Classroom Presenter
Cal ArmstrongOne of the applications I use a lot in my Calculus class is Classroom Presenter (CP3) from the University of Washington. While my teaching style is not typically lecture oriented,…
I am an impatient man
I admit it. I harass people who put on conferences, seminars and talks on mathematics, education and technology and then don't stream or video-archive them. Given the size of our…
Why I hate Sharepoint (reason #3)
I have given up on Sharepoint but school policy says I have to provide a link to my new resource. As it happens, there is no Webpart that allows me…
Google Docs and Box.Net
So far, so good. Fingers crossed. Wood knocked.I've massaged Google Docs into the Grade 8s and the Model UN club; at this rate I'll have about 20% of the school…
Finally
Okay.. it's taken me since September but this was the first math class of my Grade 9s where I was convinced that they 'got it'. Not in terms of the…
Why Smartboards?
I really have to question the continued emphasis on Smartboards... if you're a teacher (well, high school teacher at least) I'd strongly recommend you consider investing in a good tablet…
What a beautiful day…
One thing LiveJournal has is a nice space to automatically put the music you're listening to... here I have to do it manually... U2, Beautiful Day.Anyways... what makes it s0?1)…
Google Docs
So I've been playing a bit with Google docs in a few classes...1) Grade 8s. A communal document for review... I distributed review questions to each student and they wrote…
Putting MapleTA into Wikispaces
Having looked through the posts on Maple Primes, I found a suggestion to insert MapleTA assignments into webpages. So, I flipped over to Wikispaces and tried it out. A little…
Opening up things a bit
Having come back from Educon 2.1 I realize that I have to be (far) more collaborative. Not my nature being an introvert but, having tried to blog every year for…