17 Jan

10 Potentially Helpful Resources

By Jon OaksUncategorized, , , , , , , , ,
Here is the most recent set of helpful resources that I have sort of stumbled upon out of well over 200 hundred that I've looked at today: 1.  Broad Texter - This is a service that allows you to create a group so that your students can join so that they can receive text messages from you.  In fact, I've set up one for my students that I hope to use in the near future.  Feel free to sign up at the top of the page if you're so inclined. 2.  Smart Teaching Blog - My biggest advice when looking at…
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10 Jan

Get Creative!

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
Sometimes a search for the weirdest things will bring you some of the the most useful things, like this, a link from Panola College of dozens of Free Web-based tools that can be used to spice up an on-line class.  So, do you really want to know what I was searching for?  It was a Google Image search of "Online Learning and Teaching in Comic," where the following, quite interesting image popped up:
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15 Dec

Math Comic Strips

By Jon OaksUncategorized
One point this semester I wanted to have students create comic strips about math.  I tried creating one of my own one morning at 4 AM, but was unsuccessful.  My first attempt at a good one came just a few minutes ago, and I thought that I would post it here for inspiration of what can be done with http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/.  I think what would be even better is to make a whole bunch of these comics and then shove them into http://animoto.com/ or http://prezi.com/.  What do you think?
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15 Dec

Math Manga

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
I was talking with some of my students this afternoon who asked me about my interest in Anime and Manga.  Of course, I immediately was intrigued by the possibility of combining Math and Manga and did a Google search (I'm really trying to avoid using Google as a verb these days) for "Math Manga".  Well, apparently Lerner Publishing Group has a series on Manga Math Mysteries.  And then there are the Math Games from Manga High, which include the ever so popular "Ice Ice Maybe," a wonderful game for teaching students estimation.  It actually has taught me a few things…
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