I’m one of those instructors who like to have students complete reading journals during the course of the semester. I tried it during the pandemic, but it didn’t work out nearly as well as I had hoped. Although if we’re being honest, very few things worked out as well during that first semester of COVID-19…
Read More Journals 3.0: Helping to keep the reading going (Moving from Moodle to D2L, part 2)There are so many reasons, but I’ll leave one here today: because our educational system is terribly affected by natural disasters. I’ll leave this here from the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/37koYaf
Read More Why is disaster rhetoric an important class?I’m mentioning two different pages that helped me solve a lot of problems when converting InDesign files that had been converted to PDF. PAC2021[1]It should be noted that the new version requires registration, although I’m not quite sure why. The old PAC 3 version does not. (the PDF accessibility checker, currently Windows only) highlights many…
Read More How to reduce many InDesign PDF errors in just a few steps.Yes, my previous post about Penn Holderness has inspired me to write this post about the old ICTM math contests. Let’s also be honest… this also serves as a reminder to do a “brain dump” and write down things I remember, as well as to give myself a reminder to find my old ICTM contest…
Read More A love letter about the ICTM Math ContestYup. Click-baity headline. I admit it. 🙂 Fun fact: Penn Holderness and I have something in common. We were both mathletes in high school. The Illinois Math competition was lots of fun. I competed in everything except calculator team. More details about that in another post… I’ll just say here that I’m happy to see…
Read More Knowing Math = $1,000,000