Dwees Design

As you know, a colleague and I are working on our new school website. This part of a series of blog posts explaining what we have done.

The very first task we did was to look at the information we were provided on the needs of the school in terms of menu layout and functionality. This was actually fairly easily done since we had spent the previous year working in a committee. From this, we decided on a menu structure and overall plan for our site.

I'm going to be working with a partner to create a Drupal site for my school. We have a full month to work on the main details of the site, and will work on improving it over the course of the whole year.

The idea is that we want to build a site which will serve as a marketing front-end for the school, and as an way to distribute information to parents and students from the school, and allow teachers to collaborate with each other and their students.

I know that Drupal can do the job. I plan on using this blog to document my process.

What this script does it allow the user to enter their text into a box, and when they click submit, it sends the information via Ajax to a server side script that processes the information and creates an animated gif from the information. The server side script (written in PHP) then sends back the location of the image, and the client side JavaScript updates the page with the image.

It doesn't have any features really, but it should pretty easy to add some.

Here is the link to the original post

So I've created a script which takes some user input, and lets them search for all of the words in either the TWL06 or SOWPODS dictionary for words which match their input.

Some features:

1. The order that the user enters the letters doesn't matter.
2. The user can specify the exact location of some of the letters in the word
3. The user can use up to two wildcards in the letters (to represent blanks).

If you drag point C left or right, you can see the point D travel in a spiral shape.

Please install Java 1.4 (or later) to use this page.

The following constructions are all conic sections (as I was teaching this section to my 10th grade students) and are 'quick and dirty' constructions of conic sections. All you need to do in the examples is drag the point C left and right to see the shapes show up.

Parabola:

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Ellipse:

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Hyperbola:

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I got it working on Ubuntu. Turns out the problem was my version of Java, I had 5, Geogebra says it wants 4, but apparently on Ubuntu it actually needs 6.

Whatever, it works, cheer! I love Geogebra, I'm not ready to give it up.

So I just started using Ubuntu, and decided that I needed to set up my Ubuntu installation with all of the cool cross-platform programs I've been using in Windows. I swapped Wamp5 for Lampp, and am using Eclipse successfully instead of Programmer'as Notepad. It's only been a couple of days, but so far I am pretty happy. Apt-get is my new favourite command.

You can use this applet to show your students how to examine cubic polynomials and determine the effect of changing the 4 coefficients of the equation .

Please install Java 1.4 (or later) to use this page.

This applet is an attempt to show that the area of any triangle with a fixed base and height (but different shape!) has the same area.

You can drag point right and left, and see that the area of the triangle remains the same. This applet also shows the height of the triangle and the base of the triangle, which are shown as being at 90^o.

Please install Java 1.4 (or later) to use this page.