This document summarizes an online webinar about teaching math online featuring four online math teachers. It provides an overview of their online math courses on platforms like Moodle, Blackboard, and WebCT. It also shares resources for teaching elementary, middle, and high school math online and highlights one teacher's statistics course that uses chat sessions and three tiers of practice problems.

1. Teaching Math OnlineWith Your Host: Dr. Julia ParraFeaturing Awesome Online Math Teachers: Tyson Rush, Sandy Johnson, Stacey Alley, & Naomi Schmidt

2. Online Math ShowcaseLet’s try and peek in on a Moodle math course 

3. Tyson Rush is a high school Math teacher and currently working on designing courses for Blackboard. Previously, has designed blended class for Geometry, Algebra and Adv. Algebra.

4. The Front page to the blended Geometry Moodle Course

5. Algebra 1 Weeks 2&3, 4&5 assignments and math games.

6. Using the InterwriteSmartBoard to introduce Coordinate Geometry using midpoint and distance

8. Online Math Course ShowcaseLet’s go take a peek at another online math course, this time in Blackboard  High School Geometry

9. Stacy Alley is employed with the Las Cruces Public Schools. She has been a Math teacher at Las Cruces High School for 11 years and an online instructor and course developer with IDEAL-NM for 2 years. Currently she is piloting an online Honors Geometry class to meet the needs of gifted middle school students for the LCPS district.

10. COURSE STRUCTURE

11. STUDENT ASSESSMENT

12. STUDENT ASSESSMENTFigure 2Figure 1Assessment created in an .rtf formatAssessment created with Examview

13. SYNCHRONOUS SESSIONS IN WIMBAMobi boardeInstruction

14. FAVORITE RESOURCE SPOTSregentsprep.orgphschool.com

15. Online Math Course ShowcaseIt’s our lucky day, we have one more online math course, this time, a university course in WebCT/Blackboard 

16. Naomi Schmidt teaches undergraduate statistics at NMSU. She has taught in a traditional setting for 9 years and online for 5 years. As part of her own learning process for online teaching, she earned a graduate Certificate of Online Teaching from NMSU in 2007.She is especially interested in simple techniques for collaborative learning in math courses such as synchronous chat.When she’s not teaching or grading (!), she’s usually working in the yard or walking the dog.

17. Features that work for meThree-tier approach to materialUse of synchronous communication tool, chatUse of pdf file format for instructor feedback

18. Structure of my course in BlackboardLearners review the course material and complete the first tier of problems,Sample Problems. Detailed solutions are provided.2) Learners complete the second tier of problems, Pair Practice Problems, and discuss approaches and solutions in chat sessions. Chat transcript is submitted as an assignment.3) Learners complete the third tier of problems, the Homework Problems,and submit as an assignment.

19. My experience with chat in my online statistics courseWhat is Chat? Text typing, synchronous discussion, recorded transcript Chat is an integral part of my courseChat fosters improved learning outcomesChat increases learner engagement with the course and each otherChat enables learners to teach each otherChat is hard for me to gradeLearners themselves valued chat sessions!What did learners think? ~13 out of 16 felt the chats were “helpful or very helpful in learning the material”“Chats were a way to compare answers with someone and let me know if I was on right or wrong track”“Chats allowed me to ask other students for help and get their input on how to solve a question from their perspective.”

20. Use of pdf files

21. Online Math Resources

22. Elementary ResourcesBrain Pop Free Stuffhttp://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/WebMath.comhttp://www.webmath.com/index3.htmlEducational Resources for K-8 Kidshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math.htmlGeometry Games and Resourceshttp://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/geometry.phpMr. R's World of Mathhttp://mathstory.com/

23. Middle School ResourcesMath Snackshttp://mathsnacks.org/Brain Pop Free Stuffhttp://www.brainpop.com/free_stuff/Ask Dr Mathhttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/The World of Math Onlinehttp://www.math.com/

24. High School ResourcesRegents Exam Prep CenterAlgebra - http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/math-ALGEBRA.htmGeometry - http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/geometry/math-GEOMETRY.htmOnline Math Helphttp://webwork.maa.org/moodle High School Math http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/math-hs.html Interactive Mathhttp://www.intmath.com/Geogebra Interactive Mathhttp://www.geogebra.org/cms/Dimensions Online Videoshttp://dimensions-math.org/Dim_reg_E.htmThe World of Math Onlinehttp://www.math.com/Connexions http://cnx.org/Free Online Math Courseshttp://education-portal.com/articles/Where_to_Find_Free_Math_Courses_Online.htmlThe Calculus Pagehttp://www.calculus.org/

25. Resource for this Webinarhttp://retapedia.pbworks.com/Teaching-Online-Math

26. Join Us Later This Week!!Innovate-Educate/NMSTE Conference 2010http://webinars.nmsu.edu/Online Science & Virtual Labs on Thursday at 12:30pm MT