Posted by busynessgirl | Dec 31, 2007 | Digital Graphs and Diagrams |
One of my assistants requested advice about creating an inequality graph (with grey shading) using PowerPoint, so I thought I might as well share it here too.The trick is to use a Freeform drawing object, and then send the...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 29, 2007 | Classroom Life |
One of the pictures from this Inspired Classroom Wiki got me thinking about our college learning spaces.I’d be willing to bet that at least 80% of college classrooms in the U.S. are set up for the “sage of the...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 26, 2007 | Digital Life, Organizing Your Digital Self, Productivity, Reading |
This is from a group called Common Craft. It explains how to begin taking advantage of RSS feeds to manage all your blog reading. I’ll confess, I’ve started using Google Reader to manage my blog reading. If I...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 25, 2007 | Edge of Learning, Future of Higher Ed, Futuring |
Today we’re watching Karl Fisch’s presentation called 2020 Vision.It is kind of a fluff piece in that it is a completely fabricated “graduation speech” for the class of 2020. However, he does a really...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 23, 2007 | Classroom Life, Digital Life, Studying Social Media |
Fair use is an interesting and thorny topic. Here’s a video montage (using Disney Films) of a short course on Copyright and Fair Use. Very clever!
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 19, 2007 | Algebra, Assessment for Math |
We’ve been having a rather spirited discussion in my department about a common final exam for one of the math courses, and the need for an easy-to-score learning assessment (i.e. multiple choice). The two biggest problems...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 19, 2007 | Calculus (MV) |
Jonathan Rogness (UMN) has a great collection of mathematical visualizations for multivariable calculus that run on Java. I don’t teach multivariable calculus (and hope never to have this experience), but I always love...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 16, 2007 | Algebra |
This game demonstration is from the MIND Research Institute, a non-profit education research and publishing organization, that recently received a $500,000 grant from Cisco to develop game-based instruction for students in...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 15, 2007 | Algebra, Math for Elem Teachers, Probability and Statistics |
This little 15-minute TedTalk, Arthur Benjamin races calculators from the audience doing the calculations in his head. He is very entertaining and I think students would enjoy the presentation, since they are often under the...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 12, 2007 | Digital Literacy, Future of Higher Ed |
A reading assignment for today: The Age of Distraction: The Professor or the Processor? by Michael Bugeja (published in The Futurist magazine)The question that Bugeja poses: Are digital distractions the cause of lowered...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
So, you’re probably thinking… what the heck has Maria been doing the last few days? There’s been no blog post since Friday! That’s unheard of.Well, I now know it takes approximately four 16-hour days of...
Read MorePosted by busynessgirl | Dec 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I received a handout (via a Listserve) giving information about the software and hardware to “create online lectures from your in-class lectures.” The idea is, that with a computer plus over a thousand dollars in...
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