When I started the Writing In the Discipline project, I was not sure where I was heading. I conscientiously did the weekly readings in Bean and started to get some inspiration about (hopefully) critical thinking tasks. Then I got to the point where the readings became less inspiring as I saw them addressing more humanities or language classes than math. On the other hand, I was more and more interested in using projects in my classes. So I bought books, states googling... And here comes the squirrel: I have plenty of pages opened in my browser, an increase number of bookmarks on that or related subjects, a bunch of downloaded documents. And I now realize that in fact I didn't really get started. Yes, I have lots more of ideas: projects (with dozens of exemples), poems, webquests... But this is so far going nowhere. Or does it actually leads to one main idea: math journal?
A bit of organization
I accumulate like squirrels and actually, like them, I am likely to not being able to find/use all my nuts. I just cumulate half read documents and bookmarks but soon forget what I have, where. So I started to make a table summarizing the projects I found, where. In this table I also indicate for what class it seems to be suitable and add some comments. I still have a lot to do there and often half bored, half excited, I catch myself browsing again for new ideas while I haven't sort out the others...
Organization is also why I start this post. Still kind of a note to myself. Writing down ideas to not forget them, eventually introduce some organization, bringing them to a new life... And here is
Organization is also why I start this post. Still kind of a note to myself. Writing down ideas to not forget them, eventually introduce some organization, bringing them to a new life... And here is
An unsorted list of ideas (with few references)
- I will definitely use Test correction in my future classes.
- Projects: I like the style of the "letter" projects given in "Writing Projects for Mathematics courses: crushed clowns, cars & coffee-to-go". But I still need to "make them mine" and decide on grading and implementation.
- Webquest: I love Sam Shah's Newton vs. Leibnitz webquest. I think it is a good way to make students aware of the history of calculus and hopefully make them look forward to know more about the topic (beginning of term project).
- Sam in a brainstorming post, Sam gives a list of other project ideas, some of which seems promising.
- Math journal/diary