rules; rules; rules;

edmodo

Just set up my ap-classes with edmodo. It's sort of a self-contained facebook/virtual classroom that I had seen at one of the masscue conferences a while back. Looks like it might be a better way to extend the classroom outside the classroom than manhattan. We'll see.

Posts to the class can be set up to forward to you as email or as text messages to your phone, so the real-time interaction possibilities are better - if you want that sort of thing. It also has a poll feature that may make clickers obsolete - at least as soon as all the kids get either smart phones or laptops.

Eric

simple; windows+p

When attached to a projector the key strokes windows+p allows you to select between; extending the monitor to the projected screen, duplicating the monitor to the projector, or nothing to the projector. This is useful to get a lesson started. Leave the problems, notes, or class starter on the projector and then take attendance on your screen without losing class time.

Taking/Publishing Notes Online for Students

In this video I use a tablet PC to take and display notes to my students, which I later publish for them to view, compare to their notes, help with homework, and to study for tests. You could also use any pad/tablet interface that connects to your computer to complete a similar lesson.




1. Open Windows Journal
2. Take/Give notes/class discussion as you normally would.
3. Save Windows Journal File.
4. Select File | Print from within the Windows Journal file
4a. Select PDF Complete Printer on the HP Elite.
5. Save the PDF to a place that makes sense to you in your file system.
6. Publish the notes to your CMS and/or Google Docs/Sites.

Have fun!

life;

... now this is professional development the way I like it; made this video of a linear life scenario with screentoaster. ah, good times, good times.

HP Elite Books

So, we got these HP Elite Book Tablets; they are pretty sweet.

Here is a doodle i did with gimp.

This one I made with TuxPaint along with my daughter. There is a tux line of software from games, counting, math etc. check them out.

This is a piecewise function made with Graph Calc another free program. Seems to have some potential.

• HP Web Cam ~ You can also take pictures and video with the web cam using the HP Web Cam application; found in Start\All Programs\HP\HP Web Cam.


• OpenOffice ~ an alternative to Microsoft Office. I prefer its mathematics typesetting options to the word equation editor, and mathtype.


• Chrome ~ web browser. I like the chrome interface, easy to search, new tabs have a lib of recently/commonly visited pages. I used it all day in school Friday, no problems with powerschool or gradebook.


• MiKTeX ~ a mathematical typesetting engine, based on TeX (by Donald Knuth), it provides a front end for working the system and creating pdf documents with beautiful mathematics. Works on both mac and win.

• Audacity ~ audio recording/mixing tool that does lots. In specific you can make podcasts :).

Dan Meyer: Math Class Needs a Makeover

I found Dan's talk compelling. I always wonder why the students can sometimes remember processes and sometimes not, but all the students that fit into the not category; do not have a sense of where they are going and trying to get to with a problem. Dan gets it right, he tells how the students do not own there mathematical knowledge, and they do not embrace problem solving.