Awesome Internetting from the last month.
New Blog Subscriptions
- Tracy Zager has been one of my favorite math voices on Twitter this school year and she’s now blogging. She’s also recently announced a fight with breast cancer and has requested that we “Please help me remember that I have thinking and ideas to share, and am involved in a world bigger than this right now.”
- Annie Fetter’s work at the Math Forum has always been impressive and it’s a total oversight I hadn’t realized she writes a blog until now.
- Tim McCaffrey and I share a lot of the same enthusiasms. He helps districts run lesson studies around three-act tasks and just started blogging about it.
- Matt Bury had positively invaluable commentary during last month’s adaptive learning discussions.
- Dan Burf, a/k/a Quadrant Dan, is a new teacher who has been using my old, old lessons, which is kind of fun to watch.
- Amy Roediger, whose writing on Classkick was extremely useful.
- Julie Wright is full of promise.
- Just Mathness is full of promise.
New Twitter Follows
- Patrick Honner: “I’m sure Benny would do quite well at this.”
- Bob Lochel, who is a regular in our Great Classroom Action features.
- Kelly Stidham, who lit up my blog this month with a comment about online professional development.
Multimedia Math
I make an open offer to my workshop participants to help them with their video editing. A couple of newcomers to multimedia modeling came up with these two tasks:
- Candy & Chips, for systems of equations.
- Apples for All, for unit fractions.
Great Tweets
Proofs are social documents not compiled code.
Press Clippings
- The Ontario Ministry of Education filmed an interview series with me and other math education-types in Toronto.
- An interview with a teen writer from The Santa Fe New Mexican.
- An interview with AFEMO, a Francophone group of math educators.
3 Comments
Dan Burf
October 1, 2014 - 3:59 pm -Thanks for the plug, it is great to be part of such an awesome community.
Matt E
October 2, 2014 - 5:02 am -1. Dan Burf is using your old lessons? So I guess it’s kind of like a Dan Re-Burf. *rimshot*
2. You’re only just now following @MrHonner? That surprises me. Enjoy.
Julie Wright
October 2, 2014 - 3:33 pm -OMG!!!! It’s thanks to you I got started on the MTBoS (I read your blog with great fascination after seeing your TED talk, and at some point you posted info about the MTBoS that I saved & came back to this summer after I took a tech based learning class), so this is so nice!
Glad you’re coming to Portland next week, too. I got my breakfast ticket early.