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Signed contract received yesterday (dated yesterday). SO things could really actually get interesting soon 🙂 In the meantime … times tables! And hte usual Saturday reading. From our Developmental Ed Council meeting, which was about the law being proposed to basically eliminate developmental education and put everybody into college level courses “with support.” I didn’t […]
December 15, 2018
Goal for this break: to figure out a conscious system for working on the assorted projects. I have been sometimes actually successful at letting others take care of students for an hour or two. Today’s task is to look through our Cobra Math course and plan out a four week version of a “class.” In […]
September 9, 2018
I just finished a four-week course with LINCS (adult ed community): Universal Design for Learning –math. I’d thought that the biggest best thing is the book on UDL — but I was only on page 21 of it. The videos and stories of folks “in the trenches” are informative and inspiring. I like the design […]
August 21, 2018
Quality matters, peeps. So there’s an exercise taking survey data and filling in a chart w/ percent and number of degrees on the little circle. 3/26 students had some opinion about math. THis translates into 0.115384615… or 11.5%. Students are to round to the nearest tenth of a percent, and to the nearest whole degree. […]
June 19, 2018
http://nrocnetwork.org/resources/events/2018/06/reflecting-on-a-decade-of-oer-evaluating-efficacy-beyond-cost-savings/ So! I couldn’t attend this b/c I was roaming around on the Grand Illinois Bicycle Tour (sigh, the replacement for drowned phone should arrive tonight). Ahrash Bissell is the moderator, from NROC and he’s talking to Dr. Lisa Petrides who founded ISKME which runs oercommons.org and Dr. David Wiley of Lumen Learning . NROC folks […]
December 3, 2017
Wow. Just… wow. It seems that asking a question without a screenshot is a mortal sin. I asked what “BP” stood for — thinking, (forgive me!!! mea culpa and I mean that, to a degree)… that BP was a common heading to the spreadsheet thing about each element in your app. I […]
November 5, 2017
Geogebra. “Lists” are a lot like arrays, tho’ the first element is list(1) not zero; zero will get “undefined. No, I still have no idea how to actually SET THE STUPID X AXIS TO THE SIZE I WANT. I mean, I know how to set it but it changes if I so much as move […]
October 28, 2017
Call me an idiot but no, I can’t figure out how to actually do jack with Geogebra. “Make a new worksheet” gets me a lovely front pagey thing where I give it a title… and then… I have to add something. There is utterly insufficient guidance. Okay, does this mean I don’t want to make […]
September 23, 2017
A person interested in prepping for the assessment came in… and the “I can’t help my kids do their homework!” comment happened. “They don’t have a text! HOw are we supposed to help them?” They would just go on the INternet and “Google the answers, but that’s not very good,” (and yes, usually […]
August 23, 2017
I’m part of a project curating Open Educational Resources for adult ed. NCTM has an awesome site with awesome lessons on it. Oops, too bad so sad, the terms of use are totally “ours, ours, ours, do not fold bend or mutilate!” (Remember those punch cards, elders?) That approach is why I don’t care […]
March 2, 2019
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