Math Duel App

In this blog post I have created an instructional video for the iPad app Math Duel. To create this video I used the app explain everything, which is an app that uses a series of slides to create a seamless video. In my video I explain how to use Math duel in the two player mode for a classroom. This video is intended to be used when I am sick and a substitute teacher has to take over last minute. In this video I am using math duel as a tool to boost my student’s mental math abilities. In math duel you a competing against another player to see who can compute basic math questions faster. Students practice with this app will be assessed using a tournament to see who the mental math champion is. The age group for this lesson is 9-12th grade. Math Duel is great little app for both idle fun and classroom use.

Glog: Posters of the Future

A Glog is a digital poster, which is an interactive online resource that is comprised of links, images, and videos. The Glog in the link below was made using Glogster. Glogster provides many easy to use interfaces and poster setups. Once you've chosen your setup you, choose a theme for your wall, and if you would like, your text boxes and graphics. Glogster provides many themes and in each of those, multiple choices of graphics and text boxes. The Glogster found in the link is comprised of mostly Glogster graphics with a few google images. Glogs have numerous uses in the classroom. Teachers can use Glogs to introduce new topics or provide an interactive outline for a class. Homework or final projects can be turned in using a Glog. Glogs open up a new realm of possibilities when it comes to the classroom.

The Glog in the link below is for a high school calculus class. Explore the story and battles of our hero derivative and the villain integral using this interactive interface. The calculus Glog was created using the vertical set up and the school theme. The videos were obtained from YouTube and the images from google. You'll notice that in the lower left corner there is what is called a word cloud. A word cloud is randomly generated from a paragraph of text, where the bigger the word the more often it appears. The word cloud was created using ABCya. This Glog would be used in a high school calculus classroom to introduce derivatives and integrals.

Click here to view my Glog

Trigonometry Video Playlist

A video playlist is a collection of videos of like or pertinent subjects. Video playlists are most commonly made using a video source such as YouTube. The playlist below was made using the YouTube playlist option. This tool is very useful and easy to use. To create a playlist log onto your YouTube account, click on playlist and the rest is self-explanatory. For uploading videos you can use YouTube search, URL, or take a video from your own channel. I personally prefer the URL method as you can have a separate tab for searching videos you want and then just paste them into the playlist. YouTube Playlists have great potential when used in a classroom. Teachers can assign homework that is engaging and in the students environment. Video Playlists also allow teachers to group together videos that they find educational to a certain topic and provide one link to limitless video knowledge.

The playlist below is a quick and fun way to get introduced to the basics of trigonometry. This playlists utilizes music videos for engaging memorization and an instructional video. This playlist and ones like it would be helpful for teachers to use to help introduce students to a variety of subjects before they get to class. While watching this playlist I would like students to pay close attention to SOH CAH TOA in the second video as you will be asked to use this trigonometry principle for your homework. Due Monday I would like you as students to go out and find some tall object around your house and measure it using the instructions in the last video. Extra homework points go to anyone that doesn't use 45 degrees as your set angle. See you Monday! Enjoy the playlist!