Disembrangling programming

As you may or may not know, the Windows 7 RC/beta/other releases expire at the latest on March 1st, 2 days from now. So I had to spend some time this weekend upgrading to a full Windows 7. Read the rest of this entry »

Summary

A while back, James wrote about his development environment. I wanted to summarize my approach, and go into a bit more detail about the specific setup you would need to have SUMO work locally. For more information, see also this wiki page.

My LDE: Ubuntu Linux

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UPDATE (27 Feb 2010) BarTab is an awesome extension.

• BarTab
• Better Gmail 2
• Dummy Lipsum
• Firebug
• Fission
• Gmail Notifier
• Hide Menubar – Now part of Firefox 3.6
• Jetpack (only Mozilla specific jetpacks yet)
• Live HTTP headers
• Personas – Now part of Firefox 3.6, but I keep the addon
• Read It Later
• Tabs Open Relative – Now part of Firefox 3.6
• TreeStyleTab
• Weave
• Web Developer
• Yahoo! Mail Notifier
• YSlow

Other potentially useful that I haven’t installed:

• Platypus
• Dust Me Selectors

This article explains how to easily create a contact form with spam filtering in Wordpress.

Duration: 30 minutes
Demo: http://awesomemath.org/ (see footer)
Software: Wordpress 2.8.6 (latest as of this writing)

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Ideas about teaching:

• Pedagogical content knowledge
• Culturally responsive teaching
• Teacher as facilitator
• Teacher learning
• Teacher learning communities

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