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I have several moodle courses I set up in order to do staff development. I’ve opened them up and made them available to guest access.
http://www.mykweaver.com/moodle/
They include how to make a movie, fund raising, Gridworld (AP Computer Science) and some stuff on programming robots.
Let me know what you think.
With the growing trend of people flocking to get diabetic alert dogs I have also seen a growing trend of bad ideas from people training their own diabetic alert dogs. Recently I was on an online forum and a young woman was asking questions about alerts for her diabetic alert dog. I know she said she wanted the dog to alert by barking.
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I can't agree more. Sad part about using a beagle for a diabetes alert dog is that everyone DOES expecct her to bark at me.
Yes, beagles can be noisy. The ones that are ignored. I do have a very noisy beagle, but she's a rescue, and had to learn one volume to survive, and hasn't unlearned it.
I have another beagle, Macy, who makes noise when she is unhappy.
However, Dulce rarely barks, and when she does, I immediately drop everything to see what is going on.
Alert dogs should not be barking.
I remember when 8 bits was a lot….
Yes, I’m old.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading this machine almost since the day I got it. I went to the local Microsoft Store and was going to get a Surface Pro, and they talked me into this machine. They didn’t have the 8gb version, just the 4 and I’ve been thinking of the upgrade for a while.
Good news about waiting – it was cheaper.
I’m still thinking of upgrading the solid state drive but that still scares me. You have to take off the keyboard, unplug it and take off the case.
This was bad enough.
Of course, the longer I wait, the cheaper the drives get. They are down to about $80 for a 126 gig. I know because I had it ordered from Amazon and chickened out.
There are lots of other sites that will tell you how to do the upgrade. I watched a video and then followed written instructions.
So here is a movie on how I found and added a recipe to OneNote while I was watching a show.
I like to cook and I like to use One Note to keep track of recipes – why? Because then I have the recipes on my phone when I am shopping. I’m a very spur of the moment kind of person and if a key ingredient for a recipe is on sale, I’ll decide to make that. So here’s a typical recipe I have saved:
Note that there I even make a shopping list. Which I make manually after pasting the recipe. The beauty of this, is that I can use SnagIt to get the recipes off the screen and paste the into OneNote. OneNote has some of the same tools.
The best part, is once the recipe is synced, it’s available on my phone.
If you don’t cook, there may be other information you run across frequently that you would like on your phone AND your other mobile devices.
The last few days, I’ve spent getting organized, and getting things together I have put off forever.
Some of it has been prompted by the move from SkyDrive to OneDrive. I have a Windows Phone, several Windows 8 computers and love the fact that I can get to everything in the cloud quickly and easily. So I’ve been moving things around and getting things to where I can actually get to them.
I’ve also had an app forever, that I didn’t completely understand, but am getting it now. Tasks by Telerik. Unfortunately it just doesn’t work right, and keeps generating new tasks. I’m going to complain and then stop using it. Tasks by Appamundi seems to work much better, just wish it had a Windows 8 version for the desktops
I’ve also been cleaning up my Office365 account and my Hotmail account so that everything is available from the phone. It feels nice to be organized.
There are days I wonder why I got into education.
I got an email that said that the proposal to allow students to take Computer Science instead of a foreign language passed. <sigh>
In my opinion and I said it before – it’s wrong and against any ethics I can think of. I’ve asked two people who supported and they said: it will attract students who don’t want to take a foreign language. Frankly I’m a proponent for foreign language education but high school is too late. Of course, high school level courses aren’t taught for people who want to be fluent, they are taught so people can read literature in the original language.
Never a bad thing.
Attracting students who don’t want to take a foreign language – not a good thing.
Several states are looking at proposals that allow Computer Science to be substituted for a foreign language.
I’ve looked at this from several points of view.
First, as a curriculum designer, and I have looked at both the Language TEKS and the Computer Science TEKS and I see that the share very few objectives.
Second, as a former foreign language student and as a computer scientist. I took 4 years of Latin in high school, my choice. I thought it would be cool to be able to read some of my favorite literature in their original language. It was. I also majored in computer science. Learning 4 years of Latin did not help my ability to write software. While it makes it easier for me to spell, and I understand the rules of language better.
I have challenged advocates of this proposal and they support it to increase the enrollment in their classes, as students don’t want to take a foreign language. Personally I find this offensive that anyone would want to take away from someone else’s program to promote theirs.
I don’t expect that most students take a language in order to read a book in its original language, but most students don’t take 4 years of a language, they only take one.
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I teach XBox programming but don't do a lot of gaming myself. When I first got my XBox, I bought some games I didn't like but I couldn't return them. I could resell them at a loss. That really bummed me.
So I found Gamefly. It's great, because you can rent games, try them, and even buy them, often at a reduced cost. My students were meh, about it, but I think it's because of the credit card policy and most don't have access to them.
What I really like about Gamefly is that I can put my membership on hold if I don't have time to game and come back to later, like in the summer, when I do.
They finally made the Media share plans available to their old customers, saw I to the Twitter and jumped on it. I have two devices now, a phone and a hot spot and was wasting data. I also don’t like not having unlimited talk.
I have yet to use all minutes but still.
I am at 6 gig data, unlimited talk and text and still get my 15% discount so I think I am saving about $20 a month.
Unfortunately not an affiliate. But have been a loyal customer for 3 decades.