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SAT Math Practice – Interactive Pencasts from Rose-Hulman’s Homework Hotline
Posted by Tim Fahlberg in Math, Mathematics, SAT Math Practice on December 29, 2009
Once again Indiana and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and service – This time by providing free online SAT practice/tutoring vis-à-vis dozens of pdfs and interactive pencasts available at www.askrose.org/SATpractice.shtml.
Each pencast and pdf was created using a Livscribe Smartpen by a student or students with lots of tutoring experience and vetted by an amazing team led by Susan Smith, Director and Janie McNichols, Assistant Director, of the Homework Hotline provided by AskRose.org. This award winning non-profit is funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc. and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Free math/science tutoring for K-12 students in Indiana!
If you’re lucky enough to live in Indiana and have children in grades 6-12 that need math/science tutoring then be sure to visit www.askrose.org and take advantage of the free homework hotline that Rose-Hulman offers. In 2008 over 44,000 students took advantage of this and I’m sure the number will be much higher in 2009 which is drawing to a close as I write this.
If you’d like to learn how all this got started read more under the image below.
In early 2009 Janie McNichols stopped at CIM Technology Solutions’ booth at an educational technology conference in Indiana where she met JR Gayman (VP of CIM, someone who really understands cutting edge technology). JR asked her what she did and was interested in and Janie replied that she co-directed AskRose, Rose-Hulman’s Homework Hotline, and was looking for tools that might help with it (math in particular). JR shared with her about how the Livescribe Smartpen could be used to take notes with voice & to create and share pencasts/mathcasts online and encouraged her to contact me (I worked for JR and CIM at the time) because of my long work with mathcasts and knowledge of the Smartpen. So Janie and I met online – only once or perhaps twice and she caught onto everything I shared about it a hurry (pencasting/mathcasting with the Smartpen and/or using Jing/Camtasia Studio with graphics tablets to create/share mathcasts).
Pencasting with the Smartpen (by Steven Diaz)
Posted by Tim Fahlberg in Create and share a pencast, Math, Pencasting with the Smartpen on December 24, 2009
Steven Diaz, a math instructor for the Academic Enhancement Center at St. Thomas University, has created a very nice SlideShare presentation. I’ve embedded it below along with an example pencast by Steven. Learn more about Steven on his Ed. D Journey blog.
Livescribe-Enabled Talking Test and Solutions
Posted by Tim Fahlberg in Create a Talking Test with Talking Solutions, How to, Math, Special Education, Talking Math Test and Solutions, Talking Test and Solutions, Talking Test and Solutions on September 23, 2009
Demonstrates the ability of the Livescribe technology to
Part 1: Share a test which reads questions aloud to students (more slowly and privately if desired)
Part 2: Create solutions which explain with voice and writing through a pencast available on the web.
Part 1: The Talking Test
- YouTube version of video (new window): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP8-ibqa5k0
- Screencast.com version (new window) – http://www.screencast.com/t/NjdkNWVjZDM Download Screencast.com version (8 MB): Livescribe-Enabled Talking Test
Part 2: Solutions to the talking test (Pencast)
Image below links to blog post with actual pencasts:
Many thanks to The Math Maker for creating the original talking test screencast and to Jim Dornberg (Mathcasts – handouts and links page on his wiki) and James Socol who collaborated to create the Pencast Embed tool which allows creation of pencast embed code of 3 sizes (I used the Large size above here). See http://jamessocol.com/pencast/ Small pencasts can also be easily embedded using the embed code now available when viewing pencasts on the Livescribe Community.
Livescribe Pencasts/Mathcasts by 6th Graders – Julie McLeod’s Math Masters!
Posted by Tim Fahlberg in Grade 6-8 Students, Math, Pencasts by 6th Graders, Pencasts/Mathcasts by 6th Graders on September 21, 2009
More examples of Julie’s students’ work are here: Pencasts by 6th Graders and on her Mathcast Central: Mathcasts by the Math Masters blog.
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