My New Classroom
September 7, 2010, 12:00 amSo I’ve talked about it before, but I was selected to be a guinea pig for a new 21st century classroom. I’ll be teaching two classes in this classroom: Geometry Regents, and Applied Math (second half of year is called Consumer Math). The Applied/Consumer math will consist of mostly PBL (project ba...
SBG – Question #1
August 26, 2010, 12:00 amIn mentally preparing for this upcoming year, my brain (clearly a separate entity from myself, ala pilkington) keeps returning to a couple of sticking points regarding a transition to Standards Based Grading.
Grades Go Down?
Two issues: should they be able to go down? and how do you put t...
Kodu
August 19, 2010, 12:00 amSomething cool out of microsoft?
Very neat simple “programming game”. Like Scratch, but 3d and pretty.
Its now available for PC (originally only xbox).
Devil’s Tuning Fork
August 16, 2010, 12:00 amDon’t know if you’ve seen this, but its a very cool student-made computer game whose premise is awesomely original. Devil’s Tuning Fork is a first-person game where you have no “vision”. The only way you can see is if you sound your tuning fork, and then you can “see” the sound waves as they bou...
Bricks (WCYDWT)
August 16, 2010, 12:00 amHow many pallets of brick,
do you need to make these,
or
this?
I’ll try this problem out for the first day of class in Applied Math. What extra information do they need?
Dynamic Geometry
August 9, 2010, 12:00 amDynamic Geometry Software
I have access to Geometer’s Sketchpad at school; its installed on a bunch of laptops and in a couple of computer labs. Geogebra is a similar program but I do not have much experience with it.
For the past 4 years I’ve done various “labs” with the Geometry students...
First 21st Century Project
August 2, 2010, 12:00 amSo this year I’ve been given the privilege of trying out my teaching skillz in a new 21st century classroom in our building. I’m still unsure about how deep of “trouble” I am with this classroom. The classroom is being upgraded with smartboards (a normal and a small), 25 or so budget laptops, idea...
Pumpkin – WCYDWT
July 1, 2010, 12:00 amThis is a What Can You Do With This from around Halloween. The new at blogging thing has afforded me a chance to put some old material up.
I live in a half fancy – half normal city, Saratoga Springs NY. The fancy side of the town gives me opportunities to see some things that most people do not....
Course Evaluation
June 29, 2010, 12:00 amSo this summer I have some curriculum days to spend at school, and as a break from creating a “21st century” project for Applied Math, I’m going through the course evaluation that my Geometry kids took on the last day of class. BTW, google forms totally rock for this. You quickly put together a li...
Robocode & Math
June 9, 2010, 12:00 amWe’ve used a open-source tool called robocode. Basically it is a game where you program robots in Java (or .Net). The robots battle in real-time and on-screen. It was a closing project (last 4 weeks) to our Intro to Programming class, and it was excellent. They really got into battling each other...