Here is a link to the workshop I did at ICTCM 2014 in San Antonio this year.
Presenting lessons and creating videos using Doceri on the iPad.
https://sites.google.com/site/ictcm2014glascoe/
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Doceri Workshop at ICTCM 2014
My Google Website From the ACTEaz Workshop
Today I gave a 3 1/2 hour hands-on workshop on teaching with technology, in Tucson, AZ
Looking at the screenshot of my website for the workshop above, you can see the major topics were:
- Animationish (FableVision Learning)
- Google websites
- Jing (TechSmith)
- Livescribe Pulse smartpen
- Workspace (eInstruction – comes with the Mobi)
To see the full workshop, along with all the materials presented, you can visit my google website for the workshop. During the workshop I presented with the Mobi, and had the participants often answer questions using the CPS Pulse clickers (eInstruction). It was really a lot of fun!
If you view the workshop website, to have it make more sense, scroll down on the HOME page to see the schedule and follow the links IN ORDER that are in the schedule. When you make a google website, the side links are alphabetical, NOT in the order I presented them in!
The workshop was in a computer lab, so each participant was on a laptop. My 13 (soon to be 14) year old son was my technical helper during the entire workshop, walking around helping anyone who had questions. He also taught the part of the workshop on Animationish! He did a fantastic job and I was very grateful to have him with me! I hope he can help me during my 8 hour workshop I am giving in October! 🙂
Fun creating a Flash Animation for a 3D image in 3D!
Today I spent quite a few hours building “blocks” (cubes) from scratch in Flash and placing them into
3 dimensional space to fill a rectangular prism!
It was a visually interesting problem to try to figure out which cubes to put in first, and
which ones had to be on a higher layer in Flash then the other ones!
Plus I had to try to get them to “fit” into a geometric rectangular prism. (OK, I gave up, they didn’t fit exactly!)
The end product wasn’t too bad though! (this is a JING video taken of just part of the Flash animation)
My Next Adventure in Teaching
In just a couple weeks I will be down in Tucson, AZ giving a hands-on workshop to teachers and administrators. They will have full versions of software in a computer lab to play with!
A representative from the AZ Department of Education emailed me and asked me if I would give a workshop this summer on using technology to teach math, and I jumped at the chance!
I, however, did not write up the introduction to my workshop, as you can see below:
I am actually teaching more than the Livescribe Pulse smartpen in my 3 1/2 hours. I am also going to focus on Animationish (FableVision) and Workspace (eInstruction), along with showing Jing and Google apps. I hope to have time to share a little about Hyperstudio5 as well!
Here is a link to the conference details:
Arizona Career and Technical Education Conference 2010
Hopefully I will see some of you there!
My Calendar is growing!
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!
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!
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 🙂
