Course: Honors Linear Algebra II
Instructor: Leonardo T. Rolla, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Students Enrolled: 35
Technology Used: VoiceThread (VT), Gradescope, Google Forms, NYU Stream
One week before the first day of class, I experimented with an audio/video software program called VoiceThread (VT) with my students. I first shared a VT where I walked the students through the syllabus and they made their comments and questions. Then I shared another VT whose purpose was for me and each of the students to introduce ourselves.
The last VT before the beginning of classes was one where I asked students to solve an exercise from Honors Linear Algebra I which most of them completed in the Fall 2019. I produced three sample video presentations they might want to use: capturing a video of a piece of blank white paper while I wrote a mathematical proof; capturing the same piece of paper with the proof previously written, just explaining the proof with a pointer (my finger or a pen); and using NYU Stream to record the screen of my tablet while I used effective software for handwriting. Finally, I shared the process of how I had created my videos so they would have at least one concrete technique on how to create their own videos (I also provided them flexibility to create videos in formats that they were already using).
