time writing macro code for [...]
Posted in everything else, technology on Jun 23rd, 2009
My summer plans do not involve much blog-oriented reflection – at least until August. I’m writing this from Paris and will be on this side of the pond until then. Freedom in the summer is a perk of the trade which I greatly appreciate and intend to take advantage of. If anyone is interested, I [...]
Posted in everything else, smart board on Apr 5th, 2009
Anybody wish they had an easier way to overlay a grid of arbitrary size over images? Maybe even plot lines/points/polygons over them? I used to wish that, but today I realized that my wish has come true. Yet another reason to love GeoGebra! Dan asks So let’s say I know what a meter looks like [...]
Posted in algebra 1, class design, technology on Mar 31st, 2009
Last year, I finally resolved to end the “wandering eyes” problem during tests. It seemed like there was no way to ensure that nobody would sneak a peek during tests, and when kids had the same test they would easily be able to cop an answer from their neighbor and it would be really really [...]
Posted in algebra 1, class design, geometry, technology on Feb 14th, 2009
I stayed home yesterday because of and woke up again today with a sore throat. So, being the fish that I am, I swam around on the internets for a while. I don’t remember how I stumbled on it, but I ended up at Kirby Urner‘s 4d solutions and read through quite a bit of [...]
Posted in smart board on Feb 8th, 2009
Wednesday morning, 8:15am: explained the activities to my sub and went to math meetings down the hall. End of the meeting 11:20: I’m asked if there’s anything I need for my classroom. I say no, but if there’s an extra smart board laying around I’ll take it. 11:21am: Other math teacher has a smart board [...]
Posted in technology on Feb 1st, 2009
The title is yanked directly from this video I’m intrigued.
Posted in technology on Nov 25th, 2008
I worked on this project last year so that I could better use the data I was generating from quizzes. I wanted a way to do targeted remediation to a large number of students in an individualized way. Getting students to teach other students was the best way to reach the largest number, so I [...]
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