THE journal had an article about Khan Academy and how great it is. Well, at least one commenter already duly noted that it has outdated pedagogy and is replacing sage on the stage with sage in a box… to which “Heather” in California replied that taht was just WRONG and that she loves Khan Academy.… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
Okay, I got my badge. I decided to try to watch the video about multiplication. I watched him write out the word slowly and pronounce it. I listened to him telling me about how he is usually not into memorizing but that it was a good thing to do with your multiplication tables. Then he… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
… It will probably suffice for fixing typos (tho’ I’m not sure any more) but… I copy an address and paste that into the “link” (not a relative link), and it just doesn’t work. That exact same pasted address *does* work, actually, pasted into an address bar. Started my animation class today — probably didn’t… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
Call me an idiot, but I can’t figure out how to change what this page has on it — as in, links? I have ever so carefully read all the little THINGS on the dashboard, but none of them will let me put a link to my site on this page. Reckon I’ll just put… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
Welp, I’m glad I’ve been posting positive things about other people’s math videos. Honestly, I’m not one of those persons who think I know more than anybody else out there. However, my stomach did some flippy floppies listening to this rah-rah video on youtube: http://vihart.com/blog/announcement-khan-academy/. They’re joining forces gleefully for the wonderful cause of fighting… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/10/are-online-math-programs-better-than-literacy/ The opener to this article: I’ve heard a recurring complaint from different school administrators: The quality of literacy software is not as high as that of math. What ?!? Oh, yea, math has some concepts but it’s easy to break them out. Then it says that the software is easier to make because you… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
… I failed to blog about the alternative to Camtasia that I was invited to try, for free, me being a teacher type with an .edu address and all. I failed to get around to looking at it for a week or two… and now I cannot find it. GRRRR…. Well, lost software, you get… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
That’s when you know a chunk of software was done by Not Too Many People. I guess I am just supposed to INFER COSMICALLY how to add audio on top of my camtasia, which I recorded without the mic working, but didn’t discover ’til after it was produced. Well, I should be able to edit,… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
So! I keep forgetting how dysfuncktional the file management is with Camtasia. I made the project and “produced” it… but OOPS!!!! I forgot to … well, I can’t quite remember what it was I was supposed to do to keep it from being saved…. where? NO, we’re sorry, you can’t find it — there’s no… [Read more…]
July 1, 2011
So, there’s been more commentary about the khan academy… I was compelled to add my own, to wit: I just started looking at the video for figuring out averages, since I have a student looking for resources to review that. It starts out with a black screen and a guy doin’ the lecture thing… I’m… [Read more…]
April 6, 2012
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