I was asked on FB whether animation was a new career direction. I love it when writing finds stuff out. I’d posted the animated movies we’d seen that day, which were, for once, a total diversion from “balloons attack!” or “White guys make rude body noises and we all laugh!” To wit: http://www.nfb.ca/film/sand_castle and http://www.nfb.ca/film/black_soul/… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
“Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3″ seems Butte College is talking about its issues with math. They use terms like ‘momentum’ so it sounds like they’re reading the same stuff we are. Now to flipping my conference…
February 13, 2012
Next project? Make a math lesson using stop motion pictures of people, clay, whatever. Think: Claymation, perimeter. And, in the “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!” category: it is really a challenge for me to think visually… which means that I”m less likely to make things visually complicated, and that’s a good thing. Yea… [Read more…]
February 11, 2012
I have no idea whether this will go anywhere or not, but our next project in my 2D animation class is to make something with pixillation. Instead of *drawing* things in frames and making a digital “flip book” in Flash (where, just as in olden days, I draw the frame a little further along each… [Read more…]
February 2, 2012
I left my Echo Pen at home. That’s a bummer because a math teacher and I just colluded and came up with what I suspect will be a nifty way of helping students understand square roots. We were recognizing that students don’t attribute meaning to the radical square root sign of my cute animation project… [Read more…]
February 1, 2012
Ya know, I think I might be getting a little better at the affective part of this job… seems to be the week for hearing students say self-affirming things. Okay, the guy who expressed that he felt better about math than he had in years hadn’t been working with me — but had simply dropped… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
Yes, htere’s still a lot of spam (I think the *majority* of which is generated at the $40 version of what you can get for free for learning subitizing) but there are gems among the clutter, including http://rebecca-robbins.com/2012/01/25/your-math-homework-is-not-a-hungry-lion-strategies-for-cultivating-math-skills-and-curiosity/ Last week was crazy-hectic but I’ve got my Tuesday project done and handed in… except that yes,… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
… this is from my “parkland” blog — that I’m going to dedicate to Parkland specific stuff. I think I rather like this activity for REALLY learning slope: http://larkolicio.us/blog/?p=787 – pulling off the getting the watches and the setup ready would be the challenge for moi http://engagingideas.net/frcc-student-learning/math/ describes discovering that 10% of the students in… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
Links to my pictures for Tuesday, CSC 186: Green Sign Go Monday Night Ride (cues: two wheels and upright, familiar thing that moves, eyes forward and/or on others in scene Step to it! (cues: lack of balance, interaction with others in the image) Hauling Logs (cues: sweat & exertion on faces, imbalance, and presence of… [Read more…]
January 15, 2012
I gotta say the Google Gargantuan isn’t impressing me these days. There’s just something about a link to an “article” about math anxiety that has big fat google links on top and the barest skeleton of a web page template… oh, and there are three more of the same article with slightly different templates, and… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
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