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Podcast Project
Your podcast (vodcast, as it will contain video) will be a screencast that you will create to review a topic or topics learned in class this year. It should look just like a lesson you would teach, giving "students" notes, formulas, and/or examples to explain your topic.

For some examples from last year, see Student Projects page of this wiki.

This year's topics are:
 * 1) Volumes of Solids of Revolution - Disc and Washer Method (at least one horizontal axis of revolution and one vertical axis of revolution) - Danyell, Sasha, Brittany
 * 2) Volumes of Solids of Revolution - Shell Method (at least one horizontal axis of revolution and one vertical axis of revolution) - Annie, Gina, and Maggie
 * 3) Volumes of Solids with Known Cross Sections (at least one where cross-sections are perpendicular to x-axis and one where they are perp. to the y-axis)
 * 4) (Ben Taylor Dylan's) Slope Fields/ solving differential equations
 * 5) Trapezoidal Rule, Simpson's Rule, Riemann sums (left endpoint, midpoint, right endpoint, upper, lower) - you should try to use a combination of functions, graphs, and tables in your examples (Jesse, mike, chris, and hamfoot)

The following is your rubric that will be used to grade your project:

You will want to have accounts at the following websites: Screencast-o-matic - this is what you will use to record your podcast. (There are many other sites you can check out if you want. This one is my favorite.) Podbean - we have a channel - @http://mhapich.podbean.com/ - where you will upload your podcast. You can subscribe to this channel in iTunes. Wikispaces (to join this wiki, then join this wiki!) You may also want an account on [|Google Docs] to work collaboratively on this project (to create your "script", etc.).

Survey
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Whiteboards
You may use one of these whiteboards on which to work out your problems. (If you find a better one, by all means ... add it!) There are some features of each site listed after its link, but you should check out each one to determine your own personal preference.

Scriblink Dabbleboard Twiddla Scribblar Cosketch
 * Up to 6 people can join this whiteboard together.
 * You do not create an account here.
 * It has the Sitmo equation editor!
 * You can only have one page to write on. The only way to get a new page is to clear everything that is on it.
 * You can save, print, or send the final page of your board.
 * You don't HAVE to create an account here, but if you do, you can copy drawings from their toolkits, and add them to your personal library.
 * You can add pages to this one!
 * You can insert a document - for example, a worksheet with problems on it - and then write over top of the document.
 * If you click on the T for text when you start to type, you will find a Math option. This contains a limited number of symbols (like an integral sign, summation, etc.) for you to use.
 * You can download a picture of your work to your computer.
 * You can embed this as an image or a widget into a webpage.
 * You don't need to sign up for an account here.
 * You can't add an extra page here, but I have made the page longer by inserting a document
 * This also has the Sitmo equation editor!
 * You can embed a widget into this page!
 * You can save a snapshot of the current screen as a png to your computer.
 * For this one, you MUST create an account
 * You can create a room, and go back to that room later.
 * You can embed a "link" to your room on our wiki. (You can supposedly also embed the room itself, but that did not work for me).
 * You can create multiple pages in your room!
 * This has a lot of nice options, but an equation editor is not one of them. =(
 * No sign up.
 * Only one page.
 * No equation editor.
 * Pretty limited in some aspects, but neat things the others don't have:
 * a library of images for electronics and mechanics
 * easy to upload Google maps

Equation Editor
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Screencasting
Go to [|Screencast-o-matic].

Collaborate
Need to collaborate with classmates? Want to work together on problems??

Go to [|Scriblink] - an interactive whiteboard!

Facebook Template:
This is a Microsoft Publisher file. You can open this and save it to your y: drive, or feel free to make your own, either in Publisher or Word. Have fun!!!

Another option is to use this powerpoint example for your template: 2011 Directions: