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I arrived in NYC today with Bob Heal, Jim Dorward, and Patricia Moyer-Packenham. Tomorrow we are making a presentation titled “Using Virtual Manipulatives to Support the Development of Mathematical Understanding” at the Teachers College, Columbia University. Daniel McVeigh has been an advocate of our work with the NLVM for a number of years and arranged [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by joel
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JCDL 2008 trip continued: On my way out of town I couldn’t resist stopping by the PSLC to attend a lunch meeting where Turadg Aleahmad and Ido Roll were giving practice talks for ITS2008. Turadg presented on an online authoring tool designed for teachers to use to create worked example math problems. I was surprised [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by joel
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JCDL 2008 trip continued: I’ve watched Alice with interest for a number of years and my children and I have played with it. Naturally, Randy’s last lecture renewed my interest. Wednesday morning I visited Drew at the Entertainment Technology Center that Randy co-founded. Drew was very kind to give me a tour of the place, [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by joel
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JCDL 2008 trip continued: In Education and NSDL: Past, Present and Future, David McArthur presented the future of the NSDL as a platform from which to build. This is the right direction to head… hopefully not too late. The NSDL should provide additional services beyond search, it should provide web services, architectures, and tools that [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by joel
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JCDL 2008 trip continued: I talked with Bryan Chapman about aligning content with standards (see his paper Exploring Educational Standard Alignment: In Search of ‘Relevance’). He pointed me to the CNLP’s Curriculum Assignment Tool and to the Teacher’s Domain cross walking service as potential sources of tools and providers of standards alignment. I have the [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by joel
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I recently attended JCDL 2008 to present a poster on OER Recommender with Brandon. As usual, the interactions with people were the best part of the conference. Monday night I enjoyed good dinner with at Lidia’s with David Tarrant and Max Wilson, PhD students from the University of Southampton England. Max’s dissertation work is on [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by joel
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For sometime I have envisioned a web browser that allows me to search and browse all of the web-pages of the world and view them in English. I figure there have got to be lots of cool things going on in the non-English speaking world that I would be interested in but I never hear [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by admin
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In summary: write tests, run tests continually, design modules so that they are open for extension but closed for modification (you can add functionality without changing the existing code) refactor periodically, clean up your code before it stinks. Here are some interesting quotes:
“It was too easy to make a mess in Smalltalk” Ward Cunningham (Dynamic [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2007 by joel
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Saturday I attended and presented at the Utah Association of Math Teacher Educators (UAMTE) meeting in SLC and benefited greatly.Catherine Lewis of MILLS College presented an excellent keynote on Lesson Study. Catherine illustrated the process using video vignettes and made a strong case for its benefit. Resources she suggested for further learning about lesson study: [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2004 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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