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TeX Inventor on GoogleTalks
Donald Knuth is known as the inventor of TeX (among other things). A visit to his website is interesting (be sure to check out Knuth vs email since 1990). Most of the talk is about Knuth’s book 3:16...
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History of Tools in the Teaching of Math
Somewhere around hour #28 of dissertation research, I began looking for the answer to this question: Anyone know a resource where someone has documented a timeline of math technologies for teaching or...
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Ctrl-E Hotkeys for MathType in Office 2007
You may recall that I took the Office 2007 plunge over a year ago and gave up after a month because it wasn’t compatible with Adobe Acrobat 8. Well, it’s a year later and (in preparation to install...
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Getting Math in Moodle is Easy
Very rarely do learning management systems (Blackboard, Angel, D2L, etc.) do math well. However this is definitely the exception. Personally, I use Moodle as an LMS on TeachingCollegeMath to host...
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eLearning Tools for STEM
For anyone who has ever had trouble convincing your administration to give you the proper tools to teach online, I give you this little gift: eLearning Tools for STEM, published today in eLearning...
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Open and Close MathType Equations Quickly
Just in case some of you have made the migration to Office 2010 over the summer (I bit the bullet last week) … here’s an update to making the Ctrl-E hotkeys to open and close MathType without lifting...
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Navigating WolframAlpha Pro Features
Last week I had to do a workshop about WolframAlpha, and I noticed that there are three different feature sets: not logged in, logged in, logged in to Pro. I needed to know which login settings...
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Tips for the Equation Editor in Instructure Canvas
I’ve been banging on Instructure Canvas for a week now, and I have to say that I’m incredibly impressed in general. I don’t think I’ve ever said anything nice about a Learning Management System (LMS),...
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Tutorials on the Instructure Canvas Equation Editor
At the Phoenix College Math & Technology Workshop last week, we learned how easy it was to use the Canvas Equation Editor, but you might not believe us (and sometimes students are hesitant to try)....
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Aligning Inline Equations Vertically in Instructure Canvas
When you use the Canvas equation editor to insert an equation surrounded by text, you may be wishing there was some way to align the equations in the middle vertically, instead of on the bottom (the...
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