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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]I don't know anyone in math who has prepared slides to use from "before." [/b] 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
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Why wouldn’t anyone in math have slides to use from “before”?[/quote][b]That's not how my classroom runs.  I don't have PowerPoint slides except for my objective, essential question and day's agenda. [/b] In F2F I usually have a discovery activity, and students use an activity sheet to record their discoveries, then for classwork either I am writing on the board or using the document camera.  Students do independent work and that work is shown on the document camera.  To translate that from F2F into DL, I am doing a guided release that involves PowerPoint to walk students through the discovery and act as a doublecheck, with videotapes of me interspersed throughout the lesson.[/quote]

Interesting. I don’t even have a whiteboard in my classroom. All I have is a smart board. I’m curious, how do your students get notes?  Do you give your students handouts of notes or study guides?  If your students receive some types of notes from you, don’t you have copies of these that you created for yourself as either a slide or document?  [/quote]

Maybe the students take their own notes. [/quote]

[b]I teach middle school.  I don't have notes handouts.  I have discovery or activity sheets, graphic organizers, warm-ups and exit tickets.  Students are responsible for responding to the prompts, completing the discovery activity and documenting by writing on the discovery and/or activity sheets, and/or completing the graphic organizer as I demonstrate on the white board and/or the document camera.  Obviously the warm-ups and exit tickets must be completely student work so no notes there.  [/b][/quote]

Not to derail the thread, but if the students don't have notes, how do they study for tests?  Unless the graphic organizers are basically a form of notes. [/quote]

?[b]??  I'm not sure I understand the question.  They use their activity sheets, warm-ups, graphic organizers and exit tickets when they study for tests.  And obviously they don't do a graphic organizer (think KWL, Venn Diagram or Frayer Model) every day, maybe once a week or once every two weeks.[/b][/quote]

I'm sorry, I don't mean for it to sound as if I am criticizing your techniques.  I'm just honestly curious to see differences in how other teachers do things.  I'm guessing you teach a higher grade than I do.  I teach 7th grade, and with my kids it seems as if they need the material really laid out for them in order to prepare for the tests.  Trying to get them to keep their binders organized is a huge challenge, most of the time they don't even hold on to their warm ups, worksheets, etc.  I also teach Title 1, so that could be a factor as well. [/quote]

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