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Gary Anderson has been involved in educational technology for most of his professional life, first as the general manager of a large computer store in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, then as a software developer, and for the past dozen years he has joined the rest of his family in a career as a teacher.
See [[User:Gary_Anderson]] for a detailed description of my background.


His research interest is investigating ways that students, when given quick feedback, can improve the effectiveness of learning.
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He is the Math Department Chair of Seattle Academy, a private college-prep school, where he teaches second-year Calculus, Advanced Algebra, and a sequence of math electives including statistics, math modeling, and software development.
I will use subpages of my talk area to make more detailed observations and analysis of current Moodle issues that may not work well in the tracker, the forums, or other areas of Moodle's documentation.


He has extensively customized Moodle for the classroom environment with a couple dozen sets of patches (see [[Seattle_Academy]]), a handful of blocks, and 2 activity modules including one based on the theory of spaced repetition.  He is now also customizing Mediawiki to work well in the high school environment.
# [[User_talk:Gary_Anderson/The uses of Extra Credit | The benefit of Extra Credit]]
# [[User_talk:Gary_Anderson/Examples of Extra Credit grading | Examples of Extra Credit grading]]

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See Gary Anderson for a detailed description of my background.


I will use subpages of my talk area to make more detailed observations and analysis of current Moodle issues that may not work well in the tracker, the forums, or other areas of Moodle's documentation.

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