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Moving All to Tech4MathEd
I had a very productive and busy day! I spent it moving my blog to a sub-folder of my domain (tech4mathed) and then moved my entire work website from the college’s server over to my tech4mathed folder (that was no small task – I have created a huge website full of materials over the past 10 years!).
Finally I created a page for my consulting background and a new home page. Whew! There are still updates needed to be made, but at least it is all moved over.
I finally have every professional “hat” I wear connected on the same website with links to everything I have accomplished and still hope to accomplish. I have wanted to do this for a while, but it seemed like just too big of a job! It did take all day, but it will be so much easier to manage everything now.
For those of you who follow me on twitter, I will be phasing out my @suegmc twitter account and will only be using my @tech4mathed and my @northstarbridge accounts to keep everything updated.
Please take a look at the website at www.tech4mathed.com and let me know if there are any dead links, I would really appreciate it! Any ideas for improvement would be welcomed too!
Sue Glascoe
tech4mathed
New Opportunities for Growth
I have not blogged much about my own teaching with technology in the past couple months. Instead, I have tried to write about others who I admire and what they are doing to help move mathematics education into the 21st century……This is because I have been on medical leave for a broken foot. I was successful for a short while teaching with the Mobi from a stationary spot in each classroom, but I was still having to walk to three different buildings and my foot was not healing. My doctor advised me to go on medical leave and let it heal. I have missed my students terribly, and am disappointed not to be able to try the new online projects I had planned for the semester. It was hard not being able to do any training this past semester as well. I have been given a doctor’s release to go back to teaching again in the spring, and I am excited to dig my heels back into teaching and learning with technology!
I do have other exciting news to share as well (besides getting to start teaching again in the spring): AMATYC Project ACCCESS invited me to serve as a Consulting Colleague (mentor) for the 2011-12 Project ACCCESS Fellows! They even sent me the contact information for the Fellow I will be directly advising on her project so I can get started today! It will be amazing to be in a cohort of established teachers who will be mentoring, along with Fellows who are new teachers wanting to learn more about the scholarship of teaching at a 2 year college. The Fellow I am mentoring is working on a project to include technology, like the Livescribe smartpen, into her Hybrid college courses to help her students. I feel so honored to be chosen to assist in guiding her progress, and help her to evaluate her project.
To learn more about the AMATYC ACCCESS program, go to the link: AMATYC Project ACCCESS .
to learn more about the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges, go to: AMATYC
I can’t wait to get started and to share the experiences I have in working as a Consulting Colleague in this amazing program!
My Customer-Story Video for Livescribe
I was asked by Livescribe if I would give my testimonial as a college instructor using the Livescribe pen for my math classes. I had so much fun making the video with the team!
Amazing how they can shrink 2 hours of “discussion” (with many retakes I might add!) into a minute and a half of produced video!
They interviewed 7 people in different professions to show how each of us enhances our work with the help of our Livescribe smartpen.
To see all 7 videos, go to the Livescribe Home Page and click on my photo on the bottom of the page. (OK, I share the photo with three other people, but I made the home page!)
I still own my original 1 GB Pulse and now the new Echo smartpen, and I am so thankful for having such great technology to teach with! I am also finding great ways to use my smarpens in everyday life, too!
Here is my Livescribe Story posted on YouTube:
Getting Published!
I wrote an article for Community College Week magazine about how I use technology to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside of my classes. I was excited to find out last week that they accepted my article and it was published recently!
To find the article online, you need to click on the Community College Week website, and then click on the green “Technology Update” image to download the PDF. The article I wrote starts on page 13.
Community College Week’s website
Teaching with the Mobi
Here is a video of me teaching with the Mobi (recorded by my students)
Here is a link if you want to see it IN YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ftSlZ-UVA
I recorded this as part of the interview process for becoming a Certified National Instructor for eInstructor. I was accepted into the program and the training is in MD next week! I can’t wait to learn even more about all their products and how to use them to enhance my own classroom and online experiences for my students!
