Jon Oaks

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  • Example of Fontself to Create Your Own Font

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    Personalize your messages with original hand-drawn fonts. Send yours now!

  • Videos on Multiplying Fractions

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    A couple of students in my on-line classes have been asking questions about multiplying fractions.  Should you simplify before or after multiplying?  How should you simplify?  By cross-canceling directly, or by a prime factorization and cross-canceling combo?  Here are some videos I have made to help clarify the situation. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/595b65da-573a-4dfd-92c3-2416f129b1f5/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com » http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/6637f493-b715-43a6-8400-fa4e3be154c1/jingswfplayer.swf View…

  • Thousands of FREE Learning Resources

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    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.…

  • Miscellaneous Links

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    After a recent afternoon meeting about statistics, I needed to find a few old links that I had buried away.  Well, here are a few odds and ends I found while looking: 1.  Virtual Math Lab at Texas A&M – This is a very good resource for College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Beginning Algebra.  When I…

  • 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…

  • MathZone ScreenCast

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    If you're teaching using MathZone, you may want to share this short screencast about this little quirk about entering expressions involving exponents with your students: http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/8ae126f7-fdb4-443e-8fc5-11165684f596/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com »

  • Comment on a Few Useful Tools

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    This comment is more here for myself than for anyone else, as I keep on forgetting about them just because I don’t have them documented anywhere: 1.  bit.ly – You would not believe (or maybe you would) how much this URL shortener has come in handy lately to quickly and easily customize URLs to give…

  • Using Jing in the On-line Classroom

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    I just started facilitating my first on-line course ever this week.  I say facilitate, because I really don't believe that I'm actually teaching the students anything in the traditional sense.  In fact, they are actually learning through reading the textbook, discussion forums on ANGEL, and MathZone.  However, since this is my first experience with MathZone,…

  • 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…