PD DAY MATH DEPARTMENT MEETING December 10, 2015

AGENDA Topics of Discussion: 1. Student Survey Results – Any surprises 2. Course Evaluation  Example found in the Commons 3. Desmos Graphing Calculator  Sliders  Visually appealing, can give the axes a title  Animate graphs to investigate effects on parent function  Save and share work through google drive  Discussion: What are the pros/cons versus the class set of graphing calculators? 4. Geogebra 5. Department Sharing What as a department would you like to learn? 6. By popular request…..common planning time for ideas/sharing/brainstorming with Canvas/Chromebooks

GOOGLE DOCS  Google doc versus Microsoft Word  How do you share using google docs?  With Google Docs, you can write, edit, and collaborate wherever you are.  If you get a shared folder from someone, you should draw it from the SHARED folder to your MY DRIVE folder. Take the whole folder and don’t take files.  Sharing:  With students you want shareable link, so they can view it and not edit it.  In Canvas, you need to select link within Rich Text Format box.  If you want students to edit it