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I’m not sure I have the readership to pull this off as effectively as Dan has, but I’ve been thinking about this one for awhile and suddenly found a great example of it literally in my front yard¹. Just to clarify: Those are the snowbanks flanking both sides of the driveway. When I shovel I [...]

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Annual Report 2008

Posted by: | January 28, 2009 | 4 Comments |

I’ve taken Dan up on his Annual Report Contest this year. Luckily I’m just dorky enough to keep track of a few data sets of interest to me. I was also lucky to have a snow day today- otherwise these would probably not be complete. If they’re a little hard to read click on them [...]

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Rookie mistakes

Posted by: | December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments |

I sat down to grade my students’ chemical reaction primer artifacts this weekend. It didn’t take me long to realize that as a class we weren’t done with these projects yet. Clearly I hadn’t built in the necessary support for the project’s format. I seemed to do pretty well supporting the information (as described previously), [...]

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Interesting Finds, Vol. 2 (dy/dan edition)

Posted by: | September 6, 2008 Comments Off |

Forgoing the list of several items, this item deserves a post of its own. geometry.mrmeyer.com Dan Meyer has posted his entire geometry curriculum online for everyone to see. He included his presentations in PowerPoint, Keynote, and .pdf format, and has .pdfs for all of his handouts. In my opinion, this takes some real huevos (if [...]

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Ready for day 1

Posted by: | August 26, 2008 Comments Off |

Despite the problems I’ve been having lately with my new position, I feel (mostly) ready to go for day one. As part of my continuing crusade against my previously poorly designed presentations and handouts, I decided to peruse what my blogosphere (the one in my aggregator) had to say about the matter. I found plenty [...]

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Interesting Finds, Vol. 1

Posted by: | August 21, 2008 Comments Off |

I’m going to attempt to post interesting bits I’ve found recently, both as a way to share with the community things I’ve found, and as a way to reflect upon items I’ve found. I won’t go as far to guarantee I’ll do this weekly (I’d like to), but whenever I get together 5-10 interesting items, [...]

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That uncomfortable place

Posted by: | June 13, 2008 | 5 Comments |

I’ve just wrapped up a class in which I was required to participate in online threaded discussions. I was hoping for some good discourse on curriculum theory and development. Instead it turned into a lot of, “Why, yes, I agree with you completely,” and “I couldn’t have said it better myself.” I found myself becoming [...]

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“Fun Facts”

Posted by: | May 31, 2008 Comments Off |

I’ve taken to adding in “fun facts” to my class. I’m not sure if I got this idea from Dan Meyer in the first place, or if I stumbled upon it independently and then had my habit reinforced by his enthusiasm for a little fun unbound from the “standard” curriculum. They Pro-crast-i-na-tion: I’ve seen all [...]

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