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The Side Effects of Technology Overload
I am co-presenting a presentation on “The Side Effects of Technology Overload” with another participant at Screencast Camp 2012. Below is a list of some articles on the topic that are meant to spark discussion within the group. I will share some notes on the discussion once the session is over. WebMD: When Technology Overtakes…
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My New Interest: Detroit Tigers Baseball
I want to take a minute to expand upon my current obsession with Detroit Tigers Baseball. From as far as I can remember, I never really had a hobby or anything that I would do regularly for leisure. Immediately after high school, I went to college. Every summer during college I came home and took…
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Jing and Geogebra
During the Summer 2012 semester, I decided to have my Math for Education students use Jing to send me a diagram of something that they were supposed to do using Geogebra. If you aren’t familiar with Jing, it is a free screen-capturing and screen-casting tool from the people at Techsmith, located in Okemos, MI. And…
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Learning from Ignite
If you don’t know what Ignite is, simply put, it is a format in which speakers are limited to using 20 slides and each of those slides automatically advances every 15 seconds. Thus, a speaker must get their point across within a maximum of 5 minutes. I learned about the Ignite format from past conferences…
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My First Commencement
This May I attended my first ever commencement as a faculty member. I really didn’t know what to expect. People I know who teach at other colleges told me to expect two things – that it would be a very enjoyable experience to see so many students walk across the stage and that it would…
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My Thoughts on Teaching Everyday Math
This semester I had the pleasure of teaching a fairly new course at my college called, “Everyday Math.” The class consists of several major units: Management Sciences (Graph Theory) The Science of Data (Statistics and Probability) Voting and Social Choice Fairness and Game Theory The Digital Revolution (Cryptography) Your Money and Resources (Interest) At the…
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Career Day at the Ballpark
On Thursday, May 17, I had the displeasure of being at Comerica Park for Career Day at the Ballpark. I can honestly say that if I would have known it was Career Day (shame on me for not checking), I would have exchanged my ticket for another game. When I got to the game, there…
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Summer Plans 2012
So, this is my annual post where I organize my thoughts on what I need to get done before the end of this summer. If I recall, last summer my plans fell into 5 categories. I will try to sort my thoughts for this summer in a similar manner. 1. Conferences: This summer the conferences…
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Guessing Ages Activity
This semester I tried a Guessing Ages Activity as a first day activity in my statistics classes. My version of the activity is adapted from page 11 of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks. I found this activity to be a good ice breaker for the first day of class. The students really enjoyed working…
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1.653*Pi Day
Happy 1.653*Pi (5/19) Day! Yes, I know that Pi Day was way back on 3/14 and that 2*Pi Day is coming up on 6/28. But celebrating 1.653*Pi Day is a little more fun, don’t you think? Here are few resources that you may be able to use in your classroom: Pi Day Activity…
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