Jul 17, 2022
This project exists to serve a very niche problem. In my classroom, students coming from across my rather large school have trouble making it to my room before passing period ends. Therefore, I give them an extra 45 seconds after the bell rings before I count them tardy. I also don’t allow students to pack up prior to three minutes before the end of the period. So, I wanted a script that would sound an alarm bell 45 seconds after the beginning of each period and 3 minutes prior to the end of the period.
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ProjectsJun 14, 2022
A simple custom link shortening app. It’s a bit like a personal bit.ly. I wrote it in php and MySQL.
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ProjectsApr 30, 2022
I have been having students use the free online graphing calculator Desmos (www.desmos.com). It can perform linear and curve fits much more precisely than can be done by hand, but it is much friendlier to new users than Excel.
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Talks & PublicationsJun 09, 2021
I use Plain-Text Accounting and the command line tools Ledger and HLedger in order to track family finances. I have written these scripts to help me import data from monthly bank statements into my ledger file and visualize our finances.
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ProjectsDec 04, 2020
This pair of GeoGebra animations is designed to show that there are two ingredients to circular motion: centripetal force and forward motion. If one or the other ingredient is missing, the motion will diverge from circular.
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