Comments on: Does Size Matter?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:40:55 +0000

Mr. K, please do. I miss you.

By: Mr. K

Mr. K — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:02:29 +0000

Right. Now all I have to do is start posting again.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:14:26 +0000

Smart, linking your name to your RSS feed. Hadn’t thought of that. (Totally off-topic.)

By: Mr. K

Mr. K — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:42:42 +0000

After stealing Dan’s idea of teaching and testing concepts, that’s how I now organize my folders: one top one for the course (i.e. algebra) with a bunch of folders of the form ##-concept where the number matches up with their grade sheet & the test numbers. Handouts & slide decks go in the same folder. I’d like to keep my test questions there too, but I don’t have an easy tool to pull the together for the actual tests.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:00:14 +0000

I keep two subdirectories in each year’s folder, one for Keynote files and one for handouts.

The Mac OS does a pretty good job indexing the handouts so I can easily find “proportions” or “quadratic” as long as that word shows up somewhere in the file name or in the file itself.

Where I blow it is in my image- and video-heavy slidedecks. Unless I write down the content of the medium or the standard it addresses, it may as well be invisible to my laptop’s search engine.

By: Kari

Kari — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:35:05 +0000

Love this, and also, wonder how you organize your files. I’m in my 4th year, my 2nd one using visual media heavily (especially in my AP Stats class) and I’m juuuust starting to run into, “Now, where did I put that file that I really liked from last January–no, wait, it was from February…” problem.

By: Christian Long

Christian Long — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:43:18 +0000

Been thinking about this for a long time. Actually come back to this post several times since last month. Keep coming back to a very simple thought:

Thank goodness for Moore and his law.

An addendum that comes to mind today:

Thank goodness for your ability to thoughtfully, creatively, astutely push on all those digital gigibytes to help me (and others, I suspect) explore and ask lovely questions in/out of the classroom.

Makes you wonder what your file quantities/narratives (and storage possibilities) will be when you walk across that stage, PhD cap atop you dome and all. Hopefully Moore will continue to be proven true along the way.

By: rhett

rhett — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:28:34 +0000

Maybe this is an example of grade inflation.