I’m currently preparing to present at NCCE 2009 in Portland this February. My session is regarding the ways in which my students and I use Moodle in our math classroom. It should be a great conference and I hope to see you there! 
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February 17-20, 2009
Oregon Convention Center
Portland Oregon
FEARLESS TECH EDUCATION CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Find out how school districts are saving money with Open Source Software and how it can improve teaching and learning in the classroom!
Workshops
- Open Source for Schools
- Moodle for n00bs (newbies)
- Web 2.0 Basics: You mean you can do THAT on the internet?
- Create Powerful Learning with Moodle
- Free Internet/Online Tools to Increase Student Achievement
- Multimedia Moodle Marvels
- Managing Moodle for Teaching and Learning
- Web 2.0: All you can eat buffet
- School 2.0: Living Learning and Leading in a flat world
- Making Moodle Matter for Learners and Families
Educators, Administrative Leaders and Technical Staff will experience how Open Source Software increases both access and opportunities for students and teachers.
Concurrent Sessions
- MUG-NW (Moodle User’s Group) Gathering
- Web 2.0 – Voice, video on the web for free! Skype, UStream, Voice Thread
- Moodling in Math <— This is my session
- The IT Admins Guide to Managing Web 2.0 in Schools
- Open Source Smackdown
- Web 2.0 – Collaboration Tools you can’t live without. Delicious and Google docs
- Content Management Systems for Schools (Drupal, Joomla and others)
- Using Moodle: Supporting Administrators and Professional Development
- Opening Doors to Learning with Moodle
SEARCH LEARN and EXPLORE @ www.ncce.org
Qipit is a free online tool that allows you to copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish. Just take a picture of a document with your camera phone and send the picture from your phone or via email to copy@qipit.com. You’ll receive a link to the online PDF copy of your document, all for free. I have other ways to share my whiteboard slides and notes, but this would be a great tool for students.
I found out about Qipit from the article 10 Useful Web Applications You Don’t Know About
Despite my long summer absence, I have been very busy preparing new technology for this upcoming school year. My most recent project is developing math courses using Moodle. Four of us (3 teachers and our tech director) attended the MUG NW Summer Moodle Bootcamp in July and two us us are currently participating in an online Moodle course, Create Powerful Online Learning with Moodle. We are also working on developing our Moodle courses for this upcoming school year; you can view my courses (they are works in progress!) at Woodland School District Courses. I would appreciate your feedback!
In the midst of all that, I spent two weeks in Maui which was fantastic – I snorkeled with a shark and a barracuda (not purposely, believe me!) and learned to surf! Click on the pics below if you’d like to see more Hawaii pics on Facebook.
Aloha!
I will be presenting this summer at the Summer Institute in Olympia, WA. During my session, Math & Technology in Today’s Classroom, I’ll show how I use technology such as the electronic whiteboard, student response systems, software, mathcasts and video projects to promote student learning and achievement and for assessment (both formative and summative).
I use Examview to create practice quizzes for my students. Here is Practice Test 7.1-7.4 that works with ExamView Test Player; I’ve used dynamic questions so that students get a new version of each question every time. ExamView Test Player is available as a free download so students can take practice tests at home.
Here’s the info you will need to access the practice quiz:
Password: imamathwiz
Name: Please just use your own name. If you are not one of my math students and want to take the quiz just for fun (and let’s face it, who wouldn’t?), just enter “guest”.
ID: not necessary
If you are a student in my Advanced Algebra class and wish to retake Quiz 7.1-7.4, you must take this practice quiz and score at least 80% before you can schedule your retake. You are able to take this practice quiz multiple times (it’ll change the numbers in the problems each time you open it). When you are finished, please print your results when you finish the practice quiz and bring it to me along with your original quiz corrections.
At InterMath: Constructionary, users can obtain a list of constructions in Geometer’s Sketchpad. Clicking on a letter of the alphabet gives a list of constructions for that letter. When you chose a construction, clicking on the numbers shows the steps for that construction. Clicking on “Notes” at each step will give a brief description, and I do mean brief, so newbies may need additional help. This is not a stand-alone tutorial but definitely makes a great resource.
I have just posted two Camtasia Studio screencast tutorials for my students.
The first shows how to add markers within a Camtasia project.
The second movie shows how to produce your Camtasia project as a Flash movie with a table of contents.
These tutorials can be found at Mathematics with Mrs. O’Flynn on our Mathcasts page under Technology.
For those who want to learn more about mathcasts, I’m pleased to announce that Tim Fahlberg along with a wonderful team of partners (including yours truly 
) will be conducting a session at NECC entitled Mathcast Spaces: Thinking, Doing, and Sharing Mathematics Out Loud.
Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). Softwarefor.org has gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a full-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more. This is a great solution for students who may not currently have access to these programs on a home computer. Our tech department has offered to burn a CD for any student who doesn’t have a fast enough internet connection to download it for themselves.
After our study of composition of ordinates and harmonic analysis, my Pre Calculus students were given the task of creating a picture drawn completely with equations. Their project had to include at least one sinusoid with a variable axis and at least one with a variable amplitude, and they had to include any necessary domain restrictions. Here are some of this year’s projects:
They used TI Connect software to download their graphs from their graphing calculators and then edited/colored them in Paint.
Another student used WinPlot software (a free download) to create his project:
Here are some more projects from previous years:
