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Editor's note: TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading" which it distributes through talks posted on its website . (CNN) -- When I posted my first math video on YouTube in 2006, I had no idea that it would be the first of a series that would reach well over 2 million unique students a month -- or that this would become my life's focus. Even stranger to the 2006 hedge-fund-analyst Salman would have been the idea that the videos would be the launching point for a not-for-profit organization that would completely rethink how learning can and should be done.
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Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations. Covers all topics in a first year college linear algebra course. This is an advanced course normally taken by science or engineering majors after taking at least two semesters of calculus (although calculus really isn't a prereq) so don't confuse this with regular high school algebra.
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62 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest June 12, 2011 — Tech the Plunge
Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—62 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured
So in this first of many in the series, I would like to cover some of the simple and easy things you can do to help bring some of your course content into the digital age. Specifically, ways you can connect with students at their level, and still maintain your own sanity. Technology is all about us, and many people feel overwhelmed when it comes to solving pedagogical problems. You might be looking at some of this technology or some of my advice and think, “Where do I even begin?”
Developing a Digital Classroom – Working Smarter Not Harder – Part 1
Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker: Create your own cross word puzzles!
To create your criss-cross, follow the steps below and click the “Create My Criss-Cross” button when you are done. Puzzlemaker uses PNG image files which are only viewable in Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers version 4.0 or higher. Go to our Help page if you are having difficulty viewing Puzzlemaker puzzles.
My students tried it out to create their own graphic novels after the reading of Maus by Art Spiegelman. My students said it was fun and they wish they had more time to use it!
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