Posted by busynessgirl | Apr 18, 2008 | Presentation Tips |
I’ve been following the Presentation Zen blog for a few weeks now, and I particularly like the idea of using minimal text and an image to provide something for the eyes to rest on while you listen to the presentation. If...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Apr 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If you haven’t watched any of Michael Wesch’s videos, you really ought to take a look at these three:A Vision of Students TodayThe Machine is Us/ing UsInformation Re/evolutionAssignment: Read this 4-page article by...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 29, 2008 | World of Adventures |
Posted by busynessgirl | Mar 28, 2008 | Algebra, Future of Math, Teaching Math |
Roger Schank (author of many books about education) has written an interesting piece called “Just the Facts, Ma’am” that actually cites no sources for his “facts” and attempts to lay out an argument...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 28, 2008 | Algebra, Data Visualization, Edge of Learning, Find and Use Data |
Some of the really stunning visuals that Neil Turok used in his TED Prize talk were graphics from the website Worldmapper. The idea is that you start with a standard area map of the world, and then create cartograms (or...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 27, 2008 | Equation Editors, Teaching Math |
I was discussing MathType with my officemate (who is primarily a chemistry instructor), and we got on the topic of Lewis Dot diagrams. She complained that its always been difficult to insert Lewis Dot diagrams into text, and I...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 19, 2008 | Algebra, Math for Elem Teachers |
Earlier this year I shared an application with you that would play a song based on the digits of the decimal expansion of pi. After I suggested that playing rational and irrational numbers could be a nice learning activity, one...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 10, 2008 | Algebra, Calculus (SV), College Algebra |
This great graphic is from the New York Times (2/10/08) article entitled “You are what you spend” on the spread of consumption of a variety of consumer goods. A link to the two graphics in the article can be found...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Mar 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The 2008 TED conference is going on in California right now, and so I find myself watching some old TED talks … wishing I were there and pining for the new talks that will begin appearing soon.So here’s an older TED...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 26, 2008 | Classroom Life, Equation Editors |
Consider an English class prior to word processors. You wrote a sentence. You rewrote the sentence. You rewrote the sentence again. You did this for the whole paper until you had it right. The process looked something like...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I usually don’t use this space to rant about other blog posts, but I really have to do it in this case.I am a reader of Dangerously Irrelevant (which is geared towards K-12). This week, their guest blogger is writing about...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Feb 24, 2008 | Math for Elem Teachers, Teaching Math |
Once you learn the algorithms for doing multidigit subtraction, then it might be difficult to remember why it’s hard to learn. If you’re teaching math for elementary teachers, this video might help your students to...
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