The Web Site

The web assignment was extremely time consuming as most of my information was algebraic in nature. Using equation editor was tedious and impossible to format perfectly. Also the equations which appear as objects in the document become gradually offset and begin to gradually cover the words on the page more and more.  The original document is a mess of formatting but the final result is good.  The way the website is set up is for students to look at a common problem over the course of a chapter.  For an evaluation I chose for the students to tweak the site and use a different problem and solve it in each of the same ways the website does.  This could be easily adapted to future chapters with a different or the same common problem.  Instead of the teacher making future sites the students would need to create them as projects or extended learning assignments.

Systems of Equations Website
Evaluation
Evaluation

I found the new version of windows movie maker to be less easy to use than the older verion on windows XP. There was no option to see the movie in a time mode which made it impossible to stretch clips out and increase their duration. With the proper training and materials students could easily be given assignments where instead of a report or project the end product could be a movie. I invision such an assignment being like a google docs assignment where each student or student group would be given a section of a chapter on which to produce a movie clip. Each clip could then be watched in sequence to create a complete overview of the chapter.

Movie