Monthly Archives: May 2011
How I make screencasts: Lecture capture, part 2
Now that school’s out, I’m going to pick up where I left off (two months ago!) in my series on how I make screencasts. So far I’ve made three posts in this series. In the first post we talked about … Continue reading
Filed under Camtasia, Educational technology, Inverted classroom, Teaching, Technology
Any questions about this video?
As part of preparing for our impending move from Indy to Grand Rapids, my family and I have made a couple of visits to the area. These by necessity combine business with pleasure, since our three kids (ages 2, 5, … Continue reading
Filed under Geometry, Math, Problem Solving
Thoughts on the culture of an inverted classroom
I’ve just finished up the spring semester, and with it the second iteration of the inverted classroom MATLAB course. With my upcoming move, it may be a while before I teach another course like this (although my experiments with targeted … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Educational technology, Inverted classroom, Teaching
Three things I wish Google Documents would let me do
Let me preface this article by saying that I really like Google Documents. It’s a fantastic set of tools that extends basic office functionality to the web in really compelling ways. I’ve been incorporating Google Docs pretty centrally in my … Continue reading
Filed under LaTeX, Social software, Teaching, Technology, Web 2.0
The “golden moment”
We’re in final exams week right now, and last night students in the MATLAB course took their exam. It included some essay questions asking for their favorite elements of the course and things that might be improved in the course. … Continue reading
Filed under Critical thinking, Education, Inverted classroom, MATLAB, Teaching, Technology
Understanding “understanding”
This past Saturday, I was grading a batch of tests that weren’t looking so great at the time, and I tweeted: I do ask these two questions a lot in my classes, and despite what I tweeted, I will probably … Continue reading
Targeting the inverted classroom approach
A while back I wondered out loud whether it was possible to implement the inverted or “flipped” classroom in a targeted way. Can you invert the classroom for some portions of a course and keep it “normal” for others? Or … Continue reading
Filed under Clickers, Inverted classroom, Linear algebra, MATLAB, Screencasts
