Summercore2008

I had the opportunity to set up my Delicious account and looked at 10 or so sites which I tagged on Delicious.
I’m wondering how to link with others and be able to peruse their sites.

Little Big League Math lesson

This spring, knowing nothing about blogs, WIKI’s , RSS streams, etc., I did use youtube to introduce an algebra lesson on work problems. I remembered seeing this in a movie, looked for my VHS copy of that movie, was trying to figure out how to download and save a clip, when my 23 year old daughter said to look on youtube. Sure enough, I found it, showed it to my class and the clip was a great intro to the lesson for my class.

Here it is:

Very new and exciting to be exposed to Web 2.0 and its interactive capabilities. I’m reminded how frustrated I get when things don’t happen right away (had to wait 5 or 6 minutes to get my password and activation for edublogs).

I’m thinking that blogs would be a great way for students to share favorite math problems, brainteasers, links to neat sites, etc. as well as sharing a variety of solutions.

I’m impressed with the possibilities for YouTube, which I’ve used (once) in the classroom and VoiceThread.  The interactive capabilities of Web 2.0 are awesome for a newbie!