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A brief entry about how I’m grateful to have won a teacher of the year award just like my dad.

Some video directions for showing my students how to submit assignments on Onenote.

Below are answers to some frequently asked questions I get after the semester is over.

What is my grade? #

I can’t talk about grades over email due to FERPA regulations. Your final letter grade is on MyWSU.

I got almost all of the question right on ___. Can I get credit? #

Sorry, no. The grading is, on the one hand, draconian because it is “all right or it’s wrong.” However, every individual learning target has the opportunity to be revisited six times(!) with each learning target appearing up to four weeks in a row and then again during the last week of classes and finals week.

I’ve spent the last week trying to improve my site’s presentation of material for my calculus students. What really irked me was how unprofessional my non-responsive images looked when I’d go in the classroom and see my site rendered on their phones.

So I added lightbox2 javascript library, I used Hugo’s automatic generation of smaller images (for faster load times), and changed the positioning CSS. I felt really proud because it looked great on the laptop (Safari and Firefox) and on mobile. Hooray!

How does a student “get 75%” of a 50 minute exploration that even Achimedes never solved in his lifetime?

Want students to learn more? Try grading differently.

I wanted a “simple” way to write my class materials in Markdown. Hugo magically makes it a website.