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12

Jan

Why origami monsters always gotta fight?

Posted by Betsy  Published in Origami, Uncategorized

devil vs. tyrannosaurus by Elizabeth Lavolette is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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11

Jan

Back to school…

Posted by Betsy  Published in OpenSource, Uncategorized

I did my homework for Introduction to Open Education! Check it out if you’re interested in that stuff.

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8

Jan

Introduction to open education

Posted by Betsy  Published in OpenSource, Uncategorized

Despite my new status as a graduate, I’m taking a class this semester, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education, taught by David Wiley at BYU. Obviously, he practices what he preaches – this course is available to me (and you, and anyone else) for free. While plenty of free educational materials are available on the [...]

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6

Jan

Western dragon

Posted by Betsy  Published in Origami, Uncategorized

My boss generously gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card as a graduation present* (thanks, Melissa!), and I blew it all on a new origami book: Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex, by Jun Maekawa. I’ve made several things so far, but this Western Dragon is the first one that I [...]

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3

Jan

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary

Posted by Betsy  Published in Language, Uncategorized

Happy new year! Something I want to do this year is post here more regularly, especially to share the interesting educational tools I find. So, here’s the first one, although I may be a bit late to the party on it: Visuwords™ is an online (English-only) dictionary that graphically displays the relationships between words. The [...]

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