Projects are due next THursday, but then it’s time to plan how to apply skills acquired and resources available to Make Something Amazing Happen. I ordered “Design for how people LEarn ” because the little cartoons over at http://usablelearning.wordpress.com/ are so inspiring. So much of “content area expert” stuff applies to math teachers. There’s a… [Read more…]
April 25, 2012
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/using-musical-notes-to-teach-fractions/ Multisensory
April 23, 2012
… So… I perused over to connexions, which I stumbled over on Facebook, so I must have “liked” it, so I got the video with our church choir’s horn player in it, mentioned as an example of somebody who could just plunk out a text, and get a few million hits. Suh-weet I’m again inspired,… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/04/20/29aera.h31.html ( Guess what? If students are struggling, but you give them algebra earlier, they do worse, not better in the course and further along. D’oh! You’d think that concepts built on each other or something! Mastering algebra is a “gateway” — but that silly word mastery… how inconvenient! Ze brain is coming up with… [Read more…]
April 17, 2012
So I was thinking of the gamification of math, and that a huge honking bonus could be given for shooting *down* the wrong answer – the Primary Misconception answer. And also of the “visual formula” – an animated icon that can be associated with a kind of math problem that steers you towards the proper… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
… so, the presentation went well enough at both conference and class to inspire me to dash off a request for being included in our grant request… but too late. (I wasn’t anything like ready until the conference.) However, I’ve graduated from “don’t call us, we’ll call you” to “call us again, later.” My animation… [Read more…]
April 9, 2012
I’ve been thinking about my 2D animation class Project 3, and how much like a bunch of disorganized almost paragraphs it is. I spend 30 seconds repeating a Salman Khan segment “introducing” percents, wherein he repeats the phrase “20 percent” a few times while he writes it down, because it is so patently obvious to… [Read more…]
April 6, 2012
THE journal had an article about Khan Academy and how great it is. Well, at least one commenter already duly noted that it has outdated pedagogy and is replacing sage on the stage with sage in a box… to which “Heather” in California replied that taht was just WRONG and that she loves Khan Academy.… [Read more…]
March 28, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Un9eAM3yzo My 2D animation teacher sent me this link about sine waves to serve as inspiration for my project about percents. 28 minutes long, it is; from a VCR tape from 1992. He included beautiful in his description and … it is. After I saw it, one of my students said I must have had… [Read more…]
March 26, 2012
I’m glad to say that I’m officially nervous about my little presentation, and that’s a good thing, because my natural tendency is simply to procrastinate and mediocritize. We’ll see if the end result is better.Since I have decided to Make The Annotated PowerPoint LIVE… yea, that’s what mildly terrifies me. It’s been encouraging for me… [Read more…]
April 27, 2012
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