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Monday, March 31, 2008
Blog Entry #8
In the reading, "Digital Images in the Math Classroom", the authors mention an activity entitled, Finding and Using Vanishing Points. This activity uses famous paintings and other digital images to explore the concept of the vanishing point. Along with the Geometer's Sketchpad, students can draw parallel lines on the digital images to find the vanishing points. I have posted three different types of pictures that a student could use. The first one (1.) is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh called Bedroom at Arles, the second one (2.) is a picture that I found online and the last one (3.) is one of my personal photos that I took when I was in Spain this past summer. All three examples can easily be used to show vanishing points.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Blog Entry #7
Two ways that podcasting can be used in the classroom:
1. While I was looking online, I found one really interesting pocast called Math Mutation. It is described as a “podcast for people of all ages where we discuss fun, interesting, or just plain weird corners of mathematics taht you would not have heard in school.” I think this podcast could benefit students by showing them a different side of math. Oftentimes, students have difficulty finding “the fun” in math and because of that, a lot of students are not interested, and therefore, not motivated to do well in Math class. This podcast would be great with introducing a new view of math for the disinterested and unmotivated students. (http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=1294&openpod=7#anchor7)
2. Secondly, podcasts can be used as a resource for teachers. For example, I encountered a podcast entitled “Teaching with SMARTboard” which is described to be “a video podcast about creating engaging 6-12 math lessons using the SMARTboard.” This is indirectly beneficial to students because this podcast assists the teachers in utilizing the SMARTboard to its full potential to create both interesting and effective lessons. I really enjoyed this podcast because it did have a huge emphasis on using technology to maximize learning and not just using the SMARTboard for the sake of using technology. (http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=2024&openpod=7#anchor7)
1. While I was looking online, I found one really interesting pocast called Math Mutation. It is described as a “podcast for people of all ages where we discuss fun, interesting, or just plain weird corners of mathematics taht you would not have heard in school.” I think this podcast could benefit students by showing them a different side of math. Oftentimes, students have difficulty finding “the fun” in math and because of that, a lot of students are not interested, and therefore, not motivated to do well in Math class. This podcast would be great with introducing a new view of math for the disinterested and unmotivated students. (http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=1294&openpod=7#anchor7)
2. Secondly, podcasts can be used as a resource for teachers. For example, I encountered a podcast entitled “Teaching with SMARTboard” which is described to be “a video podcast about creating engaging 6-12 math lessons using the SMARTboard.” This is indirectly beneficial to students because this podcast assists the teachers in utilizing the SMARTboard to its full potential to create both interesting and effective lessons. I really enjoyed this podcast because it did have a huge emphasis on using technology to maximize learning and not just using the SMARTboard for the sake of using technology. (http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=2024&openpod=7#anchor7)
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