It doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses — finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is …
Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos
When I was a middle school and high school student, mathematics was the one subject for which I had to have visual demonstrations in order to comprehend its concepts. Unfortunately for me, when I was in high school I couldn’t …
Super Bowl XLIV Ads 2010
Television advertisements during the Super Bowl football game get a lot of hype, but we often don’t see the same Super Bowl ads in Canada as in the US. Every year, Canadian stations buy the rights to air the Super …
Videos: Avatar Earns 9 Oscar Noms — See How Cameron Created His Sci-Fi Epic
James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar has just been nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture. To date, the 3-D movie about a paraplegic ex-Marine who bonds with an alien culture has made more than 2 billion dollars worldwide, making it …
Video – I Need My Teachers to Learn
Kevin Honeycutt has recently released an updated version of his music video I Need My Teachers to Learn. It’s a nice little video about the importance of teachers being life-long learners who adapt their teaching methods to meet the needs …
What you watched and searched for on YouTube in 2009
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we’re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama’s inauguration), some small …
Need Math Help? Try Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …
How do you connect to people online? (the video)
Video with contributions from people around the world (but mostly from Canada and the U.S.) describing how we connect with each other. There is broad agreement that the most important thing (as Alan Levine says) is to find something that’s …