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Classrooms and Education: Video Projectors and Dynamic Presentation Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska Univ. St. Clement of Ohrid Bitola, Macedonia

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http://bit.ly/n7KhJO What is the worst way to integrate technology in the classroom? Create a presentation with static content, turn on your video projector, dim the lights and …your kiddies will go straight into a coma. Instead use a tablet PC or graphics tablet - no extra work and really effective.

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Classrooms and Education: Video Projectors and Dynamic Presentation

Linda Fahlberg-StojanovskaUniv. St. Clement of Ohrid

Bitola, Macedonia

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Classrooms and Education: Video Projectors and Dynamic Presentation

3-page handout is available

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Static Content Presentation

What is the worst way to integrate technology in the classroom?

• Create a presentation with static content• Turn on your video projector• Dim the lights and …– Your kiddies will go straight into a coma–Particularly in mathematics

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Video Projectors and Dynamic Content

In this webinar we will look at two technologies I use every day in my mathematics classroom.

However, these technologies work regardless – Of the curriculum (program, subject) and – Of the test (assessment method).

1. Writing in real-time and in color2. Publishing the classes on the web

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Video Projectors and Dynamic Content

1. Writing in real-time and in color

Graphics Tablet 8" x 6" 20 cm x 15 cm

writing surface

~60 EuroTablet is wired (USB).

The pen is wireless (AAA battery).

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• How do I work in class?I write as if I am at a blackboard using annotation

software for writing.I open materials and use screen capture software to

copy and paste problems for solving.I open subject-related freeware (such as GeoGebra)

and do on-the-fly constructions to illustrate the process, algebraically and visually solve or even just to check solutions.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentPublishing my classes on the web

• When I am done with class …I simply –print the annotation file to a pdf file.–link to it via a ready-to-use link

page.–upload both to my website.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Annotation software– Microsoft Research InkSeine - freewarehttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/inkseine/install.html

– Microsoft Office OneNote

– Smart Notebook Software (with SmartTech products, e.g. SmartBoard)

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• Screen capture software– JING: freeware (does screencasts too)http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

– SnagIthttp://www.techsmith.com/

(comes bundled with Camtasia Studio in an Academic License for <$200)

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• FOSS Software– GEOGEBRA: freeware http://www.geogebra.org

– Scratch: freewarehttp://scratch.mit.edu

(we have translated both into Macedonian)

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Enough static content!Let's see some examples.

• I am sitting in front of the class with– Laptop– Graphics tablet– Video projector

I am turned so that I can look right to see the projection and left so I can see the class.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Enough static content!Let's see some examples.

• I am sitting in front of the class with– Laptop– Graphics tablet– Video projector

I am turned so that I can look right to see the projection and left so I can see the class.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

• Do example using Smart Notebook

– Annotate, Copy & Paste, Annotate,

– Calculate with Calculator, Check with GeoGebra

• Save, Print and Post

• If time, do example using OneNote

• If time, do example using InkSeine

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than chalkboard

• I can face my kids and write and talk so there is direct interaction.

• If something is too small – I can move it, make it bigger; the view-range is greater.

• Nothing is erased; I can refer back to any page.

• I can color code so relationships are clear.

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More effective than chalkboard

• I can prepare images, problems ahead of time and still talk and work in real-time.

• Dynamic technology is available at my fingertips – every kind of software from an online calculator up to dynamic mathematics

• I can publish my lessons in an easily accessible format. My kids can check their notes.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than static content• It is frontal instruction (proven to be most effective)

plus you have technology.• It is dynamic – students can ask questions; you can

solve problems to illustrate something that comes up in class at that moment.

• I can give problems to the kiddies to work in class and then put the answers in later so they can check their work again at home.

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Video Projectors and Dynamic ContentWriting in real-time and in color

More effective than static content• It is cheap to integrate.• There is no extra setup time.

Most important:• If you write – the kiddies write.

If you do show & tell – the kiddies watch.

Writing improves understanding.