Ryan Brown's Instructional Multimedia Blog

Multimedia Assessment For this portion of the week's assignment, I chose a video to review finding the slope between two points on a graph and using the slope formula.  It was difficult finding a good video that covered what I was looking for that stayed within the time constraints.  I feel that in the future, I would probably make my own video to use.  Playposit was easy to use but I did run into issues with a question or two not saving initially.  It was probably user error and once I got over the learning curve, it seems quite easy.  I feel the video is not my best work and that is mainly due to the video itself.  I wanted to use a video that was about slope that I could use for remediation.  Slope is a difficult topic for 8th graders.  I feel that I squeezed some good questions out of the video but, like I said before, I feel I could have gotten more out of a video of better quality.  I can see the merit in this as it does a great job ...

Concept maps are a way to present thoughts and ideas in an easy to visually digest format.  It lays all the thoughts out in a way that chunks them together into subgroups.  For this week, I decided to create a map that I could use as an example of student work.  My idea was to get students to work in pairs or in threes and create a mind map that could be used to sum up a mathematical concept or unit discussed in class.  Some examples students could pick from would be equations, inequalities, linear functions, factoring, exponent rules, systems of equations, quadratics, and so on.  They could also pick a topic and get more specific such as types of slope and methods to find them or what makes a relation a function and how that applies to different representations of functions.  The end goal for my students would be creating a concept map that could be used as a quick teaching tool for other students. The question the students would need to answer would be ...