Oregon Online Tip of the Week 10/21:

This weeks tip of the week is the re-sizing of images or photos for email.  To show an example of what I mean here is a video that I uploaded to youtube.

youtube video on re-sizing images

On my computer I have Microsoft Office Picture Manager other photo editing programs will do the same thing it's just a matter of seeing what you have on your computer.  If you right click on a document it will give you a choice of programs to open up an image.  Some of them are just viewers others will allow you to edit images.

Another video that might help people out is a link to a video I created showing how to navigate in apex.

another video in youtube navigating in apex

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Oregon Online Tip of the week 10/14:

This week's tip of the week is online graphing calculators, such as: 

HRW-Graphing Calculator

I use this all the time either to check my work, answer keys, or students work.  Most of the time math such as algebra, geometry, algebra II, pre-calculus, and calculus all have different subjects that you need to graph such as the classic y=mx+b, quadratic equations (parabolas), or trig functions (i.e. y=sin(x), y=2cos(x), ...) it's nice to see what the graph looks like.  It's also nice that once you have it on the screen you can take a screen shot and send it out to students to see what the numbers really mean.  So the next time you have a problem that needs intersections, maximums, minimums, or roots look for a graphical picture.  It may not give you the correct answer but it will show you were you need to be looking for that answer.

The following image was created using word and the HRW-online calculator.

The above graph is for f(x)=3x² +2x-5.  

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Oregon Online Tip of the Week 10/6

Sometime this weekend you will receive a progress report from me.

This progress report is generated from your grades and an excel spreadsheet that I have made for each class.  One of the things I will do is take the progress that you have done now and map out what you need to do the rest of the semester in terms of when things should get done.

The rate at which you complete assignments is dependent on what you have done so far.  Some of you have just been added so you will have to do things faster in order to get done before the end of the semester.  This doesn't mean that due dates are set in stone they give you guidelines to follow (kind of like a pirate code)

Anyway in order to understand my progress report I created a video explaining the different parts of the report.

Video On Showme.com

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