That Isn’t a Mistake – dy/danBut the vast majority of the work we label “mistakes” is students doing exactly what they meant to do. We just don’t understand what they meant to do. Teaching effectively means I need to know what a student knows and what to ask or say to help her develop that […]
Year: 2018
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-09
Soviet big red missile button switch, surplus – Varusteleka.comSoviet big red missile button switch, surplus Deleting array elements in JavaScript – delete vs splice – Stack Overflow****use splice instead delete will delete the object property, but will not reindex the array or update its length. This makes it appears as if it is undefined: Why […]
Photography – #165
View this post on Instagram #phomag_tour condensation as filter A post shared by @ twwoodward on Dec 6, 2018 at 11:48am PST View this post on Instagram #phomag A post shared by @ twwoodward on Dec 6, 2018 at 4:29pm PST View this post on Instagram Strange lights, strange shadows A post shared by @ […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-02
?³ #wcus on Twitter: “TinyMCE was never tying to be a layout tool, like MicroSoft Word does not try to be PowerPoint. The Block-Based editor is trying to be both a typing tool and a layout tool. Today, I think it fails at providing a fluid interface to TinyMCE was never tying to be a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-25
A Business With No End – The New York Times**This article is amazing and has all the things. Olivet University was established in California in 2000 by an evangelical pastor named David Jang. His global religious community — often referred to, simply, as “the Community” — has been the subject of numerous articles that allege […]
Digital Survival Skills
This was a presentation the other day on basic skills to survive in today’s digital jungle. The summary description is below but it feels kind of pompous when I read it now. I will likely revise it in some way in the near future. I do like the core idea that there’s a lot of […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-18
Photos: The Ubiquity of Smartphones – The AtlanticWorth looking at. from David C […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-11
OrcasoundCentered within the summertime habitat of the endangered southern resident killer whales, Orcasound Lab is also a good place to listen for ships passing through Haro Strait and boats traveling along the west side of San Juan Island. In the fall you can hear humpbacks, and in the summer male harbor seals vocalize nearby. Brooklyn […]
ePortfolios: Competing Concepts
I talked to some VCU people about ePortofolios1. It’s a conversation I’ve had any number of times over the years. I think that experience is leading to a better understanding of what’s going on structurally and the space we have to navigate competing interests. I’m also in a better position to show how certain technologies […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-04
Why you should never ever eat a garden slug | TreeHuggerAccording to news reports, 19-year-old Sam Ballard caved into a dare to swallow a slug. Tragically for Ballard, the slug came with the roundworm parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, AKA the punk-rock-sounding rat lungworm. While when mature these parasites take residence in rats, in their youth they […]