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So, I signed up for it already … and a huge piece of ickiness in math is … having to wade through “how to enter complicated stuff” before you even get to anything. I might recommend to students that they skip it. I’m looking at the “PreAlgebra” course which, by the way, gets only […]
July 31, 2016
there’s your mangled metaphor… hope it’s not apt. I”m going to test out being in the “https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1048084” course: contributing to canvas commons. I’ve spent very little time exploring Canvas up ’til now. I’ve joined several communities: Open Education (78 members), Instructional Design (about 1700), Math on Canvas (123 members) and Accessibility (191). […]
July 31, 2016
Actually I’m pretty good at that… better than I am at nailing down possibilities long enough to turn them into realities. My “manipulate integers with your fingers” app is “published!” as Beta — but it seems you have to be in google, and I don’t know how far, to actually test it at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.resourceroom.auntjamesintegers . […]
July 29, 2016
I sipped wine and skimmed the last 5 years of blogging. Alas, it didn’t really help with my “what was I doing, when?” as much as I’d hoped. I did find the elusive video of “counting stick multiplication” per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXdHGBfoqfw (I hadn’t been able to find it from memory). … and oh, my, I miss […]
July 27, 2016
For successful students, school already *is* a game you figure out, and grades are your badges. The more you expect success, the harder you’re willing to fight for it. The priority should be figuring out how to make the badges ‘reward’ appropriate things (so… that cut and paste powerpoint that worked in high school […]
July 26, 2016
…. the Adult Basic Ed conference is in Coronado Springs Disney in Florida. Do you have any idea how very, very much more likely I want to go to a conference in say, Richmond, Virginia? (Gee, any coincidence that a conference on open education would be at a location that’s a little more … […]
July 26, 2016
BrightSpace / D2L did a showing of their conference ‘keynote’ and … I was spared the cringeworthy “camp” theme of Canvas LEarning with coonskin hat. The talk itself was not so interesting and the movie re-started at one point, and then it cut off before it was over (so prob’ly it was set to […]
July 25, 2016
It’s hard to get math teachers to grasp the need for concrete grounding in the language of math. Maria Montessori used her methods on students who weren’t expected to succeed, period… and when they did, people started thinking about using what she did for students expected to do well… and gosh, there were cool things […]
July 24, 2016
This is my “I need something simple to be my app logo” for the Aunt James Academy. I also just wanted to use the Paths tool to make curves. I like the way that — at least until I stuck the “J” underneath — there’s sort of an illusion of people leaning into each […]
July 21, 2016
So! Enrollment is open for the “Instructional Design Service COurse: Gain Experience for Good” course in the fall (beginning September 12). We’re invited back and seems the folks at Canvas find the course worthy of giving us all free accounts. Now, it may be their standard “free for teachers” account so they’re not actually […]
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