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By: Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:14:52 +0000

Andy,
I too like the commoncraft videos. Thanks for reminding me about them. I think I’ll introduce that type of only hands video and ask my grade 10 math students to create their own’ I can hardly wait to see what they come up with.

By: Andy M

Andy M — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:46:48 +0000

Thanks Elona. The use of video is great, and the flip-cam is one of the easiest. I found that students in my maths classes, 15 year olds, were not too keen on having their “faces” videoed though. Perhaps doing maths has a stigma. However once they were introduced to the concepts of the Common Craft ( http://www.commoncraft.com/) they became quite “animated”. Some of them are now producing wonderful short videos, showing only their hands solving geometry problems. For me the teacher it is a useful assessment tool as the audio content of their discussions adds another dimension to their written content….and all in the one compact video.
Like you, I found that simply handing the students the flip-cam with a few hints was enough to get a result. Cheers