29 Apr

Helpful Links (circa 2005)

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
This list of links was complied somewhere around 2005.  Ugh.  That seems like a long time ago.  I'm a lot better than this now. Statistics Links Oakland University Mathematics DepartmentA Guide to Statistical SoftwareFree Statistical SoftwareThe R Project for Statistical ComputingResources for Graduate Students Mathematics LinksFigure This! Math Challenges for FamiliesNational Council of Teachers of MathematicsBirthdays of Famous MathematiciansMath DictionaryDERIVEHot Math Homework HelpQuick MathMathematics Help CentralS.O.S. – CalculusThe Math Forum Education LinksTeacher Files – Clip ArtInformation on Block SchedulingMeasurement ConverterMetric Conversion TableRubriStarDiscovery SchoolBreakthrough CollaborativeTeach with MoviesTop 10 Inspirational Movies for TeachersUnited Teachers of Flint Other Cool Math Related LinksMath2.orgMath.comAplusmath.comGomath.comGPA CalculatorOperations Research Excel Add-Ins…
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24 Feb

Thousands of FREE Learning Resources

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
I have heard about these websites from various places throughout the past week.  I hijacked a few of the descriptions, but I would rather give a hijacked description rather than an inaccurate description.1.  CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. No registration or plugins required.  However, I can see this being a big problem for students with a low-maturity level who would love to draw right over what the instructor is drawing.  So, be careful!  2.  Thinkfinity is a free digital learning platform from the Verizon Foundation…
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24 Feb

Tech Resources for Teachers: Backchanneling and more!

By Jon OaksUncategorized,
Over the past few months I have been trying to totally emerge myself into the world of Instructional Technology.  I have seen so many resources and as we all know, they eventually become repetitive.  I hate reading a list of "The Top Best New 100 Resources for Teachers" and half of them I already know about, and the other half end up being useless because they are either ill-designed or expensive. Well, with Richard Byrne's Favorite Tech Resources for Teachers comes a breath of fresh air.  There were so many new resources on this website that I hadn't heard of…
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03 Feb

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 great lesson plans as well. 2.  Z-Type is a very intense typing game.  It turns out that as a Math Instructor, I do have to teach typing, computer, and writing skills as well.  For example:  One student told me just today that he couldn't write…
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17 Jan

10 Potentially Helpful Resources

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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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16 Jan

Personalized Learning Environment

By Jon OaksUncategorized, , ,
I always get frustrated when I see articles like the Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education becauseI don't have to look at them all.I'm probably already using most of them already. Some of them actually stink really bad.Some of them require a fee.Well, you're in luck!  Since I'm taking a class in Designing an On-line class this semester, I'm supposed to be spending time seeking out websites for my project, so I painstakingly spent a little while skimming over all of them and seeing what they are all about.  I was getting bored, angry, and frustrated, until #18. The…
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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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