Hermann. Notes on my working life.
My use of Mahara (17.04 in conjunction with Moodle 3.3+) has been reported here. When the term is ending (end of june) time seemed right for looking back and getting some feedback. As a starting point I took a study […]
At our school Moodle is used since more than 15 years widely, an own instance is maintained by our IT department. This is not true for Mahara. So to use (is: installing and maintaining) my own Moodle/Mahara (Mahoodle) there had […]
Mobile devices offer a magnificent set of capabilities to use with studying physics — and this can be done with freely available software tools. Since five years I am using MIT AppInventor teaching programming courses for beginners and using it […]
The flipped classroom approach has advantages which are more striking than ever. My personal experience is a very strong dispersion of the speed of the learners. The (forced) ability to manage more than one task simultaneously in a multimedia setting with […]
Producing screencasts (for Moodle or WordPress) on Mac is done (according to my readings) often using established tools like Camtasia. After looking at the price tags I decided to look for something better and cheaper. There are three main requirements: Record my screen together […]
For a long time now I feel the need to teach Linux in my ICT classes as this opens a whole new world of possibilities and insights. Seeing only windows is a very limited view, especially never working on the […]
From the 5.0 Manual of Geogebra: It’s actually enough to provide a single list to Zip[]. This makes it a shorter alternative to Sequence[] when all you want is to traverse a list. For example, Zip[a^2, a, listOfNumbers] is much shorter than Sequence[Element[listOfNumbers, […]
Working in laptop classes with Software can be a difficult task for both teacher and the students. The students have to look at their laptops, their textbooks, maybe their handwritten journals and – sometimes most important – the whiteboard. This […]
When solving textbook examples often many styles of coding are possible. As everywhere some principles which are useful when programming have been proven very useful as best practice: Never copy results manually to progress with the calculation. Never. Don’t even […]
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