Jon Oaks

Tag: Video

  • 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…

  • Personalized Learning Environment

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    I always get frustrated when I see articles like the Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education because I 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…

  • Jeopardy! ‘Body Count’ Category.

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    For some reason I happened to see Jeopardy on 1/11/11 and I found the category ‘Body Count’ really intriguing.  When you read the clues, I think you’ll find it intriguing as well: 400 – Chambers of the heart squared 800 – Usual number of ribs divided by 8 1200 – Pairs of chromosomes times 2…

  • 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 »

  • Sudoku at its Easiest.

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    I have never liked Sudoku.  I think it's very difficult.  So, I'm glad Google has come up with this idea:

  • 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…

  • An Interactive Model for Mathematics???

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    How can we take the model of the #backchannel and apply it to teaching mathematics?  How can we make mathematics interactive for our students?  How can we engage our students to the point that they would want to gather to do mathematics on their own time?

  • Why Can’t We Do This for Mathematics???

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    This video was introduced to me via the Online Teaching and Learning class that I'm taking this semester.  Enjoy!

  • Supplemental Instruction

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    Last semester in the Contemporary Topics In Higher Education class that I took, my group wrote a paper on Supplemental Instruction (SI).  The future of SI is definitely toward using Video SI in the private sector.  But for now, one of the biggest struggles with SI is how we can make it seem interesting enough…

  • Mathematics in the News

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    Sometimes as an instructor I struggle to get students to see the relevance of mathematics.  Although mathematics isn't in the news nearly as often as I think it should be, here are links to a few websites that do document real-time mathematics news, along with a website with some interesting videos that might help to…