Jason+M.

For Jason M.

1. Objective: practice making a screencast video to be used by my math students. 2. Video URL: http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=zdQenfE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnqQDwSiaC0 3. Why did you make the video the way you did? It was the most natural way to explain the material. 4. What are some other ways you could have presented the material using video? sure sure.

Peer Reactions:

I was glad to see how you could link to the ShowMe site- thanks for that. On the second video- I'd like to know how you did it... the pad seems too far away, and your voice isn't that clear. Dick

From Emily D: 1) Different colors for visual organization of information. 2) Nice blowing up and minimizing the image of example 3) In 2nd video, I like that page fits the screen and does not move, which is a possible distraction. Did you tape it down?

like use of different colors. :-)

From Matt B.


 * Good use of color. I really liked how you used the different colors to make clear what things you were adding to each step.
 * I liked how you emphasized the derivation of the term "completing the square"
 * you chose a nice simple example, which emphasized the major steps

Here are some ideas about ways it could be improved.
 * Do you need to say something about how the process differs if the lead coeff is not 1
 * I think that the connection between the graph and the formula wasn't strong enough. I wasn't clear that the standard form equation really didn't have a clear connection to your graph.