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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach upper level math and found that teaching and classes were not difficult.  [b]Creating the slides and doing problems out on the computer was really cumbersome.[/b]  [/quote]

How were creating the slides cumbersome?  Didn't you already have the slides?  I agree working out the problems on the computer is tricky. [/quote]

I don't know anyone in math who has prepared slides to use from "before."  We're all making them up.  In math it is a little more cumbersome because of all the special characters, exponents, etc.  Now there is an equation writer software to help write equations but there still are a lot of steps.  For example, with the equation writer software you can fractions so you don't type 3/4 (slanted fraction bar is NOT good) anymore but it still takes 6 or 7 steps to type 3/4 correctly, without a slanted fraction bar.

the only acceptable way to write a fraction is using a horizontal fraction bar
[u]3[/u]     not 3/4
4[/quote]

I teach calculus and do not have an iPad.  So I had to type out all of the steps to the problems and then film myself going through the problems.  It took a lot longer than I thought it would.  There were also discovery activities I do in class that I had to convert to an online format, and it didn't just involve taking the Word document and sharing the screen with students.

Also my slides for class are pretty bare and basic because I try to teach using other methods.  So I had to flesh out those bare bones slides because I had no efficient way to write on a screen.[/quote]

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