Math Online: How to Help Students ‘See’ Math When They Can’t See YouDr. Kathy Crooks, Western Governors University

Why are Students Taking An Online Course?

LocationTimeAvailabilityCost

Challenges

AsynchronicityLack of face-to-face interaction with and among instructor and students

IsolationHow to promote active learning?

Join.me

• Share screen • Annotate• Take pictures of screen • Record sessions• Connect via video• Connect with multiple

people

Useful for online student appointments.Student can share their screen with you!

Tablet

Webcam

Google: Docs, Forms, Calendars

• Allow for collaboration and sharing

• Easy way to collect data

• Useful for signups

• Access to live events and important dates

Repository of student responses; can share with other students.

you can book me

• Allows for anyone with link to book appointments

• Integrates with google calendar

• Shows availability to students

($$ - there is a cost for this)

Online Cohorts

• Asynchronous and synchronous

• Allows student to be part of a ‘group’

• Allows for more directed movement

through course

• Keeps student connected

Adobe Connect

($$ - there is a cost for this)

• Meetings & Webinars• Share Screen• Record meetings (can

remove identifying information in recordings)

• Multiple hosts• Voice chat or written chat• Can add web links

Extremely interactive; allows for student-student interaction, chats, polls and recording

MailChimp

• Schedule emails

• Include links• Provides data• Saves emails

Useful for cohort activities, reminders, and keeping students on track.

Youtube

Don’t redo what’s already been done!

Purplemath

….and other online sites…

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Make Information Available

Thank you!

kathleen.crooks@wgu.edu