1. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Technology in Mathematics Education AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
2. Automation ICT is about making my life easier! 2 Monday, 10 October 2011
3. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Communicating with parents and students AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
4. Tracking Homework 4 Monday, 10 October 2011 The idea is to use recycling paper to print calendars on. http://www.re-print.me/ Print one for each class and put it up on the wall. The teacher (or a student) can write the homework each day.
5. The move to online homework tracking 5 Monday, 10 October 2011 Use TwInbox to post to twitter Get RSS Feed from Twitter Use twitterfeed.com to post to facebook page http://www.twitter.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ Communicate homework and vital information to students and parents http://tinyurl.com/mrharnwell2011 and http://www.twitter.com/mrharnwell
6. OneNote > My Lessons > Demo Over to OneNote… 6 Monday, 10 October 2011
7. OneNote > My Lessons > Demo Over to OneNote… Sync with Sharepoint OR Web via Skydrive Students (and parents) can access directly! 7 Monday, 10 October 2011
8. Parents want to help their son with homework? 8 Monday, 10 October 2011 DEC (Dept of Ed and Communities) has developed a site to help parents know what students are doing in schools http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/ There are some quick factsheets which student may find helpful when revising. Example.
9. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Flipping the Classroom AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
13. Flipping the classroom: Feedback Did you like the freedom in how you could learn in this topic? 11 Monday, 10 October 2011
14. Flipping the classroom: Feedback How good do you think your understanding was of this topic, compared to the way you usually learn? 12 Monday, 10 October 2011
15. Flipping the classroom: Feedback Feedback from a parent… “I want you in front of the class, teaching!” 13 Monday, 10 October 2011
16. Flipping the classroom: Feedback Comments from students: I hated this topic doing it on the computer and thought it was a terrible way to learn i really disliked learning by myself, id rather be tought by the teacher and be given and forced to do homework. i felt i didn't know anything for this topic 14 Monday, 10 October 2011
17. Flipping the classroom: Feedback Comments from students: When he made us choose our homework, i feel i didn't do enough. I liked how could work at our own pace but I need to work faster if I want to achieve better results. I liked how we could chose to do what subjects we did and did not understand. I really liked that we could choose what to do and then move on if we know the rest. 15 Monday, 10 October 2011
18. Screencasting 16 Monday, 10 October 2011 Screencasting is recording a video of your computer screen, while you are working on it. It can also record sound. http://www.screenr.com/ (online) http://www.camstudio.org/ (software) http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ (free/paid) Flipping the classroom
19. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Blogging with Year 8 AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
20. Data: Graphs and Tables Task: Decide on a topic that you are interested. Write a blog post on Scholarisexplaining why you are interested in this topic and what you can investigate statistically. In future posts, you will need to create and upload graphs to your blog. Find a source of data that you can use to investigate your topic. You may like to consider the following: Cars iPhone / iPad Harry Potter – IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926084/business NRL http://stats.rleague.com/rl/rl_index.html Cricket http://cricket.com.au/stats-scores Climate Change http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/ Music http://www.ariacharts.com.au/ Radio http://au.nielsen.com/products/nmr_radio_radioratings_archives.shtml 18 Monday, 10 October 2011
21. Making it Web2.0 Students were directed as to whose blog they had to comment on… Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 19 Monday, 10 October 2011
22. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Teaching and Learning Applets AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
23. Applets This is where I started, putting technology into my lessons Teacher Applets Students Applets Lets students visualise Mathematics 21 Monday, 10 October 2011
25. Bookmarking 23 Monday, 10 October 2011 Online Social Bookmarking lets you easily store bookmarks in one place (backed up), search them and share them with others. http://www.delicious.com/ http://www.diigo.com/ https://bookmarks.google.com/ Store your links, so that you can find them again Share links with colleagues – each department to have a diigo group?
26. Joshua Harnwell Assistant Head of Mathematics HarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au Other ideas for teaching Mathematics AIS Conference: Term 4 @ Knox Grammar School
30. Google Earth: 2D Measurement 28 Monday, 10 October 2011 To easily find the perimeter and area, you can use a Google Earth Add-on called GEPath. This can be used to check calculations. Find the perimeter and area of your school. How big is your school oval? Most likely, it will be close to 1 Ha.
33. Google Docs 31 Monday, 10 October 2011 Use google docs to collaborate for documents or spreadsheets http://www.offisync.com/ http://tinyurl.com/googlecloudconnect I check homework, using my iPhone and then use OffiSync to open the Google Spreadsheet in Excel
34. Microsoft Word and Maths Equations Suck! Microsoft Math Symbols ALT-0176 32 Monday, 10 October 2011
35. Comics 33 Monday, 10 October 2011 Create a cartoon / comic strip. Drag and drop the speech bubbles, people and scenes. http://www.bitstrips.com/ Create a cartoon yourself for a topic, or get students to present their work in cartoon form.
36. Copy part of a picture 34 Monday, 10 October 2011 Copy parts of images or parts of your screen. Microsoft Office > Insert Screen Shot > Screen Clipping Snipping Tool Modify difficult diagrams And make the background transparent
37. Convert PDF Files to Word Documents 35 Monday, 10 October 2011 Convert PDF documents, with diagrams, into word documents to edit. http://www.pdftoword.com/ Example
38. Wolfram Alpha 36 Monday, 10 October 2011 How many hairs are on a human head? Solve 2x+10=15 http://wolframalpha.com/ Students can investigate a topic, taking difficult mathematics out of the equation – and explaining how to do it!
39. Skype One of my students in Year 11 Extension 1 Mathematics was scheduled to have an operation on his knee and came up with a brilliant plan to not fall behind. The course goes very quickly and missing any lesson can be difficult – we were going to cover Superannuation using a GP. He organised with a friend to skype in from home to watch the lesson as we progressed. For part of the lesson, he was sitting on a table in front of the projector screen (well… the laptop he was skyped into). For the rest of the lesson, he sat in his usual seat. I wonder if UStream would have been an easier alternative – although it would not have allowed him to put up his hand and ask any questions. 37 Monday, 10 October 2011
