Month: January 2014

It’s been a really productive two weeks in North Dakota, installing our game in schools on two reservations, in tribal schools and public schools. I didn’t write this post to talk about that. Rather, in keeping with some of the really useful posts I’ve read about start-up failures, I wanted to share with you the

Today I’m getting around to day nine of the 20-day blogging challenge while I wait for The Invisible Developer to get out of the shower where he is curled in a fetal position whining about having to go outside when it is 14 below zero. Actually, he is probably just taking a shower, but lots

Day eight of the 20-day blogging challenge was to write about a professional read – a book, article or blog post that has had an impact on me. To be truthful, I would have to say that the SAS documentation has had a profound impact on me. SAS documentation is extremely well-written (to be fair,

There’s been quite a bit of discussion on twitter lately regarding generalists versus specialists. This article on KD Nuggets reported an even split in their poll numbers regarding whether companies try to hire a generalist who has knowledge of all areas required by a data scientist, as opposed to those who said that they hired

In the 20-day blogging challenge, the prompt for day seven was “Share a classroom management tip. What is one thing you do that works?” My initial thought was that I teach graduate school and if you are still having classroom management problems by then, either you or the student have a real issue. It happens,

I’m thinking I’m going to need to create a new category on my blog – here is Day 6 of the 20-day blogging challenge, which, if you are just now tuning in is (surprise!), 20 days of prompts on teaching, a challenge I decided to undertake for the hell of it, the same reason I

It’s now day five of the 20-day blogging challenge, which, if you are late to the party, FYI is an idea of Kelly Hines to blog 20 days in a month on topics related to teaching. “Share any tips for designing/ grading/ giving assessments.” I have two really good ideas for assessment, one of which

For me, being a woman in technology is like the ending of the Lilo and Stitch movie where he says Es mi familia. Es chica y rota pero es buena, es muy buena. (This is my family. It’s small and broken but it’s good. It’s very good. – The person who quoted this saw it

Amazingly, given my current schedule, I have made it to Day 4 of the 20-day blogging challenge. This was the  brain child of Kelly Hines as a way to get herself to blog more regularly. Today’s prompt was : Share a topic/ idea from class this week. What’s one thing you did with students this

The question for Day 3 is : “What is a website that you cannot live without? Tell about your favorite features and how you use it in your teaching and learning.” The first part is easy. Oh my God, I love, love, LOVE stackoverflow, a site where all of your programming questions are answered. It’s free