Like most teachers of abstract ideas, I whiteboard a lot. I also use screen broadcasting to let students see my screen while I mouse, click, type, and talk. It’s important to do both of these things and to switch between them. In fact, I rearranged my classroom to make it natural for me to be [...]
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5 Sep
Harper’s Index, Mr. Chun Edition
Hours elapsed between installing Parallels for unrelated reasons and using it to take a screenshot to email to a student in response a request for help: 3
Links sent to me today by friends which I have re-sent to coworkers as if I were an all-powerful data gathering machine filtering for information pertaining to their specific [...]
18 May
Discussed Today
1. How the genius of the original Nintendo system was that any storyline could be put with any style of gameplay. For example: Super Mario Brothers is a platformer in which you have to save a princess. And you’re a plumber.
2. The reasons that, despite not knowing the origin or contents of two [...]
12 Feb
Solid State Miracle
I just put a 1GB Ativa USB stick into the washing machine, ran the cold cycle, fished it out, and you know what? It works just fine. I’m not sure if putting it into the wash while still inside my pants pocket was the secret to its survival, but I wouldn’t recommend trying. [...]
22 Nov
Pie
If I was going to make a pie today, I’d make it a modular pie-cosahedron. Mmmmm. Hedron.
Whipped cream on your buckyball? Dodecahedron a la mode? So many tasty ideas.
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