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Nov 5

November Consulting Days: 12th and 15th

The StatPREP consulting days for this month are :

  • Tuesday 12 Nov
  • Friday 15 Nov.

Consulting days are one of the ways StatPREP provides ongoing support <!–more—-> to project participants.

  • Trying a new data set in your class, but need some help getting everything organized?
  • A lesson or activity from the workshops you want to implement, but don’t remember the details?
  • Wondering how the parts of statistics fit together?
  • Need a bit of help with R or Markdown or deploying data or documents to the web?
  • Just want to talk some things out?

Sign up ON THIS CALENDAR for a 30 minute session or two sessions back to back. (You’ll land on the calendar for today, so page forward to get to the actual consulting day.) Our doors are open all day, from 8am Eastern to 5pm Pacific.

We meet via web conference, at https://appear.in/mosaic-web. All you need is a browser on a computer with microphone (and at your option) camera.

Try it out!

Nov 4

Dan Adrian’s Happy Apps

Dan has written a new set of apps to help in teaching intro stats. In this post, Dan lists and briefly describes his “Happy Apps.”

How do the Happy Apps relate to the StatPREP project’s Little Apps? The Little Apps are rooted in displays of data; statistical concepts are always directly put in the context of such displays. The Happy Apps have graphics oriented to methods and the statistical theory behind them. These are two different pedagogies for teaching statistics.

And now, here’s Dan Adrian …

Introducing the Happy Apps collection, a baker’s dozen of R Shiny apps for introductory statistics at the undergraduate (or AP Stats) level. Each is a dynamic visual aid addressing a specific concept or topic in intro stats. They make nice visual aids to add to a lecture, or teachers Read more

Oct 23

November Webinar

The November webinar will discuss assessment ideas. It is on November 5th at 3 pm EST. , 2 pm CST, 1pm MST, and noon PST. Check back for the description and sign up link.

Assessment is an integral part of instruction, as it determines whether or not learning goals are being met and makes us ask, “Are students learning what they are supposed to be learning?” Learn how to use the StatPREP Little Apps to make meaningful assessments during this month’s webinar!

To register click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A3ufz0xPSF2OTzqhG3UBhA

Oct 8

October StatPREP Webinar

MAA Connect Webinar
  • Looking for ways to connect with other StatPREP participants across the country?  Do you want to share the wonderful innovated data centric ways you’re teaching your intro stats course?  Join the conversation on MAA connect. This webinar will show you how to get onto MAA connect whether you’re an MAA member or not as well as going over the basics of MAA connect.   

Oct 7

Consulting days start in October!

  • Trying a new data set in your class, but need some help getting everything organized?
  • A lesson or activity from the workshops you want to implement, but don’t remember the details?
  • Wondering how the parts of statistics fit together?
  • Need a bit of help with R or Markdown or deploying data or documents to the web?
  • Just want to talk things out?

Help is on the way!

As part of our ongoing outreach with statistics instructors, StatPREP.org offers free consulting sessions. You can sign up for one on the 2nd Tuesday or 3rd Friday of each month.

Sign up ON THIS CALENDAR for a 30 minute session or two sessions back to back. (You may need to page forward through the weeks to find the next available date.)

We’ll meet via web conference, at https://appear.in/mosaic-web. All you need is a browser on a computer with microphone (and at your option) camera.

Tuesday Oct 8
Friday Oct 18

Tuesday Nov 12
Friday Nov 15

Tuesday Dec 10
Friday Dec 20

Tuesday Jan 14
Friday Jan 17

We welcome both veterans of our summer workshops and statistics instructors who are new to StatPREP.org.  Your friendly consultant for these first sessions will be Danny Kaplan.

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