While maybe not reflective (on its own) of any massive change in my pedagogy since I started teaching, the growing size of each year’s lesson folder does reflect my growing tendency toward visual mathematical multimedia.
While maybe not reflective (on its own) of any massive change in my pedagogy since I started teaching, the growing size of each year’s lesson folder does reflect my growing tendency toward visual mathematical multimedia.
8 Comments
rhett
June 14, 2009 - 4:28 am -Maybe this is an example of grade inflation.
Christian Long
July 16, 2009 - 8:43 am -Been thinking about this for a long time. Actually come back to this post several times since last month. Keep coming back to a very simple thought:
An addendum that comes to mind today:
Makes you wonder what your file quantities/narratives (and storage possibilities) will be when you walk across that stage, PhD cap atop you dome and all. Hopefully Moore will continue to be proven true along the way.
Kari
August 5, 2009 - 11:35 pm -Love this, and also, wonder how you organize your files. I’m in my 4th year, my 2nd one using visual media heavily (especially in my AP Stats class) and I’m juuuust starting to run into, “Now, where did I put that file that I really liked from last January–no, wait, it was from February…” problem.
Dan Meyer
August 6, 2009 - 12:00 pm -I keep two subdirectories in each year’s folder, one for Keynote files and one for handouts.
The Mac OS does a pretty good job indexing the handouts so I can easily find “proportions” or “quadratic” as long as that word shows up somewhere in the file name or in the file itself.
Where I blow it is in my image- and video-heavy slidedecks. Unless I write down the content of the medium or the standard it addresses, it may as well be invisible to my laptop’s search engine.
Mr. K
August 6, 2009 - 1:42 pm -After stealing Dan’s idea of teaching and testing concepts, that’s how I now organize my folders: one top one for the course (i.e. algebra) with a bunch of folders of the form ##-concept where the number matches up with their grade sheet & the test numbers. Handouts & slide decks go in the same folder. I’d like to keep my test questions there too, but I don’t have an easy tool to pull the together for the actual tests.
Dan Meyer
August 6, 2009 - 2:14 pm -Smart, linking your name to your RSS feed. Hadn’t thought of that. (Totally off-topic.)
Mr. K
August 6, 2009 - 7:02 pm -Right. Now all I have to do is start posting again.
Sarah
August 7, 2009 - 4:40 am -Mr. K, please do. I miss you.