Del.icio.us links added
We are finding more possibilities than we can feature with a certain measure of reflection, so you will find a new “Recent Del.icio.us Links” section on our sidebar. We’ll include a line or two regarding where our thoughts were going when we encountered the link. The rest is up to you. As always, we hope this helps.
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In my district we have 12 middle school people who focus on tech integration (one at each school). We all create lessons and share resources with our teachers but have not until now worked together very consistently/effectively. So at our meeting on Friday we hammered out an idea to what is outlined below. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and while I do fear I am being naive in some ways I have high hopes for what this might become. There’s only one lesson there right now- but it’s been a busy weekend for me :). The current incarnation- ITRT Plans a blog for posting good lesson plans in a semi-structured manner including documents (rubrics, instructions, notes, whatever) samples of student work from the lesson a little reflection on how things went, ways to improve or how to change things I’m using a lot of images if possible and installed the snap.com preview script. Visuals are often a deciding factor for me and I imagine the same will be true of others. if someone uses or adapts the lesson I’m hoping they’ll add their experiences and how they changed things Lessons will be grouped according to subject and tagged according to VA SOL and keywords. a group del.icio.us account since a number of us have our […]
Stepping Up: Non-Programistan/Non-HTML Exhibit Page
Ben called me on the fact that Exhibit really was too much for most teachers/humans. It seems no one wants to know HTML these days has ever wanted to know html. So my “no programming” claim was weak and as a true patriot of Non-Programistan I had to step up. Here is a spreadsheet where you can put in some basic fields. It builds you the Google Spreadsheet headers (you have to cut and paste them in) and with a little simple work on your part in the spreadsheet the HTML is made for you. You have to cut and paste it into a text editor and save it as html. I made this page with it. Now, this version if fairly rough but it works. The whole thing is limited and will only do the sortable table view but it’s a decent start. There’s a lot you could do to expand this to allow mapping, time lines etc. as Exhibit is built to be modular. I might have to learn enough programming to make this work in a web interface some day. Step 1 You put in the data types, headers etc. you want. Step 2 After pasting in the URL headers into a Google spreadsheet you publish it and copy the XML feed and paste it into the […]
Gravity Forms + Mermaid JS = Decision Flowcharts
I was building something in JSPlumb the other dayI’ll get to the blog post eventually. and it prompted Tim to ask if we could build flowcharts based on survey responses so that respondents could see their choices in context. I thought we could and it led to this simple exampleGive it a shot if you feel like it. It is on a demo site. that I think will have lots of interesting and broad applications down the road. This is one of those things that is halfway to an actual answer. It gives you the foundation to build specific things pretty quickly without a lot of technical knowledge but it does require attention to detail and understanding some logicalNot code, but certainly not conversational writing. This is the kind of semi-code that I’d teach people rather than assuming everyone will need to write javascript or objective C. writing patterns. My semi-coding audience may be mostly in my mind but it works for me and maybe for our ALT Lab R+D group. If this ends up expanding well, it’s possible Jeff will make it into a more substantial solution plugin like he’s done so well with a number of other things that started out this way. Foundational Elements This uses Gravity Forms and a little plugin I made to add the […]