Cassandra Eckstorm and Meredith Smith Teaching Math Online Cassandra Eckstorm and Meredith Smith
How do you teach math online? The same way you teach it in a brick and mortar classroom. Lots of energy Lots of practice
The benefit of our online math class: There are support systems built in. Teacher as Tutor Homeroom Teacher Personalized attention and academic plan for each student
What happens when a student gets behind? Tutor Call their parents Reach out to that student.
Resources for online teaching Content: Kahn Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/ SAS Curriculum Pathways http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/porta l/ PhET http://phet.colorado.edu/ Geogebra (download or online) http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/ Youtube http://www.youtube.com/
For students: Wabbit graphing calculator emulator http://wabbit.codeplex.com/ Graphcalc.com http://www.graphcalc.com/ Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
For creating and sharing content: Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ Slide Rocket Blueberry software Helps make videos Google Drive Glogster.com http://www.glogster.com/ Scriblink - shared whiteboard for teaching http://www.scriblink.com/ Texter http://texter.en.softonic.com/
Resources for online teaching The INTERNET!
A Student’s View
Teacher’s view and tools Assignments behind (students, parents, and teachers) Pacing (students, parents, and teachers) Attendance (students, parents, and teachers)
Lots of data at our fingertips to know which students need help, where they are in the course, and how many assignments behind they are, so that teachers can help them where they are.
So HOW do you teach math online? LMS Blackboard Moodle *BrainHoney
Live teaching/tutoring time Elluminate *Adobe Connect Phone and a shared whiteboard. http://www.scriblink.com/ Skype *Google Talk
Cassandra Eckstorm ceckstorm@psecademy.org 803-386-7735 Meredith Smith Contact Information Cassandra Eckstorm ceckstorm@psecademy.org 803-386-7735 Meredith Smith msmith@psecademy.org (803) 271-0587