I ran across this a few weeks ago; now I’ve got some time to put some thoughts down: Conway’s Law…organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication…
One of Seth Godin’s recent blog posts (The Reality of Digital Content – lose the cookie, lose the fortune) has been reverberating in my mind over the past week. What happens when the people with great ideas start organizing for…
Another little conference this weekend; close to home, fortunately. It turned out to be a lot of same-old, same old though: The powers-that-be don’t want us to use social media, or if they do, they haven’t a clue how to…
Fortunately, we’re doing slopes in our MPM1D course and I knew I’d be away for Educon for a day so I continued the adaptation of a slope assignment from last year. Last year things were strictly 2D. First, they went…
Sorry… I forgot I was supposed to write things here 🙂 And thanks to David Cox’s recent post on ExamView to prompt me to return to writing … not to mention that I’m at Educon this weekend and everyone there…
As I mentioned in an earlier blog I was at the September meeting of the Math Forum; the theme for the meeting was coaching.There was considerable disapproval of the term coaching; that it set up a hierarchy of ability or…
School for us doesn’t start until September 14th but I’ve completed all my computer changes for the year (dual monitor, 1Tb hard drive & 500Gb network hard drive, N-router & card, new headphone-mic) and my nephew has gone back home…
One of the most successful tools I used this past academic year is Microsoft’s Live Mesh ( ), a cloud-based file-synchronization and desktop-replicator. I had signed up for it when it was in Beta and have never had a…
While I’m more than happy to rant again about videostreaming/taping conference sessions (MERU on Thursday?), especially after meeting in New York and hearing half the participants explain why they can’t attend the NCTM Annual Meeting in Washington due to hotel…
Well, my public challenge to my students two months ago worked… I got hooked on drinking way too much Diet Coke while writing my final Masters papers and couldn’t kick the habit. So, I told my class that if they…