Saturday, August 28, 2021

Welcome MAT122 Fall 2021!

 

(My High School Class Room Circa 2020)

MAT122 Week Zero Update: Setting Up!

Dear Students,

I can't wait to meet you all on Wednesday September 1st to start our Calculus I class during this upcoming Fall Semester! Don't forget we meet Wednesdays-Fridays from 9/1/2021 to 12/22/2021 for 1 hour and 15 minutes. On Wednesdays and Fridays we meet at 11am. On Thursdays we meet at 10am.


My Blackboard site is almost ready but Nassau Community College (NCC) is not allowing access until Wednesday 9/1/2021. So, I thought I'd give you a few pointers ahead of time:


1) SYLLABUS

Please download the SYLLABUS from BlackBoard, read it carefully and pay very close attention to: 

Page 1: 

Math Learning Center Zoom link

Page 5: 

Required Textbook

Page 5: 

Student Responsibilities

Page 6: 

Academic Dishonesty Policy

Page 7: 

Copyright Statement, Assessments and Americans with Disabilities Statement

Page 8: 

Return to Campus Expectations & Guidelines

Pages 9-13: 

ClassWork, HomeWork Assignments and Exams


2) WELCOMEBIO

Please download the WELCOMEBIO from BlackBoard, fill it out and return to me via college email ASAP. My email address is listed in the SYLLABUS.



3) HARDWARE

We will be using the TI83/84 series of Graphing Calculators. If you are already familiar with another calculator series such as TI85/86 or TI89/92, please feel free to use what works best for you. Also, please make sure you have a second device during class and tests, such as a tablet or ChromeBook, for viewing our lectures via Zoom. 

 

I typically have 3 Chromebooks running during class: one for zoom lectures, a second one to monitor the zoom session and another one to read my notes and lesson plans. You may be able to get by with multiple tabs on one device. Please feel free to make your own choice. Pick whatever works best for you!




4) Kaltura

You will find several screencasts of our lessons in each of the 5 units on our BlackBoard. These screencasts are hosted on the college's Kaltura cloud service which is much like a private YouTube server just for NCC students and professors. See a sample recording above. I recorded these videos LIVE in 2010 with a TI83 and I rerecorded these videos as SHORT summaries after class in 2018 with a TI84C. You are responsible for all the material covered in all the screencasts posted on our Blackboard site.


5) SOFTWARE

In addition to Zoom, Blackboard, and Kaltura, I will be using the CAMScanner and Squid apps and recommend you use them too. I'm using AndroidOS, but these apps, or something similar, should be available for iOS as well.

 

Squid is great for taking notes on a tablet or writing your solutions on a pdf such as a test using a tablet and a stylus. The free version of Squid is great, but you need to pay a monthly fee or a one time lifetime fee for pdf markup. I also paid a fee for the geometry tab which makes drawing diagrams with your stylus easier! The monthly fee is not much if you only want to use Squid for a few months. I paid the lifetime fee instead for a couple of extra features as I use this app all the time but I don't need the entire feature set.

 

CAMScanner is great for converting handwritten work to pdf format so you can email your Exams to me. 

 

Typically during my Zoom lecture I will be sharing notes with you using Squid and a TI84C Emulator.

 

6) EXAMS

When you take an exam, you have a choice. You can download and print the test so you can complete it with pencil and paper in a more traditional manner. Then you can use CAMScanner to convert your handwritten work to a pdf and email your test back to me. 


Alternatively, you can download the test onto your tablet, markup the pdf with your solutions using Squid and just email the new pdf with your work. Again, please feel free to make your own choice. Pick whatever works best for you!


That's it for now. I hope you find this note is helpful and I hope that you will learn a lot this semester in my class!

 

Sincerely,

A. Jorge Garcia

Applied Math & CS

Nassau Community College

http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com

https://www.patreon.com/calcpage2020


Well, that's all folks.


Teaching With Technology,
A. Jorge Garcia

 
Applied Math, Physics and CS

Please support my classroom:
www.patreon.com/calcpage2020

www.youtube.com/calcpage2009

calcpage.redbubble.com

society6.com/calcpage



2015 NYS Secondary Math PAEMST Nominee


Teaching with Technology, 
pastebin youtube slideshare 

(IDEs & Code)
MATH 4H, AP CALC, CSH: SAGECELL
(Curriculae)
CSH: CodeHS
APCSA: Big Java
APCSA: CSAwesome

RECOMMENDED AP COMPSCI REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (given during exam)
REVIEW BARRONS BOOK (see me)
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE 
REVIEW APCENTRAL (past FRQs)
REVIEW EDX REVIEW MOOC01 
REVIEW UDEMY REVIEW MOOC02 
REVIEW CODING_BAT 
REVIEW PRACTICE_IT 
REVIEW RUNESTONE 
AUDIT CS50

RECOMMENDED AP CALCULUS REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (not given during exam) 
REVIEW BARRONS BOOK (see me)
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE 
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest AB FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest BC FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older AB FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older BC FRQs)
REVIEW EDX MOOC01 
REVIEW COURSERA MOOC02

XTRA CREDIT FILKS RUBRIC 
(1 video = up to 5 bonus points):
1) Use a recognizable tune.
2) Karaoke entire song changing up the words (about STEAM).
3) You are Singing, Dancing or Playing an instrument.
4) You upload your video to YouTube and provide the url.
5) YouTube Description includes the lyrics.

XTRA CREDIT ARTICLES RUBRIC
(up to 5 articles = 1 bonus point each):
1) Cover Sheet is a Summary of the article.
2) FullPage, 12 pt, DoubleSpaced, 1" Margin.
3) Article has to be STEAM related
4) Article has to be a current event.
5) Copy of entire article is attached.

NOTE TO READER:
In recent years our independent study class has been about the care and feeding of Linux Clusters: How to Build A Cluster, How To Program A Cluster and What Can We Do With A Cluster? 

BTW, Shadowfax is the name of the cluster we build! FYI, we offer 4 computing courses: 

CSH: Computer Science Honors with an introduction to coding in Python using SAGE, IDLE, VIDLE and Trinket

CSA: AP Computer Science A using CS50, this IDE and this IDE and OpenProcessing

CSI: Computing Science Independent Study using OpenMPI and 

CSL: Computing Science Lab which is a co-requisite for Calculus students using Computer Algebra Systems such as SAGE.

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