Project Maths - Ideas for remote delivery to complement face-to-face delivery

[Seanie L]

Hi all,

Has anyone practical suggestions regarding remote/online delivery of the Project Maths curriculum to Leaving Cert students to complement class-time delivery (e.g., at weekends or in the evening time after the kids are gone to bed!)? The volume of content involved in preparing classes for the LC is absolutely phenomenal and indeed intimidating (I'm sure it is similarly off-putting at other class levels!). Having just completed the substantial 5th year programme by the skin of my teeth (and by rushing like a maniac towards the end), I now realize that I will need to provide extra tuition in the forthcoming year in order to adequately complete the entire LC programme. My dilemma is how do I deliver this material efficiently and effectively? I am not in a position to provide extra classes in the school in the evening time.

Faced with a very long commute to and from work each day, and with child-minding commitments in the evening, I was wondering if fellow teacher (and indeed non-teachers) have any novel ideas regarding the delivery of additional material outside of class time to my students? For instance, an increasing trend is to provide course content online for free, enabling students to register and undertake contemporary  (e.g., such as those provided by Coursera and Udacity). Would it be worthwhile, cheap, easy and feasible to provide a similar facility, whereby I could pre-record a video clip concentrating on a particular area of the curriculum, thus enabling the pupils to access those clips as an addendum to class work? (I suppose Youtube would be an appropriate option??)

Unfortunately, having online, interactive, real-time course delivery (such as through the Hibernia college Primary Teaching module) is probably not an option as all students wouldn't have the requisite spec/hardware/facilities to partake in this sort of delivery approach. 

Or indeed, are there other ways of overcoming the outlined issue without jeopardising quality and quantity of delivery?

I would greatly welcome constructive suggestions and advice. 

Thanks in advance,

Seanie

[Laurence cuffe]

At the most basic level, recording video and puting it up on Youtube is always a posibility. The flipped classroom model is one to look at here, you have the students absorb content during homework time and you work with them solving problems in class time. A blended version of this is probably best. One step up from this would be using tools such as Geogebra to make animated diagrams to explain speciifc points, There is of course no nee to reinvent the wheel, as there is a lot of this stuff out there already.  Again even in the recorded video mode, look and see whats out there, sites such as Alison, or The khan Academy, before you roll your own.

One mode I have used is to put up a website for my students, where I have just copied the curriculum, and linked to relevant video's on the topics for the students to revise.

After that its sites such as Edcanvas, or EdModo, where you can set up a class group and do online tests and record progress.  One tip for EdModo maths questions is to use this site: http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/portal.html?locale=default

where you will find a tool which converts hand written equations into Latex for display in Quizzes etc.

These are just a few preliminary thoughts, If you have any more specific enquiries, don't hesitate to get in touch.

All the best

Dr Laurence Cuffe

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[Claire Mc Hugh]

Have a look at gcd.ie!! 

Sent from Claires iPhone

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[Mags Amond]

how about a combination of a Livedcribe pen and a free VLE like Edmodo?

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[Patriona Briggs]

I have recently been made aware of http://www.themathstutor.ie/ . I believe it's free for teachers. 

Sent from my iPad

[Bije Barrett]

Here is the link to the free leaving cert course in Alison for Probability and Statistics.

http://Alison.com/courses/Project-Maths-Strand-1-Probability

 

One word about my experience with Edmodo in relation to testing using their interactive quizzes. They do not have a facility for diagram questions which I found to be a draw back with science/ biology and I'm sure it would be with maths. I got over it by creating separate word pages with the diagrams to the questions and the students had to split the computer screen while doing the quizzes. It was wonderful that their results  went into a data base. But I tried it for 6 months and found the students did not take to it.

 

So I reverted to my interactive package called Articulate Studio 09' and the content I give to them on a memory stick . This they preferred. However I had no database of results. This costs but maybe your school might support you by buying it. However my recommendation if you were going down the road of buying a package  would be to go for Articulate Storyline. It produces content in  HTML and they have tutorials on line on how to use it.

Best Regards,

Bije Barrett

[Bije Barrett]

Here is another website that might be useful for up to transition year.

http://ie.ixl.com/math/year-1

 

[Seanie L]

Thanks to all for the speedy and vast range of replies and suggestions! I will familiarize myself with the various software / resources outlined in the replies and hopefully find a workable solution to the problem.

[Bije Barrett]

Your welcome.

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