Teaching in a Time of Plague
Mar. 27th, 2020 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI have now begun posting online material for my students in all three classes.
All of the material will be asynchronous; my students can view it at their leisure, but there will be no immediate feedback. This is primarily because some of my students have limited access - spotty internet, phone access only, and so on. Partly it's due to technical and supply difficulties; I haven't worked out how to do audio yet (but should get that cleared up soon) and I still don't have a webcam (Amazon says it'll arrive in another few days).
The two history of math classes, I'm so far handling via PowerPoint slide shows. Differential geometry doesn't fit that motif well, so I'm posting Word documents expanding on the text and offering exercises. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the humongous calculations that pop up a few times in the next sections; I planned to use my Wacom tablet, but I still have to get it registered, which means I have to get some ID numbers off the back, which I can't make out. I've ordered another magnifying glass from Amazon, but it'll be a couple of weeks before it gets here.
I'm trying, folks. I really am...
All of the material will be asynchronous; my students can view it at their leisure, but there will be no immediate feedback. This is primarily because some of my students have limited access - spotty internet, phone access only, and so on. Partly it's due to technical and supply difficulties; I haven't worked out how to do audio yet (but should get that cleared up soon) and I still don't have a webcam (Amazon says it'll arrive in another few days).
The two history of math classes, I'm so far handling via PowerPoint slide shows. Differential geometry doesn't fit that motif well, so I'm posting Word documents expanding on the text and offering exercises. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the humongous calculations that pop up a few times in the next sections; I planned to use my Wacom tablet, but I still have to get it registered, which means I have to get some ID numbers off the back, which I can't make out. I've ordered another magnifying glass from Amazon, but it'll be a couple of weeks before it gets here.
I'm trying, folks. I really am...
