City by fdecomite
Hi everyone,
Construction on my final project – a fraction help page – is underway and I need your help. Since I know that everyone has sooo much time on their hands right now, I would greatly appreciate it you could try out a lesson or two and give me some feedback on the discussion page. Please let me know if you like the layout or content of the lesson, or any difficulties you encounter. As well, is there anything that you feel really needs to be improved? I would also appreciate it if you passed the link to the page (http://fraction-help.wikispaces.com/) to any math teachers you know for their or their students feedback.
I can’t do much about the ads, because I don’t teach in the K-12 system and can’t guarantee it won’t only be used by those in the K-12 system, Wikispaces won’t give me the free educational package. Frankly, I don’t agree with their reasoning since this is intended to be a free open source for any student having trouble, but I don’t write the rules…
I will be updating the site on an ongoing basis for the next month or so, and if people find it useful, I intend to keep it up and expand the content to include other areas I have noticed students having difficulty with.
Thanks in advance!
Greg
(Almost forgot… GO RIDERS! I have to type this as my voice is a little hoarse from cheering at the game last night… 
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November 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm |
Nice way to incorporate technology. I did notice that your gong is cutting out some of your voice in a show. What tools did you use to create your show? PowerPoint solely?
Bettina
November 10, 2009 at 6:37 pm |
Hi Bettina,
Yes – I just used powerpoint and recorded the narration separately for each slide. I’m having trouble with using the rehearsed timings and letting viewers advance the slides at their own pace. I think I’m going to be setting individual timings for the animations – major time involvement and a bummer… but it should fix the problem.
I ‘m thinking I may just be able to finish the basic skills and addition section for this course (8 lessons), but plan on finishing the rest (4 – 6 more) and posting them as I have time.
I’m changing the advance sound to a ship’s bell instead of the gong… as much as I enjoyed it, the clip is too long and because it is from the microsoft clipart, I don’t have time to find it and clip it down. Oh well…
See you tonight!
G
November 12, 2009 at 8:31 pm |
I am going to send on your wiki page to a few of my math colleagues for some input… but a really great ideas as many find fractions something that always needs additional support.
November 15, 2009 at 2:20 pm |
Thanks Delise! I hope to have more lessons up soon!
November 12, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
Nice layout and it does provide another avenue to investigate fractions. Good luck with the rest of it.
November 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm |
Thanks Jeff!