Digital Substitute

Math Challenge: Can You Draw This?

shawnurban — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:55:49 +0000

picture perfect patch © 2011 randomtruth | more info (via: FlickrStorm) Please, do not visit her post just yet Fawn Nguyen wrote a post on Friday that caught my attention. She divided her math class into pairs, making one person in each pair a Describer and the other person a Drawer. She then gave [...]

Inspiring the Next Generation

shawnurban — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:09:27 +0000

I have some interesting news to share. The Grade 10s in one of the schools where I sub began their poetry unit in English this week. I subbed for them yesterday. One of their tasks yesterday was to write a poem in one of the forms they had already learned, then share these with the [...]

Periodic Troubles and Screencasting

shawnurban — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:16:31 +0000

Periodic Table Elementree Model © 2006 Canada Science and Technology Museum | more info (via: FlickrStorm) Screencasts and concept illustration It is interesting how posts develop in this blog. For the last two weeks I have been working on a screencasting post to celebrate my first screencast, which I posted on my YouTube channel. [...]

Inspiration Against a Lost Generation

shawnurban — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:19:47 +0000

Lost Generation © 2009 KarmaTube | more info (via: YouTube) This video serves two purposes. First, it is a creative way to communicate a profound and inspiring message for everyone, by juxtaposing opposing tones via a literary twist — a winding and unwinding technique common to folktales. Second, it is a reminder to me, [...]

Blog Bling and Creative Commons

shawnurban — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:55:25 +0000

A “few” balloons © 2005 Pierre Andrews | more info (via: FlickrStorm) Want some photos, clip art, videos, music, sounds, polls, inframe-content or other bling on your blog? Not sure where to find it and if you can legally use it? The Commons Last week, I attended the CEATCA 2012 Teachers’ Convention. And, [...]

The Algorithm in the Code: Building an Inquiry Tool

shawnurban — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:17:27 +0000

A couple of days ago, I posted a Math Challenge posed by David Wees some weeks ago. The code emulated Euclid’s Algorithm of Coprimes and GCFs. The Code in the Algorithm © 2012 David Wees | more info (via: yfrog) First analysis Analysis of the code reveals that, when a=0, b=b and, when [...]