Where is everyone?
While I admit to being quickly on board most things (except the iPad, that is… that’s a tool for my 65-year-old Mom) I’m disheartened by the slow pick up of online learning networks (via Twitter, Ning, Facebook, etc) by my…
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Conway’s Law
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…
But I like the cookie…
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…
PodcampTO 2010
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…
My Olympics Contribution
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…
Online assessment
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…
Getting the word out on GeoGebra
Maria Droujkova has done some great work putting together some Elluminate sessions on Math 2.0… and she has more to come. On Saturday the 26th she had Markus Hohenwarter, the father of GeoGebra and the chief developer Michael Borcherds on…
Coaching
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…
Respect. It’s not what you think…
I’m an occasional participant at the Math Forum at the Fields Institute in Toronto. It’s a meeting of folks interested in math education research held monthly; I’d get there more but academic and other responsibilities often overlap. Even today I…
Setting up Ning
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…