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YouTube Alternatives

Patty O'Flynn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:37:30 +0000

I’m a big fan of the blog FREE TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS because after all, free is the right price. Two of their posts share some interesting YouTube alternatives.

One reason you may want a YouTube alternative is that many districts have blocked access to YouTube. Within my own district, access is blocked to everyone during school hours because of bandwidth issues but it opens to staff before and after school hours. Nice, but doesn’t help me during class although the tech department will download YouTube vids during off hours for use the next day. If you also have access issues, here is a great post that gives 30+ alternatives to YouTube that may work for you.

Another post gives another YouTube alternative called Vidque, a new service that aims to help users curate their own collections of the best videos available on the Internet. Vidque allows users to grab videos fromvarious sources such as YouTube, Blip.tv, TED, and Vimeo and put them into collections that they can share and it even uses the videos you grab to help you locate more videos.

Minoru webcam

Patty O'Flynn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:31:16 +0000

This is the cutest little webcam I’ve ever seen, and I want one.

Math & Technology in Today’s Classroom

Patty O'Flynn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:49:48 +0000

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).

NECC 2008

Patty O'Flynn — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:52:02 +0000

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.

Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting…

Patty O'Flynn — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:05:06 +0000

Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting posted by Paul Allison is a jam-packed thirty-nine minutes that explores the power of tagging, teachers using tumblogs, mathcasts, VoiceThreads in health, speech, history, math, music, technology, and EFL classes. This session includes an interview with my friend, Tim Fahlberg, on mathcasts. What’s a mathcast, you ask? Well, mathcasts are screencasts (screen movies) of writing with voice that focus on mathematics, and Tim is the pioneer in this field who got me and my students started 3 years ago.

Click here to learn more about mathcasts and to view mathcasts created by me and my students. You can also learn more about mathcasts by visiting Tim’s mathcast wiki at http://math247.pbwiki.com/.

FreeScreenCast.com

Patty O'Flynn — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:37:13 +0000

If you’d like to begin creating mathcasts and you use a Windows PC, then FreeScreenCast can make screencasting simple for you.

Just install the screencast recorder, select the part of the screen you want to record, record it, upload your screencast, and then share it. Give it a try!

from http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/freescreencast/

Algebra Mathcasts

Patty O'Flynn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:57:48 +0000

Students were randomly placed in groups using the “pick a student” feature in CPS and were then given a problem having to do with polynomials from an ExamView problem bank. Each group or pair then created a mathcast of their solution and their reasoning. Some groups still have to finish up tomorrow but several are now posted at Mathematics with Mrs. O’Flynn: Mathcasts under Periods 1 and 6, Ch 6 Polynomials. Their next task is to evaluate their own movie using this checklist and feedback form and to get at least one other person (adult or student who is not a group member) to give them feedback.

My students would appreciate your feedback! Please send feedback to

Our Recent Student Mathcasts

Patty O'Flynn — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:45:15 +0000

My students have published their first round of mathcasts this year. My Algebra 2 classes recorded portions of their cup lab in which they find a linear function that approximates the height of stacked cups, and our Pre Calculus mathcasts show and explain how to graph a sinusoid. You can view these projects at our school site under Mathcasts at http://www.woodlandschools.org/index.php?q=node/741 .

EduComm 2007 sessions

Patty O'Flynn — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:19:20 +0000

Presenting at EduComm this year was a great experience but didn’t really allow time in my schedule to attend any sessions. Well, here is a page of 2007 EduComm Post-Event Conference Material with links to handouts and videos of sessions so now I can watch them. And so can you.

On YouTube: Creating a Starboard Mathcast

Patty O'Flynn — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:44:14 +0000

I have posted a video that shows how to create a mathcast:

I created this video using my Hitachi Starboard software and BT-G2 Bluetooth tablet, but it’s a very similar process if you’ve got a SMARTboard.