Internet In the Classroom

My dear "Digital Residents" (Generation Y & Millenials - those of you born into this world of digital innovation),

I am sitting here in a workshop about the Internet in the Classroom and I am, of course, thinking of my students once again! In the time I have been here this morning I have already found out about some really great and useful sites for all of you to use.

LINKS:

The Internet Public Library - you may already know about this, but just in case you do not, it seems like a really great source.

The National Archives - this is a great place for primary sources if you are writing a history paper or something (or if you are just interested in history, in general)

The WhoIs lookups for those of us that do not trust the web quite so much. I am always doing WhoIs LookUps when I am using the Internet as a source for writing one of my own papers, and you should do the same! You don't know who is writing these sites! If you want to know Who Is the owner of a website you are using, then you can use either Easy Who Is or Better Who Is to type in the url and find out.

OK, that is it for now... I have to go back to learning about things I do not know about on the Internet.

See everyone tomorrow!

T-shirt Talk

So I probably should have come up with a better use for our class blog before this, but why not talk tees?

Here is the list of t-shirt ideas so far. We can place votes for your favorites in the comments section, or add your own:

#1.
AP Stats -- not your average class

#2.
AP Statistics: Mean as they come

#3.
Everything I ever wanted to know about SE(x-bar), I learned in AP Stats

#4.
AP Stat students are
...independent
...unbiased
...significant
...approximately normal
...robust
...truly random
...and occasionally confounding

#5.
"Statistics means never having to say you're certain."

#6.
Reasons we love AP Stats
P(Chuck Norris = Awesome) = 1.1
If the coolness of Chuck Norris' beard could be measured, it would have a
z-score greater than 4.
The tears of Chuck Norris eradicate all variabilty.....fortunately for
statisticians, Chuck Norris never cries.
Chuck Norris isn't an outlier, he just hasn't found his distribution yet.
The awesomeness of Chuck Norris is significant at alpha = .0001.
Before starting any stats problem, Chuck Norris counts to infinity...twice.

#7.
Top ten reasons to take AP Statistics:
1. Sig Tests easier than Math tests
2. Statisticians are significant
3. You learn the entire Greek alphabet!
4. Lurking is encouraged
5. Most of the Data is edible
6. We do it with confidence, frequency, and variability.
7. Z-town: it's a party town!
8. We're normal; everyone else is skewed.
9. A regression line beats the lunch line.
10. No one knows what we do so we are always right.

#8.
AP Stats: We're Approximately Normal

#9.
"I learned everything I know about SE(x-bar symbol) in AP Statistics"

#10.
AP Stats: finding the mean of life

#11.
It's easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie without them

#12.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'

#13.
"83.26% of all statistics are made up."

#14.
AP Statistics: Nowhere near normal.

#15.
AP Statistics
[Picture of a normal curve] We are here (pointing at Z= +3);
You are probably here (pointing at mean).

#16.
(With the normal curve so clearly diplayed, it's really a z-shirt instead of
a t-shirt)

#17.
Totally skewed.

#18.
AP Stats: Practicing random acts of inference.

#19.
AP Stats: Performing random tests of significance.

#20.
Statistics Rules!
[followed by a list of rules]

#21.
AP Stats: We are SOOOOO skewed!

#22.
AP Stats: Where you'll find standard deviation.

#23.
AP Statistics: Where fun goes to die

#24.
9 out of 5 students prefer AP Statistics