life is a rum go guv’nor, and that’s the truth
I’ve been visiting recently with colleagues here at Utah State University discussing the initiation of a new project to help improve math education here in the state. If you were given an infinite supply of money, time, and personnel, what would you do?
If you were given a small amount of resources, what would you do?
Who [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2003 by joel
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Thanks to Doug for the link to an interview with Clark Aldrich.
Posted on September 8th, 2003 by joel
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I just ran across Lilia’s post about case study research. I’ve been thinking about my own and doing some writing this morning. I’m still looking at how to best analyze my data. I’ve looked at QSR N6. I am also familiar with and have access to free format text database software called Folio. What I [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2003 by joel
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Another issue I am thinking about is how to generate categories to characterize the different teachers I have worked with. Dr. Lancy, an experienced qualitative researcher, encouraged me to try sorting the teachers into categories just using my gut instinct. While this seems like a reasonable approach, my natural instinct is to try something more [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2003 by joel
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This past week I attended and presented (PPT) at the USU 15th Annual Instructional Technology Conference. Highlights for me were presentations by Sanne Dijkstra (PPT) and Wes Shumar. Dr. Merrill’s presentation (PPT) made me think as usual.
Wes’s Presentation
Wes gave a helpful overview of the main services of the MathForum. While I have visited there periodically [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2003 by joel
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My fascination with Tesselations continues. I just read Andrea’s post which pointed me to a tesselations site I hadn’t seen before: Tesselating Animation out of Japan. Other tesselation and wallpaper resources that I like are: Shodor’s Tesselate!, NLVM’s pattern blocks, Stephen Weber’s JTiling, David Joyce’s Hyperbolic Tesselations, Escher and the Droste effect, Rober Fathauer’s references.
Posted on September 3rd, 2003 by joel
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