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Getting ready for ISTE 2010 in Denver!

June 10, 2010 Conferences, CPS Clickers, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, feedback, Mobi, Presentations, Student participation, Technology One comment

Over the next few weeks I will posting about some Educational Technology companies I will be presenting for, and working with, at ISTE 2010 in Denver.

Today I had a chat with some colleagues at eInstruction about my role for them at ISTE.  I was selected to be one of the original cadre of National Certified Instructors for eInstruction, and recently underwent a fantastic 3-day training event in Maryland!   I met some amazing teachers there, and learned more about several educational (and inspirational) products that I am very excited to share with other teachers at ISTE!

I will be working in one of eInstruction’s  “sharing stations” (my terminology, not eInstruction’s)  helping teachers form ideas on how to use the Mobi, the CPS Pulse clickers and Interwrite Workspace, to enhance any classroom activity or lesson.

The Interwrite Workspace software is the “heart” of the collaboration between the Mobi and the Clickers in an interative classroom experience.    This software allows the teacher to present their lesson using any software on their computer or website, and then have students participate with the activity or lesson with both Mobis and CPS Pulse Clickers for immediate feedback.   The Mobi also allows the teacher to walk around the room and engage with their students on a more personal and interactive level.

The Mobi is a mobile interactive whiteboard:

The CPS Pulse clickers work seemlessly to send immediate feedback to the LCD screen on the Mobi, and allows the students to input anything from letters and numbers, to math symbols!

If you plan on being at ISTE 2010 in Denver, please stop by the eInstruction booth and say hi!

 

My Calendar is growing!

June 7, 2010 Animationish, CPS Clickers, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Jing, Livescribe, Livescribe, Lumens DC265 Ladibug document camera, Mobi, Presentations, Technology, Training One comment

Just a quick update to share how excited I am at all the invites I am getting to present, give hands-on workshops, and also to train on the technology I am using to teach my math classes!

I added my speaking/teaching/training events to a calendar on the right side of the page.  Check it out!

Just today I  set the date with the administration of my college to train them on how to use the Livescribe Pulse smartpen!  I better get some of the pens that just arrived ready to use!

 

CPS Pulse clickers and Workspace – great for immediate feedback!

May 24, 2010 CPS Clickers, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, feedback, Mathcast, Mobi, Student participation, Technology One comment

I spent some time today playing with my eInstruction CPS Pulse (clickers) and the Mobi software called Workspace.   I wanted to create a short “how to” video on getting immediate feedback from your students while teaching a class.    One of the best features is that you don’t have to design the questions ahead of time!  In this video I will show you how to ask any question during class, get immediate feedback of your class as a whole, and then be able to look at more detailed feedback from individual students  at a later time.  You can do this at any point during the class, even when the students are asking questions about the homework!

here is a link to the YouTube video

 

Maricopa Tech 2010 conference

May 19, 2010 Conferences, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Livescribe, Livescribe, Mobi, Presentations One comment

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!

 

Welcome to the NEW domain for Tech4MathEd!

May 10, 2010 Camtasia, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Flash, Flash, Jing, Livescribe, Livescribe, Mathcast, Prezi, Software One comment

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!

 

Teaching with the Mobi

May 6, 2010 Bio, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Mobi, Student participation One comment

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!

 

Learning to use Camtasia (by TechSmith) – a great way to record my desktop!

May 4, 2010 Camtasia, eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Helping students, Mathcast, Software 2 comments

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

 

Using InterwriteWorkspace to record a lesson

April 22, 2010 eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Mathcast, Mobi, Software One comment

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

 

InterwriteWorkspace and YouTube

April 8, 2010 eInstruction Interwrite Workspace, Mathcast, Mobi, Technology Comments Off on 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.

Link to the video on YouTube

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.

 
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