Me and Dad - Teachers of the Year
A brief entry about how I’m grateful to have won a teacher of the year award just like my dad.
Posts
In which I ramble about grading, teaching, and/or tech. These are informal ideas that I might be working through as I “think in public,” and represent my knowledge/thinking at the time of their writing.
2023
How to upload assignments to Onenote Class Notebook
Some video directions for showing my students how to submit assignments on Onenote.
End of Semester Frequently Asked Questions
Below are answers to some frequently asked questions I get after the semester is over.
What is my grade? #I can’t talk about grades over email due to FERPA regulations. Your final letter grade is on MyWSU.
I got almost all of the question right on ___. Can I get credit? #Sorry, no. The grading is, on the one hand, draconian because it is “all right or it’s wrong.” However, every individual learning target has the opportunity to be revisited six times(!
Allowfullscreen: A lesson learned about asking students
I’ve spent the last week trying to improve my site’s presentation of material for my calculus students. What really irked me was how unprofessional my non-responsive images looked when I’d go in the classroom and see my site rendered on their phones.
So I added lightbox2 javascript library, I used Hugo’s automatic generation of smaller images (for faster load times), and changed the positioning CSS. I felt really proud because it looked great on the laptop (Safari and Firefox) and on mobile.
Non-traditional Grading: Ungrading
How does a student “get 75%” of a 50 minute exploration that even Achimedes never solved in his lifetime?
Non-traditional Grading: Mastery-based grading
Want students to learn more? Try grading differently.
2022
Getting started with Hugo for course content.
I wanted a “simple” way to write my class materials in Markdown. Hugo magically makes it a website.