helping students see math when they can't see you
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Math Online: How to Help Students ‘See’ Math When They Can’t See YouDr. Kathy Crooks, Western Governors University
Why are Students Taking An Online Course?
LocationTimeAvailabilityCost
Challenges
AsynchronicityLack of face-to-face interaction with and among instructor and students
IsolationHow to promote active learning?
Join.me
• Share screen • Annotate• Take pictures of screen • Record sessions• Connect via video• Connect with multiple
people
Useful for online student appointments.Student can share their screen with you!
Tablet
Webcam
Google: Docs, Forms, Calendars
• Allow for collaboration and sharing
• Easy way to collect data
• Useful for signups
• Access to live events and important dates
Repository of student responses; can share with other students.
you can book me
• Allows for anyone with link to book appointments
• Integrates with google calendar
• Shows availability to students
($$ - there is a cost for this)
Online Cohorts
• Asynchronous and synchronous
• Allows student to be part of a ‘group’
• Allows for more directed movement
through course
• Keeps student connected
Adobe Connect
($$ - there is a cost for this)
• Meetings & Webinars• Share Screen• Record meetings (can
remove identifying information in recordings)
• Multiple hosts• Voice chat or written chat• Can add web links
Extremely interactive; allows for student-student interaction, chats, polls and recording
MailChimp
• Schedule emails
• Include links• Provides data• Saves emails
Useful for cohort activities, reminders, and keeping students on track.
Youtube
Don’t redo what’s already been done!
Purplemath
….and other online sites…
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Make Information Available
