Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

Fixing PowerPoint 2008 Web Exports

So, I’ve spent the last few days wrestling with a curriculum unit that an outside consultant built. In PowerPoint. On Windows. And which we have been trying to set up in such a way that we can share the interactive document with students. Who are using Macs. And, perhaps, without asking each student to download [...]

Math on the Web

Shelly Blake-Pock just posted a question on his blog about teaching math in a paperless environment (in fact, since I started gearing up to respond, he’s posted some follow-ups as well).
Last year, wearing my math teacher hat (nominally given to me as a member of the Math & Computer Science department — normally only worn [...]

Compatibility, Forward and Reverse

I just saw two articles with in the space of ten minutes: one on the substantial/frustrating/obscenity-inducing work behind building web sites compatible with different web browsers (and, because A List Apart is so cool, another matching article on the same topic) and another on converting API interface hooks into a filesystem.
What, I hear you cry, [...]