How to Make a TurningPoint Presentation (Video)

Using clickers in the classroom is a great way to get instant feedback, keep students engaged and help students succeed in a video game crazed society. Here is a basic overview of getting a TurningPoint presentation ready.

Google Apps For My Classes

A couple months ago I decided to start taking my math classes to the computer lab once a week.  The first day I asked everyone to start a gmail account.  It was going just fine until halfway through first hour when Google blocked our server from creating any more accounts.  They though we were spammers.  One of the [...]

Writing Tablet for Math

I’ve been using  a CyberPad writing tablet in my math classroom.  This has taken the place of my whiteboard, chalkboard (yes I still have a chalkboard), and overhead projector.  Here are some advantages and disadvantages:
 Advantages:
1. No more messy overheads. I don’t have the classic blue hand from wiping the overhead with my hand.
2. No more [...]

Running Out of Power

For a while now I’ve been trying to get some computers for my classroom.  After asking around I found out that the computers are attainable.  The problem is that the third floor is running out of power.  I work in a very old building and it is not ready to run all the equipment that is [...]

Why haven’t I been using Firefox?

Our school’s attendance program was written to only work with IE.  I’ve always wanted to use firefox but I just didn’t want to have two browsers open.  I hear a rumor that you could run IE as a tab in Firefox but I never had time to check it out.  With spring break here I [...]

ClassMarker.com geometry quiz

Classmarker.com is a great tool for online quizes.  They must read user input becuase everytime I think of a feature that would help they announce that the feature has just been added.  I am going to ask my department to pay for the upgraded membership. 
It isn’t perfect for math but I still use it.  There [...]