classrooms and education

Classrooms and Education: Video Projectors and Dynamic Presentation

Linda Fahlberg-StojanovskaUniv. St. Clement of Ohrid

Bitola, Macedonia

Classrooms and Education: Video Projectors and Dynamic Presentation

3-page handout is available

Static Content Presentation

What is the worst way to integrate technology in the classroom?

• Create a presentation with static content• Turn on your video projector• Dim the lights and …– Your kiddies will go straight into a coma–Particularly in mathematics

Video Projectors and Dynamic Content

In this webinar we will look at two technologies I use every day in my mathematics classroom.

However, these technologies work regardless – Of the curriculum (program, subject) and – Of the test (assessment method).

1. Writing in real-time and in color2. Publishing the classes on the web

Video Projectors and Dynamic Content

1. Writing in real-time and in color

Graphics Tablet 8" x 6" 20 cm x 15 cm

writing surface

~60 EuroTablet is wired (USB).

The pen is wireless (AAA battery).

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• How do I work in class?I write as if I am at a blackboard using annotation

software for writing.I open materials and use screen capture software to

copy and paste problems for solving.I open subject-related freeware (such as GeoGebra)

and do on-the-fly constructions to illustrate the process, algebraically and visually solve or even just to check solutions.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentPublishing my classes on the web

• When I am done with class …I simply –print the annotation file to a pdf file.–link to it via a ready-to-use link

page.–upload both to my website.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Annotation software– Microsoft Research InkSeine - freewarehttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/inkseine/install.html

– Microsoft Office OneNote

– Smart Notebook Software (with SmartTech products, e.g. SmartBoard)

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Screen capture software– JING: freeware (does screencasts too)http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

– SnagIthttp://www.techsmith.com/

(comes bundled with Camtasia Studio in an Academic License for <$200)

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• FOSS Software– GEOGEBRA: freeware http://www.geogebra.org

– Scratch: freewarehttp://scratch.mit.edu

(we have translated both into Macedonian)

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Enough static content!Let's see some examples.

• I am sitting in front of the class with– Laptop– Graphics tablet– Video projector

I am turned so that I can look right to see the projection and left so I can see the class.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Enough static content!Let's see some examples.

• I am sitting in front of the class with– Laptop– Graphics tablet– Video projector

I am turned so that I can look right to see the projection and left so I can see the class.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Do example using Smart Notebook

– Annotate, Copy & Paste, Annotate,

– Calculate with Calculator, Check with GeoGebra

• Save, Print and Post

• If time, do example using OneNote

• If time, do example using InkSeine

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than chalkboard

• I can face my kids and write and talk so there is direct interaction.

• If something is too small – I can move it, make it bigger; the view-range is greater.

• Nothing is erased; I can refer back to any page.

• I can color code so relationships are clear.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than chalkboard

• I can prepare images, problems ahead of time and still talk and work in real-time.

• Dynamic technology is available at my fingertips – every kind of software from an online calculator up to dynamic mathematics

• I can publish my lessons in an easily accessible format. My kids can check their notes.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than static content• It is frontal instruction (proven to be most effective)

plus you have technology.• It is dynamic – students can ask questions; you can

solve problems to illustrate something that comes up in class at that moment.

• I can give problems to the kiddies to work in class and then put the answers in later so they can check their work again at home.

Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than static content• It is cheap to integrate.• There is no extra setup time.

Most important:• If you write – the kiddies write.

If you do show & tell – the kiddies watch.

Writing improves understanding.