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Tim: /* wireless generation */

2012-01-22T03:49:58Z

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	In my classes all students work was online and visible to every other student in the school. Students were writing for each other almost as much as they were writing for their teacher. As writing became part of their identity, their identity expanded to include their take on Macbeth or the style of Steinbeck.		In my classes all students work was online and visible to every other student in the school. Students were writing for each other almost as much as they were writing for their teacher. As writing became part of their identity, their identity expanded to include their take on Macbeth or the style of Steinbeck.

	To do that required hacking Mediawiki to be able to inject pages into each students repository. I accessed the API's of Quizlet and Visual Thesaurus to create resources for my students. I needed tools to create assessments from open response to the multiple choice style of SAT/Accuplacer. On Friday afternoon I would meet with a group of teachers and we would help solve each others problems on Moodle, upgrade our servers, write scripts to help us harness the power of technology. I think the potential in the education sphere is limitless.		To do that required hacking Mediawiki to be able to inject pages into each students repository. I accessed the API's of Quizlet and Visual Thesaurus scraped the web a little to create resources for my students. I needed tools to create assessments from open response to the multiple choice style of SAT/Accuplacer. On Friday afternoon I would meet with a group of teachers and we would help solve each others problems on Moodle, upgrade our servers, write scripts to help us harness the power of technology. I think the potential in the education sphere is limitless.

	My software skills have always been in service of a particular task at hand. As a PhD student in cognitive science the name of the game was building model of how the brain accomplished pattern recognition, memory, vision and motor control. We would run simulations all night long on every available server at Boston University.		My software skills have always been in service of a particular task at hand. As a PhD student in cognitive science the name of the game was building model of how the brain accomplished pattern recognition, memory, vision and motor control. We would run simulations all night long on every available server at Boston University. As a builder I used AutoCad to creat 3d wireframes of the houses I was building and then wrote lisp routines that would create all the building elements, sized, labeled and illustrated.

			Perhaps I am not the perfect fit for this position. I ask that you factor in my experience in the classroom and my passion for creating software solutions. Thank you for your consideration.

			Timothy McKenna

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Tim: /* wireless generation */

2012-01-22T03:38:01Z

wireless generation

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	Six years as a teacher in a school where every student had a laptop has proven to me that technology has the power to transform education. I like the work you have done in writing and see your company as well positioned to expand and realize the potential of students.		Six years as a teacher in a school where every student had a laptop has proven to me that technology has the power to transform education. I like the work you have done in writing and see your company as well positioned to expand and realize the potential of students.

	In my classes all students work was online and visible to every other student in the school. Students were writing for each other almost as much as they were writing for their teacher. As writing became part of their identity, their identity expanded to include their take on Macbeth or on the style of Steinbeck.		In my classes all students work was online and visible to every other student in the school. Students were writing for each other almost as much as they were writing for their teacher. As writing became part of their identity, their identity expanded to include their take on Macbeth or the style of Steinbeck.

	To do that required hacking Mediawiki to be able to inject pages into each students repository. I accessed the API's of Quizlet and Visual Thesaurus to create resources for my students. I needed tools to create assessments from open response to the ~~kind~~ of SAT/		To do that required hacking Mediawiki to be able to inject pages into each students repository. I accessed the API's of Quizlet and Visual Thesaurus to create resources for my students. I needed tools to create assessments from open response to the multiple choice style of SAT/Accuplacer. On Friday afternoon I would meet with a group of teachers and we would help solve each others problems on Moodle, upgrade our servers, write scripts to help us harness the power of technology. I think the potential in the education sphere is limitless.

			My software skills have always been in service of a particular task at hand. As a PhD student in cognitive science the name of the game was building model of how the brain accomplished pattern recognition, memory, vision and motor control. We would run simulations all night long on every available server at Boston University.

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Tim: /* tim */

2012-01-22T03:28:03Z

tim

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	Six years as a teacher in a school where every student had a laptop has proven to me that technology has the power to transform education. I like the work you have done in writing and see your company as well positioned to expand and realize the potential of students.		Six years as a teacher in a school where every student had a laptop has proven to me that technology has the power to transform education. I like the work you have done in writing and see your company as well positioned to expand and realize the potential of students.

			In my classes all students work was online and visible to every other student in the school. Students were writing for each other almost as much as they were writing for their teacher. As writing became part of their identity, their identity expanded to include their take on Macbeth or on the style of Steinbeck.

			To do that required hacking Mediawiki to be able to inject pages into each students repository. I accessed the API's of Quizlet and Visual Thesaurus to create resources for my students. I needed tools to create assessments from open response to the kind of SAT/

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	:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12		:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12
	:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule		:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule
	:*in their writing. Eventually students have a better understanding of the words and ideas and can write about the topic (http://pathboston.com/hum2/User:Carmen_Morales/Reconstruction) responding to prompts and open ended question that I can inject into their mediawiki user pages.		:*in their writing. Eventually students have a better understanding of the words and ideas and can write about the topic (http://pathboston.com/hum2/User:Carmen_Morales/Reconstruction) responding to prompts and open ended question that I can inject into their mediawiki user pages.

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===

Tim at 03:12, 22 January 2012

2012-01-22T03:12:53Z

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			Six years as a teacher in a school where every student had a laptop has proven to me that technology has the power to transform education. I like the work you have done in writing and see your company as well positioned to expand and realize the potential of students.



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	phone interview on 11/29/11 with Steve Edwards.		phone interview on 11/29/11 with Steve Edwards.

Tim at 22:27, 29 November 2011

2011-11-29T22:27:01Z

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	I just had a phone interview. Thanks for organizing it. Steve Edwards asked that I forward other sample scripts.		I just had a phone interview. Thanks for organizing it. Steve Edwards asked that I forward other sample scripts.

	On the phone I referred him to a Github repository of a site that helps small groups organize projects that take s place on a specific date. The link to the repository is: http://github.com:mckennatim/OBsoup The prototype site is at http://soupteam.com.		On the phone I referred him to a Github repository of a site that helps small groups organize projects that take s place on a specific date. The link to the repository is: http://github.com:mckennatim/OBsoup The prototype site is at http://soupteam.com. If it still has a bunch of silly soup names it isn't live, you can create an account to see it work.

	Steve asked for links to scripts that I wrote and used as a teacher. Here they are:		Steve asked for links to scripts that I wrote and used as a teacher. Here they are:
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	:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12		:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12
	:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule		:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule
	:*in their writing. Eventually students have a better understanding of the words and ideas and can write about the topic: http://pathboston.com/hum2/User:Carmen_Morales/Reconstruction		:*in their writing. Eventually students have a better understanding of the words and ideas and can write about the topic (http://pathboston.com/hum2/User:Carmen_Morales/Reconstruction) responding to prompts and open ended question that I can inject into their mediawiki user pages.

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===

Tim at 22:22, 29 November 2011

2011-11-29T22:22:46Z

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	:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12		:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12
	:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule		:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule
			:*in their writing. Eventually students have a better understanding of the words and ideas and can write about the topic: http://pathboston.com/hum2/User:Carmen_Morales/Reconstruction

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===

Tim at 22:15, 29 November 2011

2011-11-29T22:15:27Z

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	;get the definitions: this is a scraping operation that goes out on the web and finds definitions and parts of speech and maybe another sample sentence. Then it takes the word definition, context etc. and posts it to various tables and categorizes it by topic unit and course. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrab/vocabgrab.html stick in the wordlist link and for source type in 'mule' (jquery autocomplete) but you won't see much of anything (code on github))		;get the definitions: this is a scraping operation that goes out on the web and finds definitions and parts of speech and maybe another sample sentence. Then it takes the word definition, context etc. and posts it to various tables and categorizes it by topic unit and course. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrab/vocabgrab.html stick in the wordlist link and for source type in 'mule' (jquery autocomplete) but you won't see much of anything (code on github))
	;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)		;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)
	;use the vocab: Now those words are available in lots of ways.		;use the vocab: Now those words are available in lots of ways. Among them:
	:*as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html		:*as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html
	:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12		:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12

Tim: /* Edmodo */

2011-11-29T22:14:28Z

Edmodo

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	:*as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html		:*as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html
	:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12		:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12
			:*as reference on the course http://pathboston.com/hum2 wiki: http://pathboston.com/hum2/Vocabulary#40_acres_and_a_mule

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===

Tim: /* Edmodo */

2011-11-29T22:10:30Z

Edmodo

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	;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)		;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)
	;use the vocab: Now those words are available in lots of ways.		;use the vocab: Now those words are available in lots of ways.
	:as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html		:*as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html
			:*as practice tests/games under student control: http://quizlet.com/4648896/test/?written=on&mult_choice=on&tf=on&ignore-case=1&ignore-punct=1&ignore-parenth=1&prompt-def=1&limit=12

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===

Tim: /* Edmodo */

2011-11-29T22:03:03Z

Edmodo

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	;get the definitions: this is a scraping operation that goes out on the web and finds definitions and parts of speech and maybe another sample sentence. Then it takes the word definition, context etc. and posts it to various tables and categorizes it by topic unit and course. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrab/vocabgrab.html stick in the wordlist link and for source type in 'mule' (jquery autocomplete) but you won't see much of anything (code on github))		;get the definitions: this is a scraping operation that goes out on the web and finds definitions and parts of speech and maybe another sample sentence. Then it takes the word definition, context etc. and posts it to various tables and categorizes it by topic unit and course. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrab/vocabgrab.html stick in the wordlist link and for source type in 'mule' (jquery autocomplete) but you won't see much of anything (code on github))
	;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)		;verify definitions: Here I needed a tool to verify and modify the 10-15% of the definitions that were incorrect for the context. This is also where usage submitted by kids for extra credit shows up. (http://pathboston.com/assess/vocabgrid/uses.html# 'select source articles' gets you a list. Alas this is why I don't use ajax. It only works in browsers of the firefox 6 generation)
	;use the vocab; Now those words are available in lots of ways		;use the vocab: Now those words are available in lots of ways.
			:as part of a comp/vocab quiz: http://pathboston.com/assess/combine/createCquiz.php?compques=mule%2C+&quesfrom=mule.1.1%2C+&choicefrom=mule%2C+theNadir%2C+FrederickDouglass%2C+reconstruction%2C+&numques=14&percentcomp=45&quiztype=html

	===City on a Hill===		===City on a Hill===