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Re: ka-translations: Taking Khan Academy off the... | Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:33 -0000

Maybe you could get in touch with KA Lite http://j.mp/11eGFYQ offering to add Planet Math to their deployment and they'd share the software? I mean, to run on Raspberry Pi, it'd be complicated, but it'd also have to be basic, right?

Re: Cable on Free vs Open

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:24:33 -0000

Thank you for writing this post Sir. Onward with Openness.

Re: http://dalab.cc/post/34375762899

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:19:06 -0000

Thanks for sharing Joe! Not everything she writes agrees with me, but this is a very articulate essay emboldened by the fact she actually lived in Gangam. How fascinating a song mocking aspects of an Eastern culture falling in love with the shallow sides of Western life becoming a smash hit in Western pop culture?

Re: http://dalab.cc/post/34658942130

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:14:51 -0000

Dr. King: Yes, it is an adult class! Thanks for the comment and question! - Charlie

Re: ENG 099: Conversational American English | Writing Activity 3

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:07:56 -0000

Dr. King: Choosing a story about some sport is a great idea! I didn't think about that. I was looking for a short story the student could finish, but a sports story would be more appropriate and fit better within the theme of the lesson. Perhaps I could also ask grammar questions with sports, i.e. "Is 'John, a great player, is a famous Westham football star.' correct or incorrect?" Thanks for your helpful comment!

Re: ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:04:17 -0000

The reading is too advanced for the students. I have to walk through it paragraph by paragraph with them. I like it 'cause it shows them they can access texts without knowing all the words. That said, I'm not sure if a work above their level is the best way for them to retain this ability. I will try and find some easier texts, also maybe a short story so we could finish it together in a reasonable time. It'll be a bit before Tom Sawyer and The Elements of Style are through. ... p.s. I also like both texts because they are in the public domain. Copyright flexibility is still no excuse for ineffective teaching materials, I'll evolve.

Re: ESL 101 Korean Baseball Activity 2

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:01:59 -0000

Used this activity in a lesson. The instructions to step 2 are incomplete, and the step could be improved in general. Additionally, the question for step 3 is too ambiguous. Needed an extra time activity, thankfully I found a comic http://www.gocomics.com/pea... and those could be incorporated into future activities.

Re: Writers and Mentors - Magazine - The Atlantic

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:19:44 -0000

Thanks for the article Rick.

Reminds me of a Tom Wolfe comment about how writing programs are like pools of water and what comes out of pools of water? Mosquitoes.

That said, I think you have some good ideas at the end. I think there is a way the workshop could work.

Personally I'm not interested in attending an MFA, but I do know I likely never would be writing fiction now if not for my college creative writing class. Professor Lewis gave us an example of how to act like a writer, even if he was disturbingly unorganized.

Re: An Open Letter to my Two Mortgage Companies

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:02:04 -0000

Linked today from an old Dave Winer post to your piece. Wonderfully written piece, examining a complex, difficult issue in a logical way.

What was the fallout of your request?

Re: 下中

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:16:41 -0000

Grandma,

I'm not sure if the students look at the bulletin board or not. I hope they do, but doubt it.

Oh, and the board wasn't my idea, it was the Japanese English teacher - Hori Sensei, a good man.

Re: Responding to Grandma

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:27:19 -0000

Grandma,

Made the change in the introduction, thanks for the suggestion, and for always reading.

It's a balancing act with computers as a useful tool and distraction. Hopefully I can find ways to make it only useful for my students.

Re: The Look-Say Method

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:46:31 -0000

Thanks for testing this. I am using firefox and posting to tumblr and commenting on Disqus via the web.

I can see the comments now, but when I tried to respond to your comment directly on my site, the disqus comment box wouldn't let me log in, even though I was already loggd in at the Disqus homepage. Thus, I am writing this reply from disqus.com and not my blog.

Re: to do, february into march edition

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:48 -0000

What do you mean when you say "go digital?" Who are you "cold calling?"

If you're willing to cover shipping, we could talk about the couch.

Why'd you change the title of your site?

Oh, and please be kind to me in your japan recounting.

Re: Something strange and geeky (Scripting News)

Charles Jeffrey Danoff — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:10:14 -0000

Not one of the untouchable 25, but am intrigued by what you are describing, even if I don't understand. Same way I like the ideas of quantum physics, even if I can't do calculus.

Any chance you could explain for the ignorant masses and I in a couple of sentences what you did?