What is a mathcast?
December 2nd, 2007 | by TimFahlberg |Good question!
Mathcasts are screencasts (screen movies) of writing with voice that focus on mathematics. It’s easier to understand what mathcasts are all about if you experience one or more of them:
Here’s a mathcast by Colleen King, math teacher and creator of Math Playground?. It’s part of the K-7 Mathcasts 500 Project (500+ mathcasts for Kindergarten - 7th grade math) on our Math247 wiki.
This mathcast was created using VoiceThread, a graphics tablet, and a microphone.
A huge thank you goes to Sol Lederman of Wild About Math! (a great blog for math enthusiasts and would-be math enthusiasts) for blogging about mathcasts, honoring my long work in this area, and for sharing how to embed VoiceThreads in WordPress blogs (see the plug-in for Voicethread which is here. Sol discovered it at this blog article: Getting Voicethread and Wordpress to play nicely).
3 Responses to “What is a mathcast?”
By Patty O'Flynn on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply
Hi Tim! Kash and I have been working on our mathcast project this year, and I’m excited to tell you that I’ll be teaching an online math course next year (either Pre Calculus or Algebra 2) and will be delivering lessons via mathcasts. Very exciting! I haven’t used VoiceThread yet for our mathcasts but will have to try it out.
By TimFahlberg on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply
That’s great Patty!
FYI: Patty and Kash are at the forefront of the mathcast field having received a $10,000 Qwest grant specifically to help get their students mathcasting in a big way.
You can visit Patty’s school website (which has links to MANY student mathcasts here: http://www.woodlandschools.org/index.php?q=node/741
I also just added Patty’s blog (Patty Papers) to our blogroll.
Thanks Patty for writing! — Tim
By Julie on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
You’re doing great things! I’m using mathcasts (otherwise titled whiteboard movies) and voicethread with my Algebra 2 students whom I teach via an online public high school. Really great to get them interacting this way. I’ve got a class ed account of voicethread and am encouraging my students to do online collaboration as well as comment or participate with my presented voicethreads!