Posts tagged ‘education’
Head links
May 18th, 2010 at 11:42 pm by Dr. Drang
Links, of course, make the web go round. They put the Hyper in HTML. But today the links I found were made in my head, the old-fashioned way. The day started with me riding in to work listening to The Science Show podcast from ABC Radio National. That’s ABC, as in Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not…
Iridium flares in iCal
April 19th, 2010 at 6:02 pm by Dr. Drang
Last summer I wrote a script that logged in to my account at Heaven’s Above every Monday morning and emailed me a list of the week’s upcoming Iridium flares. The script has been working perfectly, but I’ve found myself doing the same things every time I read the email: Scan the list for flares that…
A recommendation for Confederate History Month
April 7th, 2010 at 9:40 pm by Dr. Drang
In the wake of Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell’s idiotic declaration of April as Confederate History Month and the justified anger it caused, I’d like to recommend this iTunes U podcast series: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era: 1845-1877. It’s from Yale University’s History 119 class, taught by Prof. David Blight, and is really engaging. Blight…
Chile’s earthquake
February 27th, 2010 at 9:59 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m not surprised that—so far, at least—the death toll from Chile’s earthquake is so low compared to Haiti’s, despite the much stronger quake. I was trained as a structural engineer, and my department was loaded with graduate students from South America. Latin American countries tend to take earthquakes very seriously, and their engineers are highly…
S5
February 9th, 2010 at 4:14 pm by Dr. Drang
On Super Bowl Sunday I got a crash course in S5, the Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System by Eric Meyer. It’s pretty impressive, something I would almost certainly use if I were frequently giving slide show presentations. My older son had made a Keynote presentation for a school project and needed to convert it to…
The wrong sort
December 7th, 2009 at 10:04 pm by Dr. Drang
Tonight I was killing time in Naperville’s Nichols Library, looking through the computer books. NPL uses the Dewey Decimal System for assigning catalog numbers, so I was in the 005 section when I ran across this book with a call number on the spine of 005.8 BIS. It’s a pop sociology book, and obviously has…
Math practice sheets
September 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm by Dr. Drang
After writing last night’s post I started thinking about who would be likely to read it and how it could be made more useful to them. I think regular readers of this blog—both of them—are conversant with at least one scripting language and are pretty handy with a text editor. For those people, providing the…
More multiplication practice sheets
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 pm by Dr. Drang
Update 10/15/09 I’ve made this page to list all the math practice sheets I’ve made. And I’ll update it if and when I make more. Earlier this evening I was looking over the fourth-grader’s homework, and I saw he was having a little trouble multiplying two-digit numbers. So we talked about strategies for doing the…
iTunes U and iTunes 9
September 10th, 2009 at 2:50 pm by Dr. Drang
You may have noticed that iTunes 9 has a new media kind: iTunes U. It will show up as one of the Library types in the left sidebar (if you have the iTunes U item checked in the General Preferences) and is one of the things you can sync with your iPod. Any lecture series…
Camry smart key battery replacement
August 26th, 2009 at 11:30 am by Dr. Drang
The battery in my Camry’s smart key just died and information on how to replace it wasn’t as easy to find as I thought it would be, so I decided to post some instructions here. Even if no one else finds it useful, I’ll be able to come back in a couple of years to…
