AMATYC Conference

Digital Learning: Activities to Support Creative Online Collaboration

• Learned of many great ideas for using online products such as OneDrive, Jing, Fooplot, Desmos
• Teaching how to make screencast videos would be a good skill for pre-teacher classes. 
• "Sneak in the vegetables to dinner" when having students make videos because they love doing videos and are learning math at the same time!
• Students provide much better work with it is peer collaboration and reviewed.

No Autopilot in Online Courses: Be Present, Active, and Engaged

• An online class is only as good as the worst teacher assigned to it. 
• Course should be designed so that the instructor is present, active and engaged with the students. (Otherwise, why can t we put 900 students in each section??)
• Needs a variety of activities
• I like the idea she gave of "Quests" (not a quiz or a test) as a high level assessment. Examples: Web Scavenger Hunt where students search for and critique math websites and videos online of a certain topic
• In announcements, post detailed things. "Many of you asked questions like this ______. We learned this______. Here is a great resource for ______." 

Ten Engaging Mathematical Topics

• This workshop gave some fun ideas to engage students in topics, such as mortgages, lottery probabilities etc. 

Marrying Mathematics and Media for Humor and Relevance

• "Knowing math makes jokes funnier"

Helping Students with Math Anxiety

Click here to view the handout I made about some things in this awesome workshop!