Geoff St. Pierre's Blog (29)

Sharing Notes w/ Students

Sharing notes with students in windows 7 and Windows Journal;… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on November 20, 2010 at 8:01am — 2 Comments

cosecant arguments; not like you think the other argument.

for csc(2n+1) ; the "2n + 1" is considered the argument. The argument I am referring to in the title is the age old battle between what should you know and what should you be able to get, look up, or derive when needed.

The battle rages on. Here is my update to the JS Maths Wiki that was inspired by one such argument (very civil) that I participated in at a holiday party for the staff at our school. Here is… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on December 20, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Wave Gadgets ... we've begun work!

We have begun work on building a wave gadget ... here is our preliminary specification:

the work has begun.

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on October 16, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Wave, wiki and what not?

I have updated the JS Maths Wiki with some student contributions. Inequalities with examples and audio explanations. Listen while you try your homework.

My students and I have had our wave accounts for about a week now. We are, as expected, impressed. We are trying/toying with the idea of building a wave gadget in our Java class, but can not get GWT to work on Ubuntu?…

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Added by Geoff St. Pierre on October 15, 2009 at 5:11pm — No Comments

google wave , takes a step!

Google wave takes another step towards public release!

After using my google wave sandbox account for about ¹/₂ the summer ... I finally got 8 invites to add people I know to google wave; http://wave.google.com. Well I only have 7 left, but I am very excited about the propects. My students were also beta testers so we should be able to get an entire class in.

this technology is awesome. I am excited. My… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on October 1, 2009 at 7:46pm — 5 Comments

blogs, blogs, and more blogs

I've had the students create their blogs on the schools intranet worpressMU installation. So far I've got 25 of 60 blogs set up. Their were/are some minor problems, but I will get them all a blog eventually.

I had student reactions ranging from this is very cool ... all the way to you can't make us do this. It is math class and some of them are excited about reading and blogging and some not so much.

My blog about the book I'm reading:… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on September 26, 2009 at 4:24pm — 2 Comments

Open Source, Web, and Tools for Students and Teachers

Over the summer I installed worpressMU on the jasperstreet server. It was a success, and as a result I installed it on the school intranet server and will be offering blogs to any interested teachers, clubs, or whatever. If you want a blog you can have one too.

I am excited at the prospect. I am going to have my students blog about the books they read from the mini library in my class each student will have their own blog, which they… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on September 7, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Java

I will be teaching Java next year; here is a quick screencast on the differences and simmilarities of Java and C++:

the full write up with reference links and code is at: JS Wiki Java

have fun,

enjoy the… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 24, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Mathematics typesetting w/ LaTeX in MediaWiki

Here is a screencast to get you started writing mathematics for the web:

http://www.screencast.com/t/IO8PU8zbGSU

you can try out your skills at http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/wiki and make a legit page or just try some stuff out on the sandbox page.

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 17, 2009 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Wiki Syntax Part One

Here is a screencast on creating sections and line breaks:

Hope this… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 4, 2009 at 1:44pm — No Comments

Wiki How To

I created this video with the jing software on how to edit a wiki.

I plan to create some more videos in this series on Wiki Syntax, and advanced features..

I have also updated my math wiki text to include a section on linear systems: JS Math Linear… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 3, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

updates: math wiki; functions ;; windows seven termination sequence

Small content update on the JS Math Wiki.

My write up of my windows seven beta test: http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/gff

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 30, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Reading; The Last Gigabyte

Dear Reader:

If you are reading this then you know how to read! This is a project I built in conjunction with my Librarian and an English Teacher.

I have been "forcing" my mathematics students to read, you know like books and stuff. My librarian has inspired me; I just:

* go to the schools library web page

* log in

* search for books

* add the ones I like to my personal list

* and check out 20 books at a time for one month

* the books… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 21, 2009 at 6:53pm — No Comments

Super Data Stacker Hacker: http://wolframalpha.com

Playing around with this: http://wolframalpha.com site. It has been brought to my attention by the abdbg; and he has made a more comprehensive post about look and features.

It has been showing up on the twit radar, and other places. I used it in class today to generate random numbers, but then gave up on it (for… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 19, 2009 at 4:29pm — No Comments

jasperstreet.homeip.net --> jasperstreet.homeip.net/gff

the band is taking back jasperstreet.homeip.net;

i get: jasperstreet.homeip.net/gff

they are not really taking it back ... I am trying to collect my content to relevant places. This may affect some of the links previously posted on classroom20 discussions and blogs.

Basically anything education will be on:… Continue

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on May 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments