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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(March 12th 2009 at):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> These are some AWESOME resources, Matt. Thanks for making them available for our use" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Thanks for all your great info yesterday at the Sac Cty Office of Ed! It was a great day!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Can you give me an example of a compelling hook that leads into a system of three equations? That’d be great." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> How about, you\'re meeting a potential date for coffee. There is 15 minutes on the meter, how much do you put in, and why? <br><br>1. Some may want an maximum amount of time, they will go for the best bargain within the 1 hour time frame;<br><br>2. Some may want a minimal amount to have an excuse to cut out (gotta leave, my meter\'s running out), they will go for the minimal outlay.<br><br>3. Door number three, anything one can imagine.<br><br>You could do a unit on the economics of dating, and include your &quot;How I met your mother&quot; video showing the hot vs. crazy girlfriend linear relationship, and choosing a text plan based on your annual report graph." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I tried taking this picture over the summer (in a moment that was very Dan-inspired). Only my photos didn’t turn out well and I didn’t have a compelling hook for students who rarely see parking meters, unless I turned it into a city vs country thing. In which case, Dina’s story and selling the point of becoming a savvy consumer just might work. Combined with other situations that would encourage shorter time choices. (Two minutes for a date, not so much.) Shopping? Library visit? I’m not sure where meters are located, especially in relation to what your students do.I like the dating-themed unit, though I’m not convinced I could pull it off. (Confession, I was searching the archives a few weeks ago for the bubble graphs of where single people live. Include it too.)" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I agree that having students learn to deal with noise is extremely valuable. Being able to explain or figure out why the math they know doesn’t seem to work is very important. But sometimes it is difficult to get through all the noise in the time restrictions of a class. Getting students thinking about error in measurement is extremely valuable for life outside the protection of the classroom. Getting them to think of ways to reduce error in measurement. Getting them to realize how accurately they need to measure. Is the closest inch good enough? Why?I am going to try to tie this back to the students science classes. How do your science teachers deal with this concept? Where does error analysis fit in your school?" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Can I take this down to the primary grades? During a conversation on It\'s Elementary show (http://edtechtalk.com/ItsElementary), two die-hard constructivist/constructionist type teachers were talking, Maria Knee and Colleen King. These folks do Logo and robots with kinders, that is how hard core they are. They were discussing online vs. real math manipulatives. Both used to HATE the idea of online manipulitives, and thought the kids would have to &quot;physically&quot; handle them (ala Montessori) to understand and use them, but they\'ve come to the conclusion that virtual manipulatives are just fine. The kids move them around and use them, and derive meaning from them." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> As a physics teacher I want the real life lack of neatness for at least two reasons.1. Often it can spark great discussions about why our real lab results are not as perfect as the mathematical models. As Jason implied above it can also work in reverse. Sometimes my students are amazed at how close we can get using such simple tools.<br>2. I appreciate the challenge of designing challenges or labs that can be done with simple equipment while still obtaining good results. So kids think its cool. Others would clearly prefer to either digitally simulate the lab or at least automate the data collection.Of course after we take the data I have the students use Excel (or Logger Pro) to fit the curve and determine, determine relationships, and ultimately derive the main laws." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> @Dan, the lack of critique in last annual report was not directed at you, and I think I was taking some responsibility for making you &quot;gun shy&quot; What I would suggest and did suggest at the time of the &quot;Vicki&quot; thing was ask people to volunteer, which you\'re doing now. So will you accept my apology, and let\'s move on?<br><br>Look, I don\'t think there was a lot of critique from the entrants in the last contest. I think we did a great job of supporting each other, but there wasn\'t a lot of critical commentary (constructive or otherwise). We\'ll have to agree to disagree.<br><br>Who would do this? Do you really want to sign up to critique my work and the work of others who volunteer for this? You couldn\'t fit in actively judging the annual contest (no critique, btw). Are the likes of myself and others at my level of practice where we can offer worthwhile critique? <br><br>I think @TeacherC\'s query is a good one, we can\'t do all our own photography, and remixing can be good, what is worthwhile? You use flickr a lot and so do I, what are we looking for? I think you have some good points when you talk about finding stuff that is not too slick, and is well done aesthetically, but maintains authenticity." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Not seeing earlier comment from dh laptop, so I might have triggered your spam filter:<br><br>Here\'s my stuff:<br><br>I missed audio on the last training I did, but it was bollixed from the word go (the lab computers were crashing, you just would have heard a lot of cursing). Still, I was teaching some PowerPoint techniques to district teachers, so if my preso is sucky, I\'m corrupting 15 of my peers:<br><br>Beyond PowerPoint<br><br>@Dean: THEY loved your video, on PP Extreme Makeover<br><br>Here\'s CUE which includes audio:<br><br>Blogging in Elementary<br>I\'d love quick feedback on this one as I\'ll be repurposing this one for an Eluminate session this week.<br><br>Tech in Tutoring<br><br>With most of the presos I actually present off a PP, which means the fonts, etc. are slightly different. The audio is missing my florid hand gestures, but otherwise, it\'s almost like being there. Hack away dy/dan readers...<br><br>On feedback at trainings: I always have a Google form survey for feedback. In general, people are shy to say stuff face-to-face, so the few survey responses I get back are more honest than what folks will say to my face." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Alice, you don’t owe me an apology. Back then and right now, I was far less offended than I was befuddled at how tricky “criticism” is in the edublogosphere. I mean, I read left-wing and right-wing political blogs which quote and cite and disagree with and revise each other all the time as a matter of discourse. That is how bloggers there shape ideas. We need that here.Does this kind of discourse require prohibitive amounts of time? I don’t think so. Tom Woodward posted some slides and a transcript of his talk yesterday and I issued some thoughts this morning.As an aside, from my perspective, if I’m Tom, and I have spent an hour (or whatever) converting slides to images, resizing and posting them, and adding the transcript, I don’t want people to by shy about criticizing my work. What a lousy return on investment to post a slidedeck and not get, at the very least, questions about my process. I can’t be alone in that perspective, craving the kind of treatment I gave Vicki Davis.I think your last line does justice to the distinction between good stock photos and bad stock photos:stuff that is not too slick, and is well done aesthetically, but maintains authenticity." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Fair enough – I apologise for assuming you were being sarcastic.I’m a little leery of registering a domain for everyone, particularly when there’s horror stories of sites like Lumberjack’s Exchange (www.lumberjacksexchange.com – eep!) out there. Teacher Skills Bank could possibly be read Teachers Kills Bank (which is grammatically incorrect, but still kind of funny). Just don’t look up teachertrade.com… trust me, it’s not what you think it is." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Dan, thank you for your posts. You have given me a lot to think about. I am/have been working at making my presentations better and you have provided me with inspiration. I agree with Jen,”I despise 99.5% of powerpoints that I see. I hate having my time wasted. I hate being read to. I hate seeing pictures that have little or nothing to do with what I’m learning about.”<br>The problem is lack of skill and time. I really like the idea of an educational skills bank. Another solution is what you have been saying, asking people for criticism of presentations we post and learning from that so we can develop the skills needed." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Nice. Like the washout background images. I like your running chart with map better than Feltron\'s bar graph. Awesome work, that fits together nicely." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> my year. This year my slides — hastily done — don’t tell a coherent story. Claire Thompson Ben Wildeboer Luckily I’m just dorky enough to keep track of a few data sets of interest to me. I was also   By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » My Annual Report Contest II: Final Entries on February 3, 2009 <br> at 8:25 pm" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I’m gone. If you only want “whoo you’re great” comments, I can’t help you. Some of your observations were interesting, but I can live without them." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Damn, I didn\'t even TRY to start that fight! Just try to be helpful, cripes. Anyone else I can help piss off Dan?" );
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