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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Math1 Calendar

Survey

animals

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Entering graphics from Google Form

I have a cat.

I have a dog.

I have no animals.

I would like a cat.

I was trying to show the results of a survey by cutting and pasting the summary chart that Google Forms gives. I wanted to show the summary sheet all at once. There must be an easier way. For each graphic I did the following. 1. right click on pic or image 2. "save image as" 3. went to blog where I wanted image 4. clicked on the insert image icon 5. an "upload images" window pops up 6. browsed to select the image and opened it 7. selected accept terms and clicked upload, then done 8. a long address shows up in editing part of the blog but if you preview or just view the blog the image is their.

testing

5 responses Summary See complete responses I have a cat? Yes 2 40% No 1 20% I have a dog? Yes 2 40% No 1 20% I have no animals at home. yes 0 0% no 2 40% I would like a dog. yes 2 40% no 1 20% I would like a cat. yes 2 40% no 1 20% I would like an aligator. yes 3 60% no 0 0% What creature from the list would you like? pig 1 33% duck 1 33% chick 1 33% bear 2 67% mosquito 1 33% fruit fly 2 67% People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%. Number of daily responses Number of responses without dates: 2

Part 6 Response

Part 6 Response Ch.23-26 I used Voki to create an avatar. I created one I thought would suit me well only to find out I would have to pay to use it. I used one that had no likeness to me at all. I'm not sure how some parents might respond to this. Not really worried about it though. The process of sending the avatar to my blog was not at all intuitive as to how. This could be used to introduce myself as a teacher or give instructions in a more interesting was. Creating avatars is fun and I could see students getting into designing it and giving instructions to others in a upcoming events, classwork, and problem solving. I would use it to introduce myself,tell of things to come in the classroom or give short instructions. Voki gives 60 sec to use for narrating. I would need this combined with pictures and/or text on the same page to refer to what I'm talking about. It would be fun to have the avatar pose a question to be answered the next day in class or present a math problem/puzzle or introduce a survey. Maybe connect it to Google Form. Can one avatar talk to another? It would be fun to have two avatars discussing a problem. Or, could they be timed so one avatar asks a question and the other answers. It was easy to give the narration for the avatar by selecting record and talking to the built in mic. I was thinking it would good for someone who wants to remain anonymous to use an avatar and bogus name.

Response to Part 5

Response to Part 5 I created a survey, using Google Form, asking if families had several types of animals in their home. I then shared the survey by email. I sent the email to a different email address of mine that wasn't Gmail and was able to take the survey. I was able to take the survey as many times as I wanted. This didn't show the names. I need to investigate limiting responses to only let a person take the survey once. Under "summary" I got a graphic of pie charts with percentages showing what percent of those responding had dogs, cats, and so forth. I tried saving the results to my blog and had trouble. I got help and was able to do it using "send to" after I right clicked on the page. My blog wouldn't let me copy and paste it in. I can use these to create relevant problems. This will give students practice with percents, fractions, decimals, and statistics. They could make predictions and check them out to see how well they predicted. "If 34% of 15 people surveyed liked dogs, how many do you predict would like dogs in a population of 3500 people? Explain why you think this. What might be the problems with the survey?" I can definitely use this in math to survey students likes and dislikes, preferences, times available, and parent responses. Students could create their won survey and share it with the class. I can see my students enjoying this. It could be out of a class project where they bring the results to class or post it on line. They could have group discussions on their results.

3rd response to standards

Response National Education Tech. Standard#1 Students could use their problem solving knowledge to create a narrative side show using the tech tool Photo Story 3. They would have to think through the step-by-step process writing it out and then narrate it. This could be done at home or in school and then saved to a blog or website or sent via email. This promotes creativity and personal expression and adds fun to their work. Students can pull in creative designs or pictures along with integrating music helping those watching to remember the math process as well as the student who designed it. Students could work together to produce a teaching slide show. I like this part because two heads are better than one and it builds community in the classroom. Photo Story 3 could be used by students to create and explore patterns; "what mathematical expression might represent this pattern." "Can you create a different pattern that has the same math expression?" They could also record there process in a project.