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Exams graded, course grades calculated. Just waiting for the "regrade request" window to close tonight, and then I'll submit grades and be truly done for the quarter. It was much more fun than last year's "hybrid" non-teaching. In the mean time, I found myself at the top end of Lake Washington again today. Feeling not too bad, really. #cycling #SEAbikes #teaching

New account, new introduction!

I'm Beth. I'm a queer mathematician who loves musical theater, webcomics, teaching math, and my cat.

Favorite areas of math: Topology, geometry, and combinatorics.

Favorite musicals: Chess, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd

Favorite webcomics: this is long enough to get its own post:
https://transfem.social/notes/9ius8efgn12cewcz

#Introduction #Queer #Mathematician #Math #Musicals #MusicalTheater #MusicalTheatre #Webcomics #Teaching #TeachingMath #Cat #Cats #SillyGoose #Topology #Geometry #Combinatorics #Chess #ChessTheMusical #IntoTheWoods #NextToNormal #SundayInTheParkWithGeorge #SweeneyTodd #PandorasTaleWiki #RainverseWiki

TransFem Space@183231bcbThis is a selection of my favorite #WebComics. They are in alphabetical order, NOT order of preference. Alice and the Nightmare https://www.aliceandthenightmare.com/ #AliceAndTheNightmare Castoff https://castoff-comic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Castoff https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/castoff/list?title_no=50984 #Castoff Cosmic Fish https://cosmicfishes.com/ #CosmicFish Dumbing of Age https://www.dumbingofage.com/ #DumbingOfAge Heartless https://heartless-comic.com/ #heartless Heroes of Thantopolis https://www.heroesofthantopolis.com/ #HeroesOfThantopolis Inhibit by @evegwood@mastodon.social https://inhibitcomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Inhibit/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/inhibit/list?title_no=40462 #Inhibit Kiwi Blitz https://www.kiwiblitz.com/ #KiwiBlitz Lefty Cartoons https://leftycartoons.com/ #LeftyCartoons Lies Within https://www.lieswithincomic.com/ #LiesWithin Monster Lands https://monster-lands.com/ #MonsterLands Namesake https://www.namesakecomic.com/ #Namesake Never Heroes https://www.neverheroescomic.com/ #NeverHeroes Never Satisfied https://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/ #NeverSatisfied Nix of Nothing by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.nixofnothing.com/ #NixOfNothing No End https://noendcomic.com https://tapas.io/series/No-End/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/no-end/list?title_no=909579 #NoEnd Novae https://www.novaecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/novae/list?title_no=106507 #Novae Pandora's Tale by @comicsbyxan https://pandorastale.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pandoras-Tale https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pandoras-tale/list?title_no=287377 #PandorasTale Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana http://pathways.elainetipping.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pathways-Chronicles-of-Tuvana https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pathways-chronicles-of-tuvana/list?title_no=128848 #PathwaysChroniclesOfTuvana Radio Silence http://www.radiosilencecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/radio-silence/list?title_no=35242 #RadioSilence Rain by @LynnSenpai@retro.pizza https://rain.thecomicseries.com/ #rain Recoil https://recoil.one/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/recoil/list?title_no=256833 #recoil Saints' Quarter https://saintsquarter.com/ https://tapas.io/series/SaintsQuarter https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/saintsquarter/list?title_no=65944 #SaintsQuarter Sister Claire https://www.sisterclaire.com/ #SisterClaire Skyvein https://www.skyveincomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/skyvein https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/skyvein/list?title_no=651351&webtoon-platform-redirect=true #skyvein Sleepless Domain https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/ #SleeplessDomain Slightly Damned https://www.sdamned.com/ #SlightlyDamned Speak of the Devil by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.speakdevil.com/ #SpeakOfTheDevil StarHammer https://www.starhammercomic.com/ #StarHammer Suihira: The City of Water http://suihira.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Suihira https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/suihira-the-city-of-water/list?title_no=39385 #suihira Supernormal Step by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.supernormalstep.com/ #SuperNormalStep Tamberlane https://www.tamberlanecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/tamberlane/list?title_no=372674 #tamberlane The End http://www.endcomic.com/ #TheEnd The Order of the Stick https://www.giantitp.com/ #TheOrderOfTheStick The Property of Hate https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The_Hook/1 #ThePropertyOfHate The Psions https://tapas.io/series/The-Psions #ThePsions The Roommate From Hell http://enchantedpencil.com/roomie/ https://tapas.io/series/The-Roommate-From-Hell https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-roommate-from-hell/list?title_no=206046 #TheRoommateFromHell The Sanity Circus https://www.sanitycircus.com/ #TheSanityCircus #SanityCircus This Is Not Fiction https://www.thisisnotfiction.com #ThisIsNotFiction Tigress Queen https://www.tigressqueen.com/ #TigressQueen Widdershins https://widdershinscomic.com/ #widdershins

Central Florida Public Media: Florida will spend $15 million to build searchable database of classroom materials. “Florida will spend millions over the next four years to work with a third party to create, maintain and monitor a system that makes it easier to review K-12 classroom materials. The Florida Department of Education has entered into a $15 million dollar contract with Maryland-based […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/13/central-florida-public-media-florida-will-spend-15-million-to-build-searchable-database-of-classroom-materials/

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First, 24 hours just doesn't always happen for me. I am not great at email. In my (partial) defense, this university insists on

1. preventing any other means of #ElectronicCommunication (e.g., my response time was *much* faster and more reliable before I was prohibited from using a #discord server for each class)

2. flooding that single bottleneck channel of communication with a ton of shit: Holiday theme in the cafeteria! Starbucks is having a promotion! 10% off apparel at the bookstore! Here's a workshop only applicable to 5% of anybody! The president wants to tell you boring things nobody cares about! I'm selling my couch! Flags at half mast! 15 tips for healthy work/life balance! All in the same channel.

Because past presidents bought into Google, there's also no convenient way to flag/emphasize emails I want to see (e.g., from students). Ongoing filtering is a thing (clunky in google, IMO), but just whitelisting a group of emails requires a bunch of repeated work every couple of months and constant vigilance in between. Email is a nightmare for me.

2/4

#email#sucks#google

I had an amazing interview yesterday with Hugo House about teaching a #playwriting class there in the spring. I was suuuper nervous cause I hadn't had an actual interview in years! But I have tons of teaching experience and I had a lot to say... we went over time and they didn't mind listening to me ramble, they were into it 😅

very excited to get back to #teaching, especially in a non-graded setting.

course is called "wild electric stagecraft" and, if approved, will run April-June in #seattle.

In my digital history class this semester, we were originally going to do some topic modeling work with MALLET but students struggled to get it installed.

So we pivoted and a few weeks later, used #Voyant to do the modeling, then Datawrapper to play with visualization.

Was a real success, and bringing #Datawrapper into the mix really helped compensate for Voyant's limitations in terms of visualization. The students really enjoyed trying different visualizations out, even if they were a bust, and trying to make sense of what they were seeing.

Planning to type up some notes as a more formal lesson plan. If I ever get a website up and running again, I'll share it there (someday).

One of the many classes I teach is a calculus course for 12th year high school students. Since their peers are taking Calculus II and Linear Algebra and beyond they regard themselves as “the slow class” which is ridiculous. Most people don’t take calculus until college, if they ever encounter it at all. But young people compare themselves to their peers— 1/

BBC putting retention “crisis” in scare quotes this morning.

Hi, I’m a science teacher and I’ve just taught 28 consecutive classes with no planning time because all my PPAs have been taken for cover (maths, mostly). I’m in fucking “crisis” if the profession isn’t.

We are a nonprofit org focused on violence prevention.

We have been producing and publishing video games intentionally designed to prevent violence and to support those who've experienced it since 2008.

We do this through our program 'Gaming Against Violence':

⭐ Topics include:

▪️#Consent
▪️#CriticalThinking
▪️#HealthyRelationships
▪️#MediaLiteracy
▪️#Resilience
▪️#TeenDatingViolence prevention

@gamingagainstv @itchio @publichealth @edutooters
#protectivefactors #traumainformed #videogames #games #publichealth #violence #prevention #nonprofit #education #teaching

I just came across the FLICC taxonomy for identifying and countering the techniques of science denial. I knew most of these, but some were new to me.

I found the video useful (although 40 minutes long) and the reading easy to skim through. Definitely something I will be using in my classes in the future and think everyone should be aware of.

youtube.com/watch?v=gecDy9wDuC

crankyuncle.com/a-history-of-f

#teaching #TeachEcon @academiamemes

President Biden designates Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the notorious federal boarding school for Native American children, as a national monument. For many years, the US government stole Native children from their families, peoples, and languages and sent them to Carlisle and other federal boarding schools.

#History

thehill.com/homenews/administr

What happens when students stop believing that reliable sources exist at all?
When deepfakes & AI-generated content can make anything seem real, we're not just teaching information literacy anymore. We're teaching survival skills for democracy.

#Teaching #Education #Democracy #DigitalLiteracy
medium.com/@shannapeeples/the-

A university classroom seen through shattered glass, digital static and binary code where windows and whiteboards would be
Medium · The New Reality: Teaching Truth in an Era of Manufactured DoubtBy Shanna Peeples

It's kind of your responsibility if you are teaching someone to have some confidence in their ability to "get it" -- and, sadly I encountered a number of teachers who had little confidence in me in my own education so I tend to err on the side of "of course you can" more than "hm maybe this is too hard for you right now"

This can be an error though that can really stress some students out.

So, that is a see-saw I'm always fiddling with.