{"id":125,"date":"2013-05-11T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:01:55","slug":"smooth-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/11\/smooth-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth Sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1081-1265078957dNw9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126 alignleft\" alt=\"1081-1265078957dNw9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1081-1265078957dNw9-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1081-1265078957dNw9-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1081-1265078957dNw9.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The course has been running live now for almost a week, and so far it&#8217;s been smooth sailing. There have been a few little bumps: one student signed up for the July class a few days after the May class began on the 5th, so I offered him the chance to jump into this one, and he accepted. A little database magic and he was enrolled. And I heard today that one of the videos had about 30 seconds of black in the middle. Luckily, that was easy to fix. I was kind of dreading getting the new file live on Vimeo, because I feared it would turn into a snarl of many little changes. Happily, Vimeo has a &#8220;replace video&#8221; button! Easy. Tomorrow night the first week of homework assignments arrive. I can&#8217;t wait to see what these folks come up with!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;ve been writing some supplementary materials. I wrote a document on how I solved a little geometry problem, which I hope will help other people get into the groove of solving these things for themselves when they arise (that&#8217;s available on this blog in the entry http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/solving-geometry-problems\/ ). I&#8217;m now working on a document that covers figuring things out with triangles, which explains where things like sine and cosine come from, and how to use them. I&#8217;ve actually written the whole darn document twice already, as I search for the simplest and most clear way to communicate the material. I&#8217;m currently writing version number 3, sitting out on my back deck with my dog, soaking up the rare Seattle sun. It&#8217;s definitely not the fastest way to work, but it&#8217;s certainly enjoyable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The course has been running live now for almost a week, and so far it&#8217;s been smooth sailing. There have been a few little bumps: one student signed up for the July class a few days after the May class began on the 5th, so I offered him the chance to jump into this one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}