I have a couple of awesome guest posts in the works at the moment which may show their faces this month. If you think you can produce something awesome, let me know! Pro tip: Producing content for your own website? Take a look at my Frase review. I had an interview over at bloggers passion and shared a couple of SEO tips. TheNextWeb also featured one of my posts! Social Profile Updates I was featured in WebMeUp’s SEO experiment roundup and was also thrown a bone by niche hacks. Luke from CoolChatta got in touch with me at the start of the month and offered to redesign my social media profiles. My previous designs weren’t exactly the best, for starters I made them and I’m one of those people that shouldn’t be allowed to own a copy of Photoshop. So I gave Luke some guideline advice of what I would like to see and he came back with 12 different designs to choose from such as-Īfter a bit of feedback and a couple of tweaks we eventually settled on this design. I’m very impressed with them, Luke and the CoolChatta team have done an awesome job! 2851% Facebook ROI – Turning $300 Into $8,853! Luke and his team took that and adapted it for use across Google+ & Twitter. 1 Objective: Given a learning standard that includes a graphing component, the participant will be able to locate a Desmos Activity that could be integrated into a lesson the specific standard and then explain how the activity would enhance student learning.Objective: Given a learning standard that includes a graphing component, the participant will be able to locate a Desmos Activity that could be integrated into a lesson the specific standard and then explain how the activity would enhance student learning. When I share Desmos and Desmos Activity Builder with other math teachers, each one has a unique idea of how to incorporate the technology tools into their own classroom. Each teacher can design the activities and projects to fit their own teaching style and the needs of their students. The Desmos Graphing Calculator allows for registered user to save and share any creation. Upon seeing the capabilities of Desmos Graphing Calulator, a colleague shared with me that he was planning on creating sample graphs to use in his lesson presentations so that students could manipulate the graphs as he demonstrated their characteristics for the whole class. Desmos also allows for users to insert sliders into the graphs. Sliders allow for the user to illustrate how a graph changes as a specific values varies. Here is a sample graph that I created: This particular graph allows students to manipulate the vertex form of a quadratic equation to see how each value changes the graph.ĭiscovery based learning or inquiry based learning is a great technique that can be used to engage students and teach for understanding in mathematics. Desmos Activity Builder opens the door to build more and better inquiry based learning activities. With the interactive features available within Desmos Activity Builder, students can manipulate graphs and equations to build understanding. With the existing and public activities that have been built by Desmos and other mathematics teachers, mathematics instructor across grades 7-12 can find ready to use activities that will encourage student discovery. Watch this video to see what a few of the possibilities are for discovering learning with Desmos: Ĭlick on this link to explore the numerous activities already available for teachers to use: Ī personal goal I have for my math students is to build mathematical language. In order to develop that language, learners must be given opportunities to communicate mathematical. Activity Builders called Polygraphs have enabled me to encourage mathematical communication. As shown in Unit 1, Polygraphs are a mathematical Guess Who? game. One students chooses a graph or image and the other asks yes/no questions to eliminate and choose the correct image. Having to create yes/no questions requires students to utilize the terminology used in class. In graphing, pupils may use vocabulary such as quadrant, vertex, slope, intercepts, and axes. Here is a sample Polygraph on Transformations created by Mike Waechter Students would be required to use vocabulary such as reflection, translation, dilation and rotation to successfully complete the activity.Īs math teachers, it is important to gauge student understanding as we progress through a unit. Desmos Activity Builder provides a teacher dashboard for instructors to tract an entire class of responses or view an individual student's answers. While students work through the activity, teachers have a direct connection to each learner.
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