danaleeling

In the fall of 2016 I shifted my statistics course from the use of LibreOffice.org's spreadsheet to Google Sheets. Google Sheets had matured as a product and would allow my students to complete their homework on mobile devices and pads. I rewrote my statistics text around Google Sheets. The following fall the failure of a fairly young Windows laptop computer and my use of Google Sheets prompted me to ask the college to experimentally provide me with a ChromeBook as a replacement for the work laptop that had failed. The ChromeBook was the first at the college and certainly the least expensive laptop ever acquired. Meanwhile, on the home front, the failure of an Ubuntu box led to the acquisition of a ChromeBase unit. The unit at the house saw multiple users over the next two years with no issues, no malware, and no training needed. In the spring of 2018 the college purchased licensing for Schoology Institutional, which opened up the option of using Google Drive Assignments. All ...

Rain bands precluded the planned twenty-two plant across campus walk. At 14:20 I made the decision that the 16:20 final would have to be re-routed. I had never attempted a final that remained under the covered walkways, I needed to see what might be possible. That walk generated the specific plant list for the final examination . I began with the Premna serratifolia. One student ventured out into the light rain to see the plant from up close. I then continued to the west, following the sequence outlined in my pre-walk . Darnick near the Ixora coccinea. I had the Ixora coccinea stand in for the Ixora casei out in the cemetery, asking the students to identify the plant in the cemetery rather than the I. coccinea. The class was, as usual, scattered along the walkway. Nayme and Joe make identifications. The class moves from Ponapea ledermanniana to the back of the south faculty building. Here I subbed Cocos nucifera along the road in for Nostoc. Walk's end ...

A steady rain means that the ethnobotany final is likely to be held under the covered walkways. Falcataria moluccana, Premna serratifolia Terminalia catappa Eugenia uniflora Psidium guajava Eugenia uniflora option two Pterocarpus indicus Ixora coccinea as stand in for Ixora casei Morinda citrifolia Centella asiatica Phymatosorus scolopendria Davallia solida Araucaria columnaris Ponapea ledermanniana Nostoc Gardenia jasminoides Gardenia taitensis Jasminum sambac Cymbopogon citratus Pteris tripartita Cyclosorus maemonensis Cyclosorus maemonensis Glochidion ramiflorum Plumeria obtusa Carica papaya Sphagneticola trilobata