Plan for Video Lesson Introduction

I think the best way to introduce a topic is to make it fun and interesting. If you keep the students on their toes and surprise them with what you do, you will have succeeded in getting them thinking about whatever topic you are introducing.

That being said, I plan on making a video of myself goofing around with some concepts in mathematics. Specifically, I will introduce a lesson on symmetries and transformations of the graph of a quadratic equation. I think the idea of just a voice speaking while the students watch things change on a screen is really cool, I just like the presence of a teacher for something like this. So I am going with a video.

We shall see how it goes. I am trying to have fun with this because math is something I love and it should be fun!

Legal Concerns

I guess when it comes to legal concerns for my future as an educator I think a lot about what my legal responsibilities will be and whether or not these responsibilities will be reasonable. Specifically, I am concerned with how they might begin evaluating a teacher's performance based on test scores and start basing pay, and job security on these evaluations. How innaccurate could these test scores reflect how well one fulfills their job as teacher and instructor? It is kind of a complicated topic but it is one that concerns me.

Presentation Tool Review

I kind of played around with Google Presentation, Google's version of Power Point. What really intrigued me about this program is the ability, like with Google Docs, to work together on one presentation from different computers. Getting students to work togerther and share ideas is reallu crucial to their learning. This tool makes that easy and simple.

As a math person I would like to see a tool that had the ability to type set mathematics that was easy like the toold we saw in class. Typing math is the worst, mostly because you have to use a seperate program to do it. If typing math could be incorporated into a program like google presentation, students could share ideas, and work together more easily! How great would that be?!?!