Here’s where I have to admit that I used MathType for YEARS before I learned this little tip. However, it’s one of those that I use all the time now that I have learned it.Have you ever had mathematical text that...
Read MoreThis video Did You Ever Wonder? produced by Bill Farren, provides, according to the author, a counterpoint to the Did You Know? by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod. Did You Wonder… – video powered by Metacafe Here are...
Read MoreI stumbled across this great video tonight – a follow-up to Michael Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today. The video is documentory/mashup-style and is suprisingly insightful – called Academia 2.0. Sit back and...
Read MoreWhen I left class on Tuesday – I just didn’t feel like I had gotten class “right” that morning. I had tried to use the commenting tools in Word, but with the recording software running, the screen kept...
Read MoreThe most difficult to visualize volumes are the ones that are NOT the result of a revolution around a line. For example… imagine a solid with a circular base, and cross sections that are equilateral triangles with their...
Read MoreI’ve always thought I would’ve made a good pioneer.Check out my User Story in the latest Education Edition of the TechSmith Newsletter.Things are still pretty busy – five and a half chapters down… five...
Read MoreIt’s one of my favorite weeks in Calculus: Volumes of Rotation Week!I thought I would share my current collection of Volume demos. Today I’ll start with the site Demos with Positive Impact, build by David R. Hill and...
Read MoreMy friend Mike Lively (from Northern Kentucky University) just gave a presentation in Washington DC about the Globalization of Higher Education. Mike is the Director of Instructional Design at Northern Kentucky University....
Read MorePearson just came out with a press release about their new enVisionMATH curiculum, which they claim “meets the iPod Generation on its Turf.”Here’s Pearson’s marketing video – hard to tell from this...
Read MoreDavid R. Hill (of Demos with Positive Impact) was nice enough to create demos for the three problems I requested on a previous post.The Cylinder Problem The Beacon Following a Person ProblemThe Inverted Cylindrical Tank Problem...
Read MoreI think it would be a good idea for every instructor who teaches in an online/hybrid format to know a little bit of HTML code. It can come in handy when you’re making comments on message boards with plain-text editors and...
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I promised (long ago) to share some of the Action Button material that you can do in PowerPoint...
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