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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 the link on YouTube

Here is one of the videos I made using it for my Intermediate Algebra students, showing how to derive the Vertex Formula.


Here is the link on YouTube

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.

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.

 

One of my most useful tech toys (tools) so far

livescribe community

I am one of livescribe's featured contributors

I have been using a Livescribe pen for about a year now to create online lessons for my algebra courses.  I teach Beginning and Intermediate Algebra at a community college, as hybrid classes.   In my case, hybrid means 4 days face-to-face (but all homework and quizzes are online) and 1 day a week I am trying to teach them to be online learners.   I create an online module for each Tuesday that the students must go through and then take an online quiz over.    I try to create a similar lesson to what I would have been doing in class.

I have found the Livescribe pen very easy to use, and it is simple to upload my pencasts to their community page.  From their online community, I can either post or email a link to the example I created, or embed it directly into a webpage.

Take a look through some of my pencasts (SGlascoe).

I find it difficult to look through all of the pencasts on the community page, since you cannot tell what the lesson (or artwork or notes) is referring to, since they are “out of context”.  Livescribe, however, does not let you download and keep the .swf file, so the only place to be able to store and then post from, at this point,  is their online community.  They have told me they are working on letting us download the files to our computer.

In my next post I will share my website with you and show you where I embed my pencasts for my students to watch.

 

My first attempt at using the Mobi

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDMUBq4op4]

 

My newest tech teaching toy!

Great technology for teaching math!

 

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