Jon Oaks

Tag: Inspiration

  • Calculus Parody Videos

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  • An Array of Media — Video and Audio Clips

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    1.  JotForm Introductory Video 2.  Article: College Lecture Classes Need Overall /mp3player/mp3_shell.png /jwplayer/posterous/pstplayer.swf if (FlashDetect.installed) { $(‘flash_embed-ywmyppzGum’).show(); $(‘quicktime_embed-ywmyppzGum’).hide(); } else { $(‘quicktime_embed-ywmyppzGum’).show(); $(‘flash_embed-ywmyppzGum’).hide(); } 3.  Calculus Rhapsody (I know this isn’t new, but… a friend who is teaching Calculus this summer asked for a link.) 4.  Math:  It’s Everywhere 5.  A Short List of Great…

  • Using Virtual Tools to Solve Real-World Problems

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    I recently saw this video come up in my Twitter Feed.  It is about a group of teenagers who are working on a project for Abbott Labs, and the story of their teacher who realizes that after working on this Real-World Problem, that the students will never be able to learn the same way ever…

  • More Student Feedback.

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    I'm really happy to report that this is ALL of the student feedback from my Saturday class that recently ended: "Although I did not understand a lot of the material, the instructor was very informative and acted as if he had he students in his best interest." "Jon is a great instructor.  He really takes…

  • Encouragement for Any Teachers Out There…

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    I know it can be tough out there!  I just finished two of the worst semesters I have ever had back-to-back.  The students constantly had attitude problems and my supervisors scolded me for telling the students that their attitude was unacceptable for the classroom.  Well, I just received the first good news I have gotten…

  • Twitter Link Round-Up

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    Here’s a recap of the links that I’ve posted on Twitter over the past week or so: 1.  A friend told me that she used this Divisibility Rocks game from over at The Utah Education Network with her Developmental Math students and that it worked really well.  It turns out that they have plenty of other…

  • Happy New Year!

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    I've really been trying to avoid it, but at this point I don't think I can help it anymore.  I think that the TED Talk that was featured over at The Edge of Learning sums it up well why I don't like to give away many of my New Year's Resolutions.  But I want to tell…

  • Mathematics Origami

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    This morning with a stack of blank, unused paper sitting right next to me, I was thinking about some new projects that I might be able to assign my students for next semester.  Then it popped into my mind… Origami!  I think an assignment on origami would be especially interesting to my students in art…

  • Thoughts on Teaching Statistics

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    There was a tweet in my feed this morning that simply said: "Now that's how you present statistics http://pop.is/24bos".  I'm glad that I took this tweet seriously, because the next 5 minutes or so of watching Hans Rosling talk about the "Joy of Stats" was a real treat.  I can only imagine what some of these…

  • Using TED in the Classroom

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    There were a couple of points this semester when I could hardly talk and needed to fill a few extra minutes of class time to give my voice a little rest.  I have heard about TED in the past, but hadn't really thought about how I could use it in the classroom.  Well, I tried…