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I’m taking a MOOC on Canvas where they know my real name 🙂 and… it’s the second week and I have to decide whether or not to take it as it is “written” — to require 2-3 hours per week — or … what it needs to do it justice, which is double that, […]
February 24, 2016
Yes, the stuff that was on the literal radar but not the media radar has come charging forth and is swirling and dumping wet snow. Tractor trailer is all over median strip on the Interstate to the west, power lines closing lanes elsewhere. I still just *might* gear up and take the Gazelle out […]
February 22, 2016
First, weather: we have no “special weather statements” up. Weekend temps were springlike – fifties! Today 45! Sunny and beautiful!! The front page of “weather channel” has niceness today and tomorrow… tomorrow night: Rain/Wind Late. I know what I’d be thinking. Might be wet Wednesday. Find raingear. (Not umbrella […]
February 22, 2016
Okay, it’s really, really hard to explain privilege to people who have it. They even, I think, want to understand it. I think this example almost quantifies it. So this friend of mine is taking a course that’s been *really* demanding the first two weeks. Gobs of reading, interactives, discussions, stuff to write (and from what […]
February 18, 2016
Saw this nifty thing in Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/encouraging-neurodiversity-in-makerspace-classroom-patrick-waters It’s rather in contrast to one of the videos in the MOOC on ed tech I’m dabbling in, where a guy extolled “cognitive tutors” and stated that learners follow the same path, if a complex one (and, oh, that nobody has time to actually hone tutoring skills so […]
February 15, 2016
I watch Christopher Woodin’s videos and have copies of his books about teaching math in structured, multisensory ways to “whole to part” learners… and I “follow” him on twitter, tho’ his singular tweet was the kind of tweet you make at a faculty meeting or conference session when they show you what that Twitter thing […]
February 11, 2016
I shoudl probably go ahead and “Download Windows 10” because Windows 8.1 really, really stinks. Yes, if I save a Word file, I have to standon my head and do contortions to prevent it dumping out into “OneDrive,” which sometimes I can access, and sometimes I can’t. I really want to find website files on […]
February 11, 2016
The “watch” activity The “solve” activity https://youtu.be/4b-8DD829RI (guess only one embeds?) and the “label” activity. I have similar ones for subtracting but they’re not in this version yet… https://youtu.be/BSXkyjisZQs
February 10, 2016
It’s for that class. Okay, to update! Our “assignment:” To post about a worst case intervention… we were encouraged not simply to provide barriers to learning but to demonstrate Bad Design. We were encouraged to include a visual. I’d just seen somebody extolling the virtues of an “intelligent [computer] tutor” that included saying […]
February 6, 2016
… the files, which is a step forward. The Working Thing with title “Jan29” is now on Ay-soos, the GREENECK and the Transcend and the Camtasia flash drives and now the cloud knows where they are. Since my next Thing TO Figure Out is how to manage versions of things in GitHub, it’ll soon be […]
February 27, 2016
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