My Favorite Program/App.

  I have one app, I use all the time when I need something.  I use it for making recordings, animation, posters, videos, and anything else I can think of.  I can create a multi slide presentation or use just one slide.  What is this elixir of presentations?

It is keynote.   I absolutely adore Keynote because it does all those things and more.  I can do so much with it for my math class.


1.  Using My Script Math pad, I can create any and all math equations and then send them to dropbox or google and then bring it into keynote.  This is an app for my iPad that allows me to use my finger to write equations and it automatically turns the handwriting into text.  It is beautiful and so easy to use.

2.  Keynote itself allows me to create animated slides so I can show movement of numbers or of shapes. I made an animated slide showing congruence explained through translations.  I've put sound to it and it was cool.

3. I've imported short stop motion animation of nets that change from flat 2 dimensional to 3 dimensional shapes.

4.  I've imported pictures and put text onto the picture to make a poster with math terms.  I had fun exploring it.

5.  I can show how to solve equation step by step using bullets and special effects.

This is only a short list of what I can do with Keynote.  I'm using a different computer right now but I'm hoping to post an entry with examples of all of these things plus more.

Keynote

This morning  I am working on three keynote presentations.  One that shows dividing polygons into triangles so students see where the formula comes from before doing the activity themselves.  This one is just a simple going from slide to slide with no animation.

The second I am going to do later today will be on congruent triangles and using transformations to prove they are congruent.  I can use the move and build order commands to accomplish that.

The third, if I get it done, will be on LCM both using both multiples and prime factoring.  Again, I'll use the commands so I can move things around to create the movement I need.

Once these are completed, I'll incorporate the short presentations into the presentation I'm giving on Wednesday at Schools of the Future, in Honolulu, Hawaii.  On Tuesday, at 2:45, I have a presentation titled  "Now What Do I Do?"  Its on integrating apps into effectively into math lessons so as to cover building prior knowledge, remediation and build skills.   The other, "This is not English?", is scheduled at 10:00 on Wednesday and is on integrating literacy into the math classroom.

So I will be posting at the end of the day after I've presented and attended some really interesting presentation.  I am excited and can hardly wait.  If you are going to be at the conference, look me up.