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Maricopa Tech 2010 conference

I had the pleasure of spending yesterday with my colleagues from the Maricopa Community College District at our annual technology conference.   I gave a presentation with another math instructor on how to incorporate technology into our Hybrid courses to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics.   Donna’s introduced the presentation by describing Hybrid models, and gave details on the model she uses at SCC. She then introduced the Livescribe Pulse smartpen, and showed some sample online lessons she has created for her students.

When it was my turn, my main focus was on using technology both during in-class instruction and outside of class to help the students.   I also included theLivescribe Pulse smartpen in my part of the presentation, along with the  eInstruction Mobi and Workspace software.

If you missed it, my presentation was shown on an earlier post.  Here is a link to it

I sat at a table with many of my tech friends.  As we looked around we realized we probably had more tech toys at our table than the rest of the room put together!  One of them took a pic of SOME of the toys we had:

The really funny thing was there were more cell phones in the pile than people at the table!     I’m looking forward to hanging out with my tech friends and colleauges again soon!

 

Creating a Prezi for teaching Hybrid Math classes

I started using Prezi about a week or so ago, and this is my first attempt at creating a presentation with it. I LOVE the fact that is so non-linear!  Normally, being in math, I like things very linear.  However, a friend of mine has been using Prezi for her math presentations and they are really fun.     She uses a lot of fun artwork in hers as well.  I hope to do that with my next one.  I have a live-in artist (my son), who has already been hired to illustrate a children’s book at age 13!

In about 10 days I am presenting with a colleague of mine on teaching Hybrid Math classes at the community college level.   She and I are both avid  users of the Livescribe Pulse smartpen to help our students outside of class, so we thought we would present together.

If you get a chance, take a look at my presentation (knowing I will be talking through it – so there is no sound) and If you have any suggestions please let me know!  Thanks!

I finally had to get my OWN domain so I could embed flash into WordPress!

 

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