*Screen capture taken with Snagit!
I helped a colleague with a Livescribe Pencast she wanted to use for her interview. She had an amazing idea! Read the details in my latest blog for Livescribe:
Archive for Mathcast
Replacing Overheads with Livescribe!
Welcome to the NEW domain for Tech4MathEd!
Welcome to my new “home”
I gave in…I became aware today of the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
I was using the FREE WordPress.com, but was not able to embed any of the flash based files I wanted to. So I took the plunge over to WordPress.org and got my own domain for a WordPress blog so NOW I can embed Flash!
I am still trying to decide on a theme, because the theme I was using there isn’t available here. I also need to straighten up some of the blog postings that got messed up in the transfer, but I WAS able to go ahead and embed EVERY file I had wanted to earlier, including: Livescribe pencasts, YouTube videos, Prezi presentations, Jing and Camtasia videos! Deep sigh of relief! I hope you will join me on the new site for my blog! I could use some suggestions on the theme, too 🙂
Sue Glascoe
~following my North Star!
Learning to use Camtasia (by TechSmith) – a great way to record my desktop!
I just downloaded Camtasia for both Mac and Windows. I happened to be on my Mac when a student emailed me with a homework question, so I thought I would respond and try out Camtasia for Mac at the same time! Here is the result.
I still need to learn to edit the video and add cool comments and arrows and all the other great stuff I “know” Camtasia can do. But I am willing to go ahead and share my very first screencast with you to show you how easy it is to get started!
Here is the link: http://www.screencast.com/t/MjQzMTA5ZGQt
I finally have my OWN domain so that now I CAN embed Flash! * added May 10,2010
I am a "published" author!
I was asked last week by Livescribe if I would be willing to write articles for their blog. I wrote my first post and it went up today.
Check it out!
“The Beginning of My Livescribe Pencast Journey”
http://www.edlivescribe.com/?p=1307
One of the best FREE tech tools – Jing
* I used Jing to crop out a graphic from their website!
Yesterday I finished grading a test that the students did poorly on. I wanted to show the students that the questions were ALL really covered both in class and on the homework, so I went about making a key to the test using materials from both! This is where Jing entered the picture…
Jing is an amazing FREE online application that you download to your computer for taking screen shots of part or all of your computer screen. It will also capture video with sound! I use it all the time when students email me with questions from the homework. I will open up their HW question on my computer, crop only the portion I want and write the answer on it (Jing allows you to annotate before saving your screen shot!) and then paste that back into my response email to them. I can even record my voice and send them a link to the recording that has me working out the problem! Back to the test key…
Well, I was so discouraged yesterday after grading their tests that I
1) scanned in my test key and made a PDF
2) opened up the online homework assignments from that chapter (I use course compass)
3) opened up ALL the daily in-class lessons from that chapter. I was able to save every example I did in class because I teach my courses with an eInstruction Mobi, and use their Interwrite Workspace software, which allows me to save my entire lesson for each class!
4) I then proceeded to crop each test question and place them onto a blank document, followed by my written solution, and then followed by EVERY related question cropped out of the homework, in-class lessons and also any online examples that I created.
I don’t think my students will question that every single question on the test was both taught in class and assigned in the homework now! It at least made ME feel better!
Here is one question from the test key:
The five page test became a twenty-three page online answer key, thanks to Jing!
To download your free copy of Jing, go to http://www.jingproject.com/
I do pay the $15 a year for JingPro, since it lets me record as an .mp4 file and it gets rid of the logo when you record. Worth every penny! Especially the free version 🙂
My next technology journey!
I have been having several interesting conversations with Roger Wagner, the creator of HyperStudio, lately about teaching with technology. He passed on some great teaching ideas! It would be really fun to use my Lumens DC265 document camera and HyperStudio 5 to create a stop-action movie! I could also record a “normal” movie and insert it into a HyperStudio stack to be part of a larger project for my students….the wheels are turning! I sure wish there were more than 24 hours in a day!
To learn more about HyperStudio go to: http://www.mackiev.com/hyperstudio/
Roger Wagner also has an area on Facebook for folks interested in sharing their ideas about how to use HyperStudio in education called HyperFest Central
If you use HyperStudio PLEASE send me some of your projects, I would LOVE to see them! I am just re-learning HyperStudio after taking a long vacation. When I create my first project I will be sure to share it here!
Using InterwriteWorkspace to record a lesson
I wanted to show my students a comparison of graphing a line to graphing a parabola. I quickly made a video using a Mobi and the Interwrite Workspace, both by eInstruction. The Interwrite Workspace allowed me to write on graph paper (using the pen on the Mobi) and to record everything I was writing and saying with their “record” tool! Not only was it a great introduction, but now that it is posted on the web, my students can go back and review it anytime they need to.
The WordPress blog won’t let me embed videos, so here is a link to the video
Teaching Rational Inequalities with pencasts
I am creating my online lesson for next week tonight. Thought I would share a few of the @Livescribe pencasts I made
Here is a more advanced problem:
The students really enjoy being able to watch and hear me work through an example
the same way I would work them in class and also to be able to pause and watch the video
as many times as they need to!
the same way I would work them in class and also to be able to pause and watch the video
as many times as they need to!
I love my Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen. My husband and kids gave it to me
last year for Mother’s day! Wonder what I will get this year?! 🙂
last year for Mother’s day! Wonder what I will get this year?! 🙂
Recording with a Lumens document camera
I just got a Lumens DC265 Ladibug document camera to try out! I created a couple of videos for my students using it. It is amazing!
Here is the first video I made for my Intermediate Algebra students, showing how to put quadratics into “vertex form”.
Here is one of the videos I made using it for my Intermediate Algebra students, showing how to derive the Vertex Formula.
I am finding it much easier to embed the videos straight from YouTube, rather than trying to change the format of every tool I have to work well with Dreamweaver and other website software I use.
InterwriteWorkspace and YouTube
Today I derived the Quadratic Formula for my students in class. I promised them I would do some sort of pencast later and post it, so I told them not to take notes on it.
I ended up using my eInstruction Mobi and pen to write on the Interwrite Workspace software. Interwrite Workspace is also from eInstruction, and it has a built-in tool to record video and audio! It worked really well! I love the fact you can see color and also my mouse movement, in case I want to refer back to something I already wrote.
The software saves the video as a .avi file, and so I uploaded it quickly to YouTube so my student could access it easily. I also posted a link to the video on my website.
I am really enjoying having a variety of tools available to use to record part of a lesson or to write examples that I want my students to view again later when they are working on their homework.
