Comments on: Baseball is a funny game…so is thinking about Math class

By: Higgy

Higgy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:10:00 +0000

Renjie,

I have decided to use SmartBoard Notebook Software. My school district is looking to purchase the full license. As for screencasting, I have never really done it for classroom use, but I have used it for college courses I have completed. I used CamStudio to do the recording and thought it was very easy to use.

As for Moodle…

Once you figure out the rigid structure, you will realize that you have a great platform for posting assignments, grades, calendars, etc… I really think you are making it difficult on yourself using Blogger; however, I have not attempted to post grades on a blogging platform. My hosting package allows me to easily install moodle without any trouble and I’m going to use it this year for AP Computer especially. I have seen the gradebook in action. It is very powerful.

By: Renjie Abraham

Renjie Abraham — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:51:36 +0000

Hey. I’m interested in what you’re doing w/ Moodle. I’d never heard of it before hitting the blogs like mad this summer. I’m trying to post assignments, grades, and calendars all through Blogger. As for tablet presenting, I use Agilix GoBinder. It’s a little slow at times and the support is questionable. I don’t know what their plans are for this product. All I know is that I still like it more than OneNote. OneNote employs boxes of ink (i.e. writing is grouped into paragraphs; hard to explain). GoBinder is much more free-form. I like like these versus slide-based apps because they provide an infinitely vertically scrolling workspace (ideal for Math). It doesn’t have a presentation mode so what you see is what your students see. GoBinder also publishes to *.png while OneNote publishes to *.mht (embedded *.png within; very annoying). I’ll check out UP as mentioned by Neil.

Let me know what you use for screencasting and where you publish. I’m also looking into that. Perhaps CamStudio and TeacherTube.

By: Neil Rhodes

Neil Rhodes — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:27:30 +0000

Can I recommend you look at Ubiquitous Presenter (up.ucsd.edu). It provides:
Ability to annotate slides live with multi-colored ink
On the fly, create whiteboard slides (blank slides)
Shrink the slide (to provide more space on which to write)
Saves slides & ink to the web for later review by students
Add instructor notes to the slides (displayed only on instructor’s monitor, but not on projected monitor)
Student submissions (students can submit text, and/or ink from laptop, or short text from cellphone

By: Computer Software » Computer Software July 1, 2007 2:15 pm

Computer Software » Computer Software July 1, 2007 2:15 pm — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:20:41 +0000

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