Well that’s a pretty resounding WTF.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AkytVXBS75t-dDdQaWFEREhzS2laTEI3VGY3RFVhMFE&output=html
Process
Hoop Diagrams and other process related posts.
Burning Man Ticket Survey
This is a quick independent survey about tickets for Burning Man in 2012. There are only four multiple choice questions in the survey total.
After years of organizing The Spin Cycle Camp, I did not receive a ticket in the 2012 lottery system. Grant and the others who build our camp didn’t receive one of the first 40,000 tickets either. In fact, so far I’ve only heard of a handful of people who received tickets out of the 100 people who camped with us last year. This survey is really just for my own curiosity. I’ll post results here and on Facebook.
Detailed Real-Time Survey Results
(Go to Form>Show Summary of Responses for graphs)
Here is a formatted PDF of results, as of 1:00 on Tuesday February 2nd, 2012.
I’ll be updating the PDF in the next day.
HOOP HIGH – Choreography Demo SET 1 AND 2 – Basement Jaxx Music Video
My story with GradeCam
Many know I’ve left architecture for the time being and work full time at a education start-up. My role ranges from strategic partnerships to marketing material to user interface design. I just finished this animation about out new free product for teachers. With a bit of sweat, I think we’ll replace Scantron forever.
I’m proud to be working on a product that can actually improve the quality of education. When teachers get instant feedback in the classroom, they can adjust teaching based on what the students do and do not know. This makes a huge difference.
The two main types of tests are “formative assessment” and “summative assessment”. A summative assessment (assessment = test in this context ) is a test you receive at the end of a learning period. This is the tests we’re all familiar with. You get a grade and your grade in the class reflects the score.
There’s a big push in education now for formative assessment, although the term is often misused. Formative assessments are given on a regular basis and are used so that the teacher knows what the students know. The point of a formative assessment is not to give the student a grade, it’s for the teacher to keep their finger on the pulse of the learning process. If everyone already knows ‘x’ but doesn’t know ‘y’, then the teacher should focus on teaching ‘y’. Without formative assessments, a teacher has a hard time keeping track of where students are at.
But here’s the tricky part.. testing means taking the time to grade and means data entry into gradebooks. If a middle school teacher has 6 classes with 30 students each, grading one assignment per day would mean 900 pieces of paper to grade in a week. And to make that worse, if you want to add that info to a gradebook, that’s 900 pieces of data entry to put in a spreadsheet. This creates an untenable situation for the teacher.
That’s why my mom came up with the idea for GradeCam. She was teaching 7th grade at the time and overwhelmed with data entry. She went back to college as a non traditional student to leave secretarial work and become a teacher… only to spend her weekends doing tedious data entry. Luckily my brother is a programming genius and wrote the software.
Now I’m working on making GradeCam available to all teachers everywhere.
We’re releasing a free teacher edition next week and a new website will be launching in just a few days.
Sasha DiGiulian climb 9a (5.14d)—the hardest problem in US women’s climbing history.
Sasha DiGiulian. “Pure Imagination” 5.14d (9a). from Adidas Outdoor on Vimeo.
Wow. That just made me want to go out and accomplish something! I love how the video documents the process, not just the completion. It’s beautifully shot too.
Sponsorship! We need sponsorship to come into hooping at some point. In climbing, skating and other sports some people are sponsored. Sponsorship allows those people to stay focused on what they do rather than making money. It also provides opportunity for proper documentation. This beautiful video probably had three camera operators shooting. Not that level of sophistication now but it would be sweet if someone was sponsoring hoopers, providing them with a handful of gopro HD cameras, editing services, and support, just to slap a logo on the end. I’d take that deal.
NOELTECH#30: Monkey Hooping with Simon Purdie
The Hooping Life Playing Cards
I actually haven’t even seen these yet but I’m excited to get a set. Apparently I’m the King of Spades. Hah. I’m such a dark character! Ahhhh haaa haaa ha!!! jk :)
As far as I know Philo is the Jack of Diamonds, Khan is the Jack of Hearts, Spiral is the Queen of Spades, Michelle Clark is the 7 of Clubs, Kamala Mathis is the 9 of Hearts, Deanne Love is 7 of Hearts and I have no inside info on this but I’d bet just about anything that Stefan is one of Jokers if not both. I can’t wait to see them all!
Spin Summit
Thank you so much Spin Summit for having me! It was amazing. Throwing hoops on the roof of the tent was the hi-light of my trip.
I apologize for being slow on this but I wanted to post a class outline. I decided to teach an incredibly challenging sequence and everyone was able to get most of the parts, and about a 1/3 were able to assemble it all together. This sequence is my big tada sequence and so many could do it!
So here’s the sequence:
The sequence isn’t completed in this old vid but all the parts are there. This vid is right around the time I pieced this all together.
Also, I’d like to post the vid of the first day Beth and I hooped together at Mission Delores. This was also the day I met Khan, who quikly became one of my best friends.
Cheb I Sabbah Health Care Fund
Please donate to the Cheb I Sabbah Health Care fund if you can.
It’s hard to post this. Cheb I Sabbah isn’t doing well. If you made the 2009 Burning Man Hoop Jam, you know Chebiji. Many will know Chebiji from Bassnectar’s track linked at the bottom. I grew up hooping to this track.
Years later, Lauren and I had the opportunity to meet and connect with him a several times through dinner parties at Janaka’s with our deer friend Saba.
Janaka called me from the hospital the other day as I was boarding a plane to North Carolina. Chebiji has stomach cancer, no insurance, and he’s not doing well. On July 8th, Janaka and friends are organizing a fundraiser to get Chebiji the help he needs.
Dear Friends and Fans of Cheb i Sabbah:
Recently, our dear friend and musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer at San Francisco General Hospital. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung. Without immediate and proper treatment, the prognosis given is very grim. The phrase “weeks maybe months” was repeated to a devastated group of close friends and family who were there to support him as he received the heartbreaking news.
More here: http://chebisabbah.org/
I’ll be performing on July 8th at 1015 Folsom with Janaka, Karsh Kale and others. I chatted with Anah and she’ll be there too. Spiral is probably in as well. Please com out and support Chebiji.
Thank you,
xoR
Barcelona, What’s Up! Shakti Sunfire needs some hoops!
Shakti will be coming to teach hooping at the Barcelona Yoga Conference. She’s needing to locate 40 hoops or tubing to make 40 hoops in Barcelona. According to google analytics, people have visited Isopop.com in Barcelona in the last month. So, Barcelona peeps, if ya wanna help Shakti get some hoops in Barcelona, hit me up at rich@isopop.com. Thanks!
This is sorta just an experiment too. I wonder if this will work :)
