I Bought My First 3D WebCam!

I'm a bit excited. I just ordered the new Minoru 3D Webcam from Amazon! Can't wait to try it out.

Equation Editor

Google Equation Editor Gadget is kind of cool.

Screencasting English

Been an exciting week! One of our English teachers began making
student-created videos!

[via iphone]

Happy Mathcast 2nd Anniversary!

This week marks the 2nd anniversary of our first "official" student-created math video.  "Bob" decided she wanted to make a proportion video, and so it all started.  Up to that point, I had begun making little tutorials as "the teacher".  In early 2006, I had discovered Camtasia Studio (screen recording software).  After "Bob" made her first video, other students wanted to make them too.  It was then that I realized the power of what Daniel Foster of TechSmith would latter call, "kids teaching kids".

The first videos were posted as links onto Mathtrain.com.  Within a year after our first video, I created the video site, Mathtrain.TV, to host our student content.  Today, students continue to come by to make mathcasts.  It has come to the point where I need another tablet pc to meet the after school student-demand.  Anyway, Happy 2nd Anniversary!

FETC Presentation, Orlando, FL

It's been a few weeks since the FETC conference, but I wanted to write how much fun it was. I always like meeting others in the ed-tech genre.

After a delayed flight from LAX to Orlando, I arrived the night before my scheduled Saturday presentation. I presented: "Kids Teaching Kids via Tablet PC, Moodle and Student-Created Screencasts". Much of the collaboration my students do is through our class web site, Mathtrain.Com, and our student-created math video site, Mathtrain.TV.

The videos on Mathtrain.TV are created by using a Tablet PC and screen recording software called, Camtasia Studio.