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10 Quick Tips for Building an Interactive Math Course in Canvas
10 Quick Tips for Building an Interactive Math Course in Canvas 1906 1452 mathgrrl
Fall semester is coming and you’re teaching online… let’s pause for a small scream 😭 Next year we’ll all be experts and there will be no end of talks, papers, and blog posts that we can use to figure out what to do. But right now we need the quick and dirty. What can we do NOW, and fast, to make our online math course content more interactive and engaging? If you’re getting ready to teach math online and your school’s LMS is Canvas, here are 10 quick tips to get you rolling.
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Using LaTeX with the New Canvas Quiz Engine
Using LaTeX with the New Canvas Quiz Engine 800 601 mathgrrl
Okay. Deep breath. It’s time to start figuring out how to teach online… I mean, how to do Actually Do It Well, not just as an emergency solution thrown together over a frenzied and sleepless week. There is a lot to work to do, so let’s start with something small: online math quizzes. In this post we’ll walk through how to use LaTeX typesetting in both the new and legacy Canvas quiz engines.
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3D Scanning Works, If You’ve Got the $$$
3D Scanning Works, If You’ve Got the $$$ 800 600 mathgrrl
3D scanning is a serious pain and in my experience none of the solutions have worked particularly well in terms of capturing fine details… but that’s because I keep trying to make it work with free software and tools. As with so many things in life, it turns out that 3D scanning actually works, if you’ve got the money. In this post we’ll compare scanning options with Trnio, Qlone, Meshroom, and EinScan.
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Back It Up: A Guide to Protecting Your Online Content
Back It Up: A Guide to Protecting Your Online Content 710 528 mathgrrl
Companies come and go, especially online. Data gets lost, start-ups don’t get past start, and businesses go belly-up. How do you protect your content?…
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SONY Paper for Reading Technical Mathematics
SONY Paper for Reading Technical Mathematics 640 480 mathgrrl
I brought nearly 1000 research papers and over 200 books with me to Peru this spring. Not in heavy stacks and stapled packets, but on a SONY Digital Paper, a large-format e-reader that is basically the size of a thick piece of standard 8.5 x 11 paper. The Paper is the first electronic device I’ve used that is suitable for reading technical mathematics research papers… // Hacktastic
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Taking Better Photographs of Your 3D Prints
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If you already know something about photography or if you have a nice camera, then this post isn’t for you. Today’s tutorial is for people like me, who needed an easy way to make their phone photos a little bit better and don’t want to break the bank doing it. And as an excuse to photograph for detail, we’ll check out some test prints from the new HP MultiJet Fusion 3D Printer… // Column at Shapeways
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Minecraft Star Wars Trash Compactor & 3D-printed Remote Control Pants
Minecraft Star Wars Trash Compactor & 3D-printed Remote Control Pants 628 472 mathgrrl
I think I may have been waiting my whole life to write that title. For the littlebits bitWars Challenge we teamed up with Minecraft adventurers rileypb and cgreyninja to re-create the Trash Compactor Scene from Star Wars. Redstone and pistons were activated by a cloudBit that allowed real-world interaction, and we also included an automatic silverfish generator and a villager to play Chewie… // Hacktastic
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