While at the California Mathematics Conference North conference at Asilomar last weekend, a memory (or was it a fever dream?) from the year 2020 flooded back to me… I spoke “at” CMC South once!

While CMC North is hosted at the gorgeous Asilomar Conference Grounds, CMC South is in Palm Springs. My master teacher and close friend Eben had the brilliant idea that we should speak there instead and make a little vacation out of it. We submitted our talk, got accepted, started planning, and then BAM – global pandemic. Our trip to Palm Springs was replaced with a half-baked video presentation that I’m not sure anyone watched. After last weekend, though, I decided to excavate it from the archives and post it here so that once again no one can watch it!

I’ll be honest, watching this video half a decade later is a huge cringe, and not just because of our shelter-in-place hair styles and rusty social skills. I was in the very start of my third year teaching, and I was clearly trying hard to sound like I knew what I was talking about. But to my credit, there are some teaching philosophies and practices that I had down from those early days, and I give a lot of credit to Eben for that. Anyways, let the roasting begin – here’s “Galileo’s Ramp: Project-Based Learning at a Distance”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B-QxvnJf7-BmuLa2Ta5i9LQ9VHSxYE-L/view?usp=sharing