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.

MassCUE Conference ideas

After going to the MassCUE conference, I came away with a bunch of things to think about relating to computers and education. Specifically there are lots of different ways for students to collaborate and lots of tools that can facilitate that process.

First go here: http://prezi.com/obqzirjhtf-q/ and play the presentation. It's very cool (skip past the video if you wish).

Second, some sites that looked interesting that people may want to check out are posted below:

http://www.gapminder.org/ - 4-Dimentional graphs (2-D graphs with the addition of color, and time)
http://prezi.com/ - non-linear online presentations, a very cool replacement for powerpoint, but it may cost.
http://www.edmodo.com/ - a sort of self-contained, password protected version of facebook for your classroom
http://www.polleverywhere.com/ - a cell phone replacement for the automatic class polling systems
http://www.wikispaces.com/ - your own classbased wiki

Eric

Lecture Notes / Study Guide

Here is a relatively simple process to give your students the ability to review there notes with the benefit of the lecture, or overview of the lecture.

In this example I just broke my lecture down to one example, and gave the students a brief overview of the process at hand.

1. Digital Camera
2. Digital Voice Recorder
Full disclosure I did have to convert the audio file to mp3.
[ command line: ffmpeg -i input.wma -ab 32 output.mp3 ]

3. Upload materials to wiki:
Inequality Lesson Overview