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I fully understand why this so-called “beginner’s” book isn’t. I love the “why and how” explanations of all kinds of methods and functions, but … guess what? I dont’ *already* know the backbone stuff to put that into a program that works because, guess what? I’m a BEGINNER. You know, like what the book *says* […]
April 25, 2011
So the student is wondering what in the world “cardstock” means. It’s explained to her — thick paper. However, when I add that “stock means it’s what you have, to use — and the card part means it’s thick enough to make a card out of…” a connection is made. Now it’s not just One […]
April 21, 2011
Link to your own blog on your own website… update said blog frequently for all those reasons… but *don’t* update the link even when you change to wordpress, and leave up the thing that says your last post was 8/29. Duck! I’m throwing tomatoes at myself and I’ll probably miss! Spent a minute blip of […]
April 19, 2011
Saw two separate references to this yesterday. Googled it and wonder where I’ve been. Hmmm…. http://millergd.blogspot.com/2011/04/higher-education-bubble-explained-bears.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-slow-collapse-of-the-ivory-tower-20110415-1dhje.html http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/higher_education?page=1&fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fmt%2Fthelatestbubble On a smaller scale, I learned again that good things happen when you least expect it — and that yes, sometimes being “disappointed, I expected more” is a good message to send. (Sometimes it says “I knew […]
April 17, 2011
… I can’t call you, ’cause you’re far beyond my cell phone range, brother Mike, but I do remember this would have been your 57th birthday had the blizzards of 2010 not buried you. Site of the day… from my bookmark list… http://maclife.mcmaster.ca/academicskills/online_resources.cfm (so’s I can remember to scope this out MOnday at work) First […]
April 16, 2011
So I’ve gotten the “beginner’s” actionscript3 book that the reviewers say isn’t for beginners. Here’s my hope: that I’m not *really* a beginner even if I”m not coming to it from anything of this era at all, and that the fact that he’s leaving OOP out of it means I’ll grok better. Online communities have […]
April 14, 2011
Did the second (repeat) presentation on negative numbers today. Pros: just doing adding and subtracting. Orton-GIllingham is right — when it’s a problem area, don’t put the confusing stuff togehter.Other smart thing (I think): *not* showing three ways to do it (e.g., both “moving” on the number line and the “diffference” on the number line, […]
April 12, 2011
… oops, all from the same pair of doesn’t-look-like-a-real-name site, but hey, at least the spambots seem to be finding me! First presentation today. It succeeded in what it was supposed to do. However, it is utterly, completely, NOT ready for … even late night infomercial, much less prime time. My thinking right now is: […]
April 9, 2011
I hang out a lot at cycling forums… bikejournal.com, teamestrogen.com… and I know that it takes patience to deal with newbies sometimes, because they don’t even know the language. I also know forums I avoid because the community is pretty snooty. I remember a yahoo group purporting to be about bicycle advocacy that was […]
April 5, 2011
… when the student stopped me in the hall to inquire as to whether a rainbow was analogous to the parabolas he was learning about… no, they’re circular; the arc of a ball tossed in the air would be parabolic (and I reckon tomorrow I’ll use some computer cable to show dangling cords ;)). It’s […]
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April 29, 2011
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