Joan

Assignment 1

I found a pod cast associated with a HACC Intermediate Algebra course. This online course comes from the Harrisburg Area Community college. It was nice that he instructor introduced herself before she started her instruction. This made it a little bit more personal. Included in this course are pod casts for each topic in the course. As well as the pod casts the course has worksheets in PDF form to help aid the process in learning the topics. The lessons that I watched were easy to understand with step by step instructions with the instructor's discussion in the background.

I would send my students to watch the pod casts to reiterate the material discusses in class. I would also have them print off the worksheets so they have more practice. The answers ares are also given, so the students can check their work immediately. Students that miss class due to field trips and sickness can learn the material from the pod cast. This could be an asset for my students because the district has the teachers involved in meetings after school when the students would come in for extra help.

Assignment 2

10 content specific (Educational) applications.

Paperport Notes is a free app that is used to annotate and create text notes. I would use this application in my class daily to take notes and annotate the notes that are already online on my wiki page.

Sound EFX is a free application of sound effects. I plan to use these sound effects as the noise used to have my students transition to the next topic or activity. This will be better than me trying to talk over them. I think they will really like this.

Calc Pro HD is a free scientific calculator app. Students are always forgetting their calculator so it would be nice for them to have a backup because they would never forget their ipad. This would work for an Algebra I class, Tech Math class, or my Geometry class. I was looking for a calculator that is not too complicated for the lower levels. This calculator has many other features if you buy the full version.

Free GraCalc is a free graphing calculator app. This free app can graph many different types of functions. It is hard to use and not very similar to the hand held graphing calculators that are required for Algebra II class. It would be difficult to teach this calculator in class without a lot of practice.

BYB Math (Burn Your Brain Math) is a free app that reinforces basic math facts. I could use this app in my Tech Math class to increase their basic math facts. One game only takes a few minutes. It is timed game so we could have a competition in class in the last ten minutes of class when they seem to be shutting down.

FactorRace is a free app to help students with the concept of factoring. This would be helpful for the many students that struggle with this concept in Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra II. Students could use this application just a few minutes each day and improve this skill by just playing this game. It gave more than one chance to get the right answer.

MathGraph is a free app that can graph a line, circle, ellipse, parabola, polynomial, absolute value, exponential, and both logartithmic functions. TWhen discussing these graphs in class this application would be helpful to show how each number in the equation changes the graph. Tying the visual to the Algebra would help some students.

AlgebraGenie is a free app that is a math tutorial. It has good information, but it is kind of boring to listen to so I am not sure if the students would llike it or not. It could be an alternative to learn the concepts when they are absent.

FactrSamurai is a free app that helps students recognize the difference between prime and composite numbers. It is a quick paced game that can be used individually to increase number sense. I thought is was a fun way to practice this math concept.

Algebra Intro is a free app that has a limited number of concepts in the menu for the free version. It helps stgudents with some major concepts such as like and unlike terms, negatives, multiplication, and the order of operations.This would be helpful in a special education classroom for some of my math students so they can reinforce some of the basics.

Five personal applications and how do you plan to use them? CBS 7 Radar is an application that will help me find the current weather and radar when there is a storm. I plan to use this when we travel and at our cabin since we have no televsion. I can go to the library and use the wifi there.

Mahjong is a card (tile) game that will hopefully help me relax. This is something I don't do much.

Math Games is an application to help my son learn his basic math facts. He is working on multiplication at the moment and he could use any gimmic I can find to get him to study.

HealthRecipe app is an application that will help me be more creative when it comes to food and a healthy meal for my family.

Learn Guitar for Free app is going to help my son who is learning how to play the guitar. He does teach him a lot so watching this could be very helpful inbetween lessons.

Assignment #3

Works Cited Wilk, Max, and Lee Minoff. //Yellow Submarine//. New York: New American Library, 1968. Print

Berkley, Charles. //Ibooks//. University of Oxford, 1735. Print.