Next week is the Annual Conference for the PCTM. I plan to be there on Thursday November 7th. This is a great chance to see what is going on in the area of Mathematics. The program includes keynote address from Dr. Johnna Bolyard, West Virginia University and Dr. Fran Arbaugh, Penn State University. Dr. Bolyard will
DEN Techformation – Using GoodReader
GoodReader is probably my favorite app on the iPad and the one I get the most use out of. This is a universal file reader and annotator. It supports file formats: PDF, TXT,• MS Office – .doc, .ppt., .xls, iWork ’08/’09, HTML and Safari webarchives, High resolution images, Even audio and video!. I use it
Calling All Stars On Stage
Now that Fall VirtCon is past us how will we ever keep up with what is going on with all our beloved STAR Discovery Educators. Fear not If you are presenting at a conference just fill out the form at the link. We will add it to this Website and we can all support each other at
Journey To Online Teaching -Online Teaching – Blog Series
Last week I wrote a post Online Teaching Strategies Suggestion? After more consideration I have decided this would make a good blog series “Journey To Online Teaching” (JOT). I plan to write about my journey to becoming an online teacher in the fall of 2014. I have started my journey by taking the first of two
DEN Techformation – Pixlr
The ability to edit photos has become an indispensable tool in an educators box. I am a math teacher and in order to create assessments, worksheets, study guides, lesson presentations…etc. I need to be able to edit pictures, create drawings, and combine elements of them both into one element on a page. Until the last few
Online Teaching Strategies Suggestion?
I am taking a course on online teaching and I would like to start a conversation with you all about online teaching strategies. I will be making a course at the end of this year and would love to have input from the DEN. So if you teach online or take a course online what
DEN Techformation – Leveraging A MOOC
What is a MOOC? (see video below) It is a Massive Open Online Course. Most times it is completely free. Carnegie Mellon offers “No instructors, no credits, no charge.” Forty public universities will offer free online courses with full credit starting spring 2013. Why would a school do that well in an effort to entice potential students
DEN Fall VirtCon – Bucks County PA F2F
Come join me in Bucks County PA for a VirtCon Face to face. I believe this may be the only one. I am planing on having it in my home and it will be Kid friendly so feel free to bring yours. Lets get together and have some fun in my kid friendly house. We
DEN Techformation – Let’s Get it started again
Hello to all readers of the DEN Techformation blog series. We had a good run for a while and then took a bit of a break. Let’s jump back in and get stated again. What do you think? If you are interested in writing a post in the DEN Techformation series let me know
Project based learning in math
I just finished reading a post in Education Weekly that was given to me by my principle Chuck Malone . He asked us to comment on it with respect to our content area using google+ and I thought I would re-post it here. “Pick compelling subjects: help students frame big but specific questions;” (Deeper Project Based Learning, Tom