Website Project

Well here it is... the moment you've all been waiting for...

Mr Gleason's Area and Volume Website!

http://homepages.bw.edu/~jgleason10/Area Volume Website.htm

My Educational Video

Volume Video



I am doing my website on volume so I made a video to go along with it.

My PLN

This is how I roll...
Ah I guess I don't roll but this is how I learn and try and share what I learn with other people.

Progress Book For Dummies...

Screencast Tutorial of Progress Book
Click here to see the tutorial.
Click here to visit ProgressBook

For my students I would have them use screencasts to explain their answers to online homework assignments they do on Study Island. Since all of the student get different problems it would be help to not only hear why they are choosing an answer, but to also see the problem.
Click here to make your own screencast using Screencast-O-Matic

Shapes Project

Shapes shapes everywhere shapes...

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Check out the still frames here.

Students will find polygons out in their neighborhoods and make photo album of them as I did. Students can use paint to highlight the shapes and post them online on sites like Picasa.

Wiki Love

Teachers...
need an assignment or project...
Check out ktwelve Wiki for all sorts of goodies.

Here are a few post that I added
Solving Equations Project
Conversions Project
Famous Mathematician Project

For students I might set up my own Wiki and have the students use it to create a study guide. No sense in everyone making their own mediocre study guide. Instead, the students will work as a community to develop a high quality study guide.

Solving Equation.wmv

Students will make a creative video that shows their knowledge of a certian skill learned this year.

Solving Equations Again...

Solving Equations
Didn't like the Podcast I made on solving equations try this video!

Quadrilateral Quiz

Use the following code Q00AC-4DC5 to take this online Quadrilateral Quiz.

For my students I might have them create their own quizzes as a quiz. The students will have to think of what is important about the lesson in ordered to create a good quiz. The more they know the better the quiz they will be able to make.

Conversions Project

Famous Bridges

Click here for a virtual tour of Famous Bridges
Enter all of your answers here.

In class we cover conversions. I could have the students make their own virtual tours. In the tour the students would create questions that incorporate conversions about the places they picked for their virtual tours.

Solving Equations Podcast

Sloving Equations Suspense.egg on Aviary.

Homework Help!
Listen to the above podcast to hear the steps for solving equations.

In class I could have students with writing disabilities create podcast for answer that need written responses. Instead of having a teacher write out their answers for them, students could respond on their own using a Web2.0 tool such as aviary.com

In general students could also use podcasts to explain problems they solved that do not require written work, but do require students to process information, such as classifying polygons and 3-D figures. The students could verbally explain why they used the names that they did to name the polygons or figures on a quiz.

"The Great" Mr. Gleason

Famous Mathematician Project
Students will have the opportunity to research a famous mathematician. After the research, students will have to make a presentation and turn their presentation in via a Web 2.0 tool like 280 slides

Pythagorean Theorem WebQuest

Pythagorean Theorem
Please use this WebQuest to learn more about Pythagoras and his theorem.

This year you will all create your own WebQuest. You will work in groups and go back to a topic of your choice and develop a WebQuest of your own that teaches other students the idea. This project increases your knowledge by requiring you to think about what all is important in order to teach the idea.

Visual Study Guide

Graphic Organizer

In order to create an easy study guide for the OAA test this spring, each student will create a graphic organizer. Students can use bubbl.us to create a graphic organizer, like the example above, of any lesson we cover this year. In March I will compile all of the organizers for an easy to use study guide.

Welcome back Students and Parents!

Help me go GREEN!
Please fill out one of these online questionnaires.
Students click here. Parents click here.
Instead of passing out papers that just get put in some filing cabinet, this year I will be using a form made with Google Docs. When you click on the link you will fill out an online form. Click submit and your responses will be put in a nice little spread sheet for me.

My First Blog

Hey this was way easy!