Comments on: How can video lectures help? http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/how-video-lectures-help/ Interviews with algebra teachers. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Celina Macaisa http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/how-video-lectures-help/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Celina Macaisa Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:40:37 +0000 http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/?p=58#comment-31 "I hired a former student to capture my entire semester of lecture notes for both pre and beginning algebra and decided to make them available to students." Taking notes for students? Isn't this a bit too much? Isn't it better they learn the skill on how to digest lots of information that come their way? There is also an app called MySpeed from enounce that can help your class. It can speed up video lectures for those already good in math and slow down lectures for those who haven't grasped the math concepts yet. At least with this program, students are still responsible for managing the information---no spoonfeeding but just self-directed learning and less stress on the teacher to speak at a certain pace. “I hired a former student to capture my entire semester of lecture notes for both pre and beginning algebra and decided to make them available to students.”

Taking notes for students? Isn’t this a bit too much? Isn’t it better they learn the skill on how to digest lots of information that come their way? There is also an app called MySpeed from enounce that can help your class. It can speed up video lectures for those already good in math and slow down lectures for those who haven’t grasped the math concepts yet. At least with this program, students are still responsible for managing the information—no spoonfeeding but just self-directed learning and less stress on the teacher to speak at a certain pace.

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