Good afternoon everyone. We are happy that you are able to join us for our EquatIO webinar
this afternoon. We will make a couple of brief introductions here. Greg, do you want to kick
things off? Aboslutely. Yeah, Hi Everyone, Greg Crisolo
here, I'm the Territory Director here with Texthelp. I do see some familiar names who
have registered, who have already signed into the webinar, so thanks for being here.
So my role with Texthelp now, I have over a decade of experience supporting K-12 and
Higher Education in the Western United States. I am fairly new to Texthelp, but my experience
and then, my passion is with state policy mandates, Special Education, I'm sure , software,
high stakes assessment, data interpretation in English, Math, Reading and Science, and
in STEM education consulting and training. So, the webinar that we have today, which
some of you received the invitation, is a sort of a follow up from CMC-South, with some
folks that we had dinner with there. And so, but it's obviously open to anybody and everybody
who we want to just kind of show a demo on this free for teachers portion of it, and
then have a class of students, and how that applies to even higher education as well.
So that's why Nora's going to be here to support that.
So, the chat window on the right there , I think you can see that, I hope you saw my
chat. I just want to make sure that everybody can see everything and it looks like we're
kind of good to go. We'll start right on time here.
Nora, you want to take it away? Excellent.I'm Nora Trentacoste, I'm the Regional
Director here at Texthelp. And what we do at Texthelp is we help students read and respond
to content. We know that there's been kind of, like a missing link, as far as tech and
math instruction, so we're really excited to be able to come to you with EquatIO. I
am thrilled to have Greg on my team, somebody with a little deeper math background than
I. I'm kind of more of an ELL, Language Arts, Special Ed kinda gal, but I will be demonstrating
EquatIO for you guys. I want to make sure that you know it is free for teachers, so
hopefully some of you got a chance to download the tools already. If you did, we'll have
a few periods where we'll actually be able to collaborate on some documents together,
and you can explore with me. If you didn't get a chance to do that, you'll
be able to just kind of view along with us, but if you did download the tools, you'll
be able to help there as well. We have a couple of polls we'll be asking
and then we'll have some time for you to ask questions as well. We'll stop regularly to
answer questions from the chat window. Greg- do you want to launch that first poll so we
can kind of get a feel for who is joining us?
(pause for participants to complete the poll) Alright....So...just kind of finding out who
is with us. Looks like we've got a lot of tech folks and some people that are in the
math classroom. Alright, we'll give it just another minute or two. ....and we'll go ahead
and close that poll. Looks like we are pretty evenly divided between folks that are more
on the tech side and the math side. So hopefully, we'll be able to sort of plan our time together.
I don't know how much you folks are talking about Universal Design for Learning in your
districts, but I just wanted to kind of give you some basic, basic information on Universal
Design for Learning. I think all of us know that many things that are best practices for
specific students wind up being best practices for all of our students. If you're not familiar
with UDL, there's lots to learn, and I have a link here in the slides that we'll be sharing
with you, so you will be able to access that. But Universal Design for Learning is a sort
of a methodology making sure that, you know, whats good for students that may have particular
challenges is actually good for everybody. And of course, multiple representations are
something that we talk about all the time in math. How many different ways can we slice
and dice the content so that students can really understand the concept. As far as multiple
engagement, that's a little bit more difficult sometimes with math, because in some areas,
we've been able to use technology pretty efficiently with collaboration, and all of those wonderful,
sort of more reading based technologies, and it's been something we've been missing out
with for quite some time in math. And then multiple expressions is -how many ways can
your students show you and demonstrate what they know. All of our tools at Texthelp are
built around a sort of a framework of Universal Design for Learning, and we take all of those
things into account. But one of the things that we really excel at is this multiple expression;
giving your students lots of different ways to show you what they can do. So we'll be
talking about the tools, but kind of keep that in mind as we talk about it. So, thinking
about Universal Design for Learning and how the tools can actually help your students
to demonstrate their knowledge. We have a tool here - the screenshot reader- that will
actually allow them access to content that may be just on the screen, but they'll be
able to interact with it. And then using these tools to really get access to standards and
use some higher order thinking to demonstrate what they know. So we'll be addressing all
of those things as we go through the toolbars. Thinking about ways that you can use EquatIO
to support your students, we want all of the students to have equitable access to learning.
So EquatIO works in lots of different places. So we'll be focusing today on the Google component,
but there is also a component for Microsoft Word, and there is also an integration with
the Canvas LMS. So, the Google piece works in docs, it works in slides, it works in forms,
it works in sheets, and , in conjunction with our reading program, Read&Write for Google
Chrome, can also work with PDFs. So if you do have some PDF based content, and you want
to be able to bring that into Google Drive in an interactive way, we can do that as well.
So, why are we doing what we're doing? We know that there's issues with math instruction.
We know that there's a large percentage of students that score below proficient in math.
I'm sure each one of you is in a district that has focused goals on how you want to
reach those students that aren't quite where they need to be in math. And that's something
that we want to do as well. So- a little bit about the history of EquatIO.
EquatIO was created by a math teacher, for math teachers. John McGowan was teaching in
a number of private schools and international schools, and most of these schools had quite
a bit of technology. And what he found was that in his math class, he was unable to use
the chromebooks and the macbooks that were commonly used in all the other classes. And
it felt really bad for him to have the students come into math class and for him to say---"Well,
it's math class, so I want you to put your technology under the chair and we'll use pencil
and paper now" So he knew that students were missing out
on the collaboration, he knew they were missing out on all the benefits that technology could
offer, and he wanted to find a way to bring, to make math digital, to bring it into those
devices. So, several benefits: really, I think what
was driving him is he wanted to encourage that collaboration and discussion, but once
you get into the technology realm, its much easier to create those multiple representations,
and he wanted to close the feedback loop, so that he could see what the students were
doing more quickly and easily. And just to have that feedback loop a little bit tightened
up, so that students would hear from him shortly after doing what he was doing.
John McGowan created a program called g(math), it was a Google app, and, bless his heart-
he was teaching full time and created this program. He told me he would getup at 3 in
the morning and work on gMath from 3 to 6 AM and then go teach a full day. And it was
really just more than one guy could handle. So we're really pleased that he decided to
come on board with us, and we've been able to build from gMath being a little app into
EquatIO being a big, beautiful extension. So gMath is kind of the grandfather of EquatIO.
Part of the pain for John McGowan was, and it might be similar for all of you, was creating
math content was not fun and easy to do. So I'm guessing for many of you, these interfaces
are probably sadly familiar. They're not super fun too work with, whether it's MathType,
MS equation editor, it's pretty time consuming to create digital math content this way. So
what John McGowan started doing was actually working with LateX. And so what gMath, and
now EquatIO do is make it very easy for you to write solid math content that's backed
up with LaTeX, so that it can be read out loud on a number of different devices, and
we want that to integrate seamlessly with our Read&Write program. (video speaking...Y..2
squared ..x minus three equals minus 9). So you can see that anything we create with the
EquatIO tools can be read aloud by other tools. So not only can you create, but you can express
that math. So really we wanted to create a loop where you can think about the underlying
math concept, but also make sure that you're giving, you're exposing students to the math
terminology, and the math notation as well as hearing it. I'm sure all of you have a
significant number of English Language Learners who many need an extra support in one of those
areas. So we really want to bring all of those things together.
So we talked about this a little bit. We have EquatIO for Google that we're going to focus
on today, we also have EquatIO for Windows and Mac, and that's included in the same license.
Also included in the same licensing is EquatIO mathspace, which is more of a sort of visual
place that you can go to work with our tools. And then if any of you are going beyond just
using Google Classroom and you have a learning management system, we now have a plug in that
works inside the Canvas LMS. And those are all included in that one single license for
EquatIO. So.Greg do you want to launch the next poll
and we'll try to get a feel for whether our kind of , what some of the challenges are
that our participants are encountering as far as delivering math instruction, especially
digitally? (pause while poll completes)
Let's see if we can ...Ok...let's see what we're seeing here from the poll...Ok. Alright.
So we'll see if we can address some of those things for you, and before we get started,
do we have any questions? We'll just take a moment to make sure. We're not a super large
group today but I just want to make sure if there's anything any of you in particular
really wanted to see or know about, we'll give you a moment to ask some questions.
Alright.We will check back and make sure. In case any of you haven't downloaded EquatIO,
the instructions to download EquatIO are here. You can download it directly from the Chrome
WebStore or from our website, and that would be a 30 day trial. But I just wanted to remind
you that EquatIO is free for educators. So as long as you register with us for free educator
access, you will be able to use the full premium version of these tools on indefinitely into
the future. I just wanted to point out if you're not used to using Google extensions,
you just want to make sure that you are using the Chrome browser, and that you are logged
into the browser this is where you'd be logged into the browser. And this is where you'd
be logged into your Google Drive.Just make sure those two things match, and that you're
not logged in as, you know, 'noraiscool at gmail' up here and 'nora at texthelp' down
here. And we've got some directions for you to download those. Everything that I'm sharing
with you, you can definitely feel free to share with your colleagues.
But we will go ahead and kind of jump into a demonstration of EquatIO for Google then.
And I just want to remind you that it works EXACTLY the same on a mac, pc, or chromebook,
so because it works through the Chrome browser. I am coming to you from a PC in the Chrome
browser, but it would look exactly the same for your students on a Chromebook.
So what I've done here is I have created a practice doc so if you take this link right
here...I will just drop that link into the chat window. So if you click on that link
there, you will join in with me, that link would be bit.ly/CMC-Stry18....let's see here...and
if you actually click on that link, or you take it from the chat window, you will actually
be directed to a document that is shared with all of you. So if any of you have the tools
and you want to join me over here and explore, you can. And here is the document. I'm going
to demonstrate for you in this blue area, but if any of you want to join in with me,
just put your name over here. Choose one of the grey or white lines, put your name over
here in the first column , and then in the second column you'll be able to follow along
in. oh- I see some of you joining me....that's
great. OK. So up here at the top -i can see some
of you in here- let's go ahead and pick yourself one of these grey and white lines. And stake
your claim---put your name over here in the first column, and then you can write over
here in the second column. I'm going to be demonstrating for you here. So you can see
that our reading tools are up here at the top. I'll go ahead and hide those since we're
going to do math. And then if you want to launch EquatiO, you'll find EquatIO up here
in your toolbar. i'm going to go ahead and press the little blue triangle for EquatIO,
er, the diamond for EquatIO. And you're going to see EquatIO appear down here in the bottom.
So what I'm going to do, is I'm just going to kind of go across thetoolbar, and we will
explore and experiment with some of the different tools in EquatIO. And I'll stop to make sure
that you have a chance to ask questions as we go.
So we'll start with our first method of input, and that's our equation editor. And that's
significantly easier to use than what you might be used to with either Microsoft or
MathType or some other programs. I like to think of it as word prediction for math. Very
similar to when you're texting on your phone, and it makes suggestions for you.
So I'll start with something very simple. I I said like...2 x and then I type in 'sq'
you can see it's going to give me a number of different options. So I can choose square,
square root, or square, or...here's where having those ELs make come in...if you have
a funky old fashioned textbook that says 'scroot' instead of spelling out 'square root' that
would be very confusing for an English Language Learner. Now you've got a word that's pronounced
differently from the way it's typed on the page, and then you have to connect that up
to the notation, so we're trying to give your students lots of options to connect with the
content. So i'm going to say....2...x...times the square root of three, then I'm going to
use the shift button and go all the way up and select 'equals' from the top...and this
won't be very interesting, I'll just say 34, and then what I can do is I can go ahead and
insert that math into the document. You'll see it's saying 'insert image' and what it's
doing is it's inserting an image that people can see of the math, but what's behind the
image is the LaTeX code. So if I go to the next icon here, and switch to LaTeX, you can
see this is the actual LaTeX code behind the equatIion. So we inserted both a picture and
the code behind it, so that the computer can see what it says. So you really can almost
in terms of multiple representation, just move across the slider and look at all the
different ways that you might want to create math. So I'll go ahead and just put my cursor
back here, and tab down so we can make some new math. I'm going to go ahead and delete
this...and let;s start back over here and think again about some of the things that
we might want to do with the equation editor. So not very much fun to type in complex equations,
so I'm going to type in 'qu' and you're going to see my suggestions include quarter, quantity.
quadratic formula, quotient of powers, quotient rule, quotient rule 2, ..
I'm just going to pick the quadratic formula, and instead of having to type I was able to
just pull it right off that list. And maybe I know what some of the variables are, so
I'm going to change the b's to 5's in the window right here, which is definitely easier
than having to type all of that. And then I'm going to hit 'insert math' and again,
it's going to go right there into the document. I just wanted to demonstrate that with the
program, in conjunction with Read&Write, you can actually have your instructions read out
loud, as well as your equations. So I'm going to press the button, and you should hear our
reading program actually read these equations out loud. (speaking--- math math with EquatIO
here...2 x the square root of 3 equals 34. ..= the fraction with the numerator negative
5 x plus or minus the square root of 5 squared minus 4 ac and the denominator 2 a" ) So you
kind of get an idea of how that works. So i'm going to go ahead and stop the speaking
and we can see more math. Can you see how that works ....I'm going to go ahead and get
rid of this. And we know there are students who maybe need
to show you multi line equations, and you can see we're actually making a suggestion
for you....you can press shift and enter to move to a new line. So if I wanted to say
"2x plus 1 equals 13" and I do shift and enter, you can see that it's going to go down to
the next line and it's going to right justify. So now I can say " 2x equals --and I'm going
to do this wrong---14" and then I'm going to shift and enter and then I'm going to say
"x equals 7" right?So you'd be able to actually see, rather than just having to have a multiple
choice kind of thing, you'd actually be able to see the student's process and go back and
reteach as you need to. I'm going to use this equation several times so you can kind of
see the different ways that we could sort of demonstrate whats happening like that.
But you kind of get the idea that there's lots that you can do here. I don't know if
any of you are also teaching chemistry, but I wanted to point out that if you go into
your settings right here in your options, you have math options, you can change the
font size, the language, whether or not you want to see the tips ( like shift and enter)
...If you just leave the math on and you turn of the chemistry and the formulas, that's
appropriate for primary students. We don't want primary students getting suggestions
about ---for the quadratic formula yet. So if you want to turn those kind of things off,
likewise if you want to turn off the chemistry. I just wanted to show you ---if you wanted
to enter content over here....I'm going to go ahead and just look for things about aluminum....so
i'm going to do a-l....so you can see we've got Aluminum Diacetate, so all of these chemical
formulas we can enter right into the text if we want to, and then have those read out
loud, right? So last thing I want to talk about is options
with the equation editor.The LaTeX then, just remember you can pull that LaTeX out. We do
have some folks who need to use LaTeX for other computer programs. You can use all these
really easy input methods, like the speech input, or the equation editor to create content
quickly and easily, and then you can just switch to the LaTeX and you can actually cut
and paste that wherever you need it. I thought I'd stop and take a moment to just ask questions...is
there anybody that has questions up to this point, or did you want to just keep on going?
(pause) OK. We will keep right on going. I'm going to go to the graph editor, and if any
of you people are using the Desmos program, then you already know how to use our graph
editor, because we partner with the folks at Desmos to provide this. Desmos is a wonderful,
wonderful ...they offer a graphing calculator, and it is actually on the CAASPP assessment,
as well as starting to be integrated into more high stakes assessments like the SATs
and the ACT. So let's look at how we can support students with some graphing. I'm going to
just type in something kind of simple here so we'll just do y --we still have the prediction---so
I'm going to do y equals ax squared, and then what's cool about Desmos, is you can actually
add content that you can change. So you can see what happens if I move the slider....right?
I can do that. So I'm going to go ahead and insert that right into my document.So this
could be something that you create for the student, it could also be something the students
create for you. so this is a two way street. If you wanted the student to interact with
this, they would click on it, and then select -edit math- and they'd be right back here
and could ---I'll go ahead and just change it so you can see that I changed it, and you'll
see it come back with the negative. There you go.
So, whatever you want to do over here, there's lots and lots you can do --if any of you want
to kind of explore with that, there's all kinds of great ideas there. And again, we
can go back here and pick up the underlying code behind that, we could see it over here...so
whatever we want to do, we'd be able to do that....it's pretty simple. We had a number
of updates today....so that may be what;s going on here....but we'll just get back to
where we're at.... and one of the updates today was a new icon
on our EquatIO toolbar! So I want to make sure that you guys get a chance to kind of
explore with that as well. So you've seen the equation editor, you've seen the LaTeX,
you've seen the graph editor. Let's look at another way for students to input content,
and that is with handwriting. So I can open up a handwriting screen here, and just to
kind of show you....I am actually on a touchscreen, but I am doing this with my mouse because
I wanted you to see that you do not have to have super precise control to make this work.
So I'm going to go back to that same equation, and we're going to say ...2 x plus 1 equals
13, and ...Alright...so that wasn't great entry on my part. I can actually just undo
just that one thing, and I can say 13, and you see I can fix that pretty quickly and
easily. Then I'm going to say- 2x equals 14...I know, I'm just doing this wrong, over and
over....and then I'm going to say x equals 7. And so now, I've got my 2....I don't like
that....I can actually go back here and just cross this out, and it will actually take
it out and give me another chance...to....lets see if we can do that....there we go. Now
can it read me?Yes it can. So I'm going to go ahead and insert that. I just wanted you
to see what happens if you make a couple of little mistakes, you still have a lot of options.
So that;s the handwriting. Can be super helpful, and I'll show you in a little bit what you
can do with EquatIO mobile, if you don't have a touchscreen, probably many of your students
have touchscreen devices, like smartphones. So we can actually harness that power and
help you with that. So that's the handwriting recognition. The next thing is speech input.
I'm actually going to be able to speak to the computer and have it take down what I
say. So I'm going to press the ..speech input...you're going to see the little red button here...I'm
going to say ..."hamburger hot dog ice cream 3 x squared divided by 23 equals 437" not
a very interesting equation, but I wanted you to see that it is still taking down everything
that I'm saying, and it's just ....and said and...so I got a plus sign there...it's only
taking down numbers and equals and ....so wanted you guys to get an idea....it's only
listening for the math stuff. So let me just go back in here and we'll do something simple.
3 quarters plus 2 fifths equals. so you kind of get an idea. It's pretty simple ....3 quarters
plus 2 fifths equals and we can go ahead and insert that into our document and have that
read out loud. So pretty simple. You'll want to have either a headset, probably to get
the best fidelity there, but pretty easy. So now you've seen we can use the prediction,
we can use the graph, we can use the handwriting, we can speak, but what happens if we don't
have a way to use that touchscreen or we have students that need that kind of more touchscreen
support. That's what EquatIO mobile is for. So I'm actually going to go to my smartphone,
and I'm going to actually take a picture for you now from my smart phone. And I am going
to use the EquatIO app, and what it's going to do is it's going to look in my Google Drive
for anything that I have open and I'm going right into this document and the first thing
that I'm going to do is I'm going to use the handwriting right on my phone. So I'm going
to select the handwriting icon, and you're going to see that I'm going to draw just a
simple fraction, and I've drawn that from my phone, and I'm going to save that as an
image. And what I scribed on my phone should appear any moment here in our document. So
you can see what I scribed on my phone now is right in the document. Now I could just
have it come in like that and a good example of when you might want to do that would be
maybe if you were doing geometry and you wanted to just actually show the angle. I'll go ahead
and do another one so you can see what that would look like...and there we go. Ok. But
what if I just wanted to see that old equation, and I wanted to hear it read back ,and do
...manipulate it and kind of do things with it? I can do that as well. So i'm going to
go back to that handwriting and I'll say " 3 x equals 27" and I can go ahead and put that
in as that scribed math, but I can also....I can do it as an image first ....and you'll
see that go in. And now, you're going to see that same thing, I'm going to scribe it, but
instead of having it go in there as an image, I'm actually going to have it go in there
as math. So my EquatIO is working with my phone in Google Drive to take that same scribble
that I just made and turn it into actual math. So that's one way we can do it. We could speak
to the phone and have it come out ...I'm going to show you another thing we can do that's
kind of awesome which is we can harness the power of the camera on my phone. So if you
have a student who is creating equations and they're on a piece of paper but you want to
get it into Google Drive, you can absolutely do that. So I'm going to actually take a picture
...you're going to see very clearly....this is my desk....and this is just a piece of
paper where I've written that same equation....and lets see....you're going to be able to tell
that that's just a photo. First I'm going to send it in as an image, so you'll see where
that content came from.....And....there's the image. But this could be a word problem
where the student wants to draw some pictures and kind of show you they formulated the equation,
that kind of thing. That might be a great time to go ahead and have them show you the
actual thing. But in this case, I'm going to take that same picture, and instead of
sending it as an image, I'm going to send it as math. So same thing, the computer's
actually going to ..or EquatIO's going to actually translate that into actual math.
and again, all of this can be read out loud. By Read&Write and any other program that reads
things out loud. So any questions up to this point? we'll take a minute. If you guys want
to ask questions in the chat window, you can. Then if you're ready we'll move on to today's
brand new feature! we have a new icon that's just appeared today that I can share with
you. So any questions? Allight----we'll keep checking.
And I wanted to share with you this exciting new feature, there's another component of
EquatIO, and it's called mathspace. And that's where we can do kind of visual things, it's
kind of like a digital whiteboard. So I'm going to go ahead and click...this is a new
icon that just appeared today...in the past you'd go to a separate place to interact with
mathspace, but now we can integrate what we call a math canvas, a piece of mathspace right
into our document. So I'm going to go ahead and click on mathspace ...and just so you
guys know, once you have mathspace set up, this will be automatic, but the first time
you open mathspace, you're going to need to set up a mathspace dashboard. So maybe I'll
show you mathspace first.....you go to...once you have EquatIO installed, you go to equat.io.....and
it's going to open up your mathspace dashboard. And you can create whatever you want over
here. It can be real simple stuff. Sometimes people forget that we may want to do some
of this kind of stuff for really young, beginning learners. and so you can see I created a kind
of pallette over here and the students would have to explain how they would...use these
shapes to make sense with the scale. So there's all kinds of things that we can do there,
but what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of re-create this factors of 12 inside my
google doc here. And remember this works for docs, works for slides, so we can do all kinds
of things inside our lessons. So I'm going to go ahead and insert a mathspace, and it's
going to open up a new mathspace for me. And it's going to give me the option of creating
something. So I'm going to write a little something ....so (typing) So I'm going to
go ahead and this is where I can insert that...those words in there. I'm going to makethat a little
bigger if I want to. And then I have all these different things at my command, but I'm going
to take these shapes, and I'm just going to take a circle and I'm going to copy it 12
times ....4, 5, 6, 7,8,9,10,11,12.....and I'm going to...cut this one. so they're all
the same size....nothing misleading going on there. I'm going to just jumble these around
so there's no ....visible pattern, right? and there we go.....and then what we're going
to do is we're going to click the insert button.....and this should go back to our document and actually
put that mathspace right in the document. So...show me in any ways you can how 3 divides
12.....So when the student is ready to interact, they;re going to click here and click ---edit
math--and it;s going to take them back to that mathspace, and there's lots of different
ways that they can demonstrate their knowledge in this. so maybe you might have one student
that would go in here and change the color of some of these......we'll make 3 of them
green, and leave 3 of them pink, and make 3 of them yellow....kind of that funny mint
green.....and then maybe we'll do the other three in...like a dark blue. So that might
be one way.. and another student might use the pen here and circle....3 and 3....and
it looks like we have 13, doesn't it? and so on....another student might actually write
an equation, they could speak it, they could write it, they could say.....3 times 4 equals
12 and then they'd share that back .....and that would actually go back into that document.
.....there we go. So now your students can actually show you. So this is how you can
kind of see more of that process than what you've had before. So I'll stop here ---do
you guys have any questions? OK.
Let's look at this piece, the screen shot reader. So everything that we've been doing
here we pretty much just been riffing on our own stuff and making our own content. But
we know that you might have textbooks with math in them, and they might be available
to you in a PDF format. So I've actually opened this textbook with our Read&Write for Google
Chrome tool. This will read the words very nicely. (reading text out loud) But when we
go to read ...it's not going to be very pretty (reading math wrong) So it's not really formulating
to read math. But EquatIO does, and you can see I have Read&Write up here on the top of
my PDF, and I have EquatIO down here at the bottom. What the screen shot reader will let
me do ....I'm going to click on that, and you'll see that I'm getting a little cross
hairs like this....and I just selected the text that I wanted and EquatIO is actually
scanning that and reading it for me ( computer reading math right) and if I press here under
'more options' I can edit that with EquatIO. So like we did before, we can change some
of these variables and we can go ahead and insert that ....that's going to go into our
document and then we can drag this over here as an answer. So what does it look like in
Google Sheets? And Google Forms? So. Yes, we have a Google form, that you'll get to
see. I didn't have anything specific for Google sheets but it pretty much looks the same.
Let me see if I can open a Google Sheet for you ...and then when you want to use it . you
just press that button here....and we've had some updates today....so that's why it's making
me sign in again....and just the same. so if I wanted to create ....I don't know.....let's
go ahead and put the quadratic equation in here....and insert.....there you go.....I
would definitely want to have like a bigger....a bigger font size if I was going to do something
like this. that's awfully small. But you guys get the idea... what makes the sheets really
interesting I think is actually using this in Google forms. So I am going to go ahead
and skip to a Google form. So you guys saw what it was like in docs, I'm going to go
ahead and skip to a Google form....because that's where the actions at. And I think you;re
most like to use it in sheets as a result of what you get from forms. So if you wanted
to create a quiz in the form of a Google form, your students would actually be able to respond
with EquatIO. For those of you who have access to EquatIO, you'll be able to try this form,
and fill it in with me. So I'm going to just type it in here in the chat window
for you so you guys still have the link. so it's bit.ly/tryEQ so go ahead and go to that
link....and I have a form here....that you can try. So here's that equation....again!
Your Read&Write could read this out loud if you needed that....and then if you have EquatIO,
you'll have the little EquatIO response button right here. So we're going to say solve for
x....2x plus 1 equals 13....and then we'll go right in here, and depending on how we
wanted to respond....we'll go ahead and do this with handwriting again and we'll say....2
x plus 1 equals 13 ...maybe your kids want to scribe this. Maybe they want to use the
prediction, I'm going to say 2 x equals 14.....and then i'm going to say x equals ...little bit
more there.....seven......and that came out n.....so let's get rid of that....let's do
seven.....and let;s get rid of this too....we'll do 14. alright. So we like that.....we'll
go ahead and insert that and that's going to be our answer. And then I wanted you to
think a little bit out of the box about how you might use the graphing. We know that in
the standards, we're asking students not just to demonstrate the answer, but to explain
how they got there. So we're asking the students to go ahead and create a graph for y equals
ax squared....and use the slider on the graph to explore a negative variable and a positive
variable, and then tell us verbally what they observed. So we could go ahead and have the
students do that....so let's go ahead and .....clear this out. let's get rid of that....and
we'll go to here...we'll say y equals ax squared, and we'll add that slider for a....and we'll
just explore.....ok that's a positive integer....that's a negative integer.....hmm. OK. I think I've
observed something. I could type in here....but if I had our reading program, I could actually
just speak the answer in here, which is kind of awesome. So I'm just going to go ahead
and turn this on....and I could say....lets see....when A is a negative integer...it looks
like an umbrella. ....and when a is a positive integer, it looks like a cup.....Lets see....(typing)
Alright....so there's another way of kind of looking at this stuff. and then you've
seen that math canvas....here's another way that you could interact with the math canvas.
You can actually create a url for the math canvas...and its kind of like Google Classroom....it
works great with Google Classroom.....you can have it just be a general one, or you
can have it be every time you click on it it creates a new one for that student. So
same thing.....I could go in here and interact with this mathspace, and maybe I want to use
my freehand drawing tool and just.....like this.....and....like this......and maybe like
this.......and so on.....and then you can see there's a little turn it in button and
this would actually turn that in to my teacher. or could go right back. So you can see I sent
that to my teacher right there. So lots of different ways you can interact with the form.....I
just wanted to give you some ideas but you can be very creative about what you do with
that. Let me go ahead and hide this and lets go ahead and I'm just going to go ahead and
look at the responses.....and this will then integrate with...sheets.
Oh, looks like I didn't respond with this. But it will actually create a new sheet. And
your responses will actually come out on that sheet. So feel free to kind of explore with
that and see what happens there. Similarly with slides, there's a number of ways that
I really like to use EquatIO with slides. If you have students that really struggle
with attention issues, students that have ADD, or students that just get easily frustrated,
putting things in a slide format means that they are looking at one little piece of it
at a time, so it's better than giving them a worksheet that has twelve problems, they've
got twelve slides, and they're just looking at that actual slide. You can also create
a lot of sort of visual manipulative stuff by using the drawing features in slides. So
that's a great way - you can also share slide decks and have the students collaborate with
each other, so that's another kind of a a great, great way to share. Was there anybody
that wanted to see EquatIO in Windows I think you guys are all probably Googley folks, yes?
OK. Any questions there?
You guys are all Google. OK, So w'll go ahead and skip that piece, but just know that it
works pretty much the same.....if you want to launch it you launch down here at the bottom.
And it looks very similar down here at the bottom. There's just a little bit more that
we can do in the Google environment, and we can do all that cool stuff with PDFs that
we can do. So you guys kind of saw the gist of what the mathspace looks like. It's a great
way to push down at a lower level, but it's also a really nice way to kind of create some
extra scaffolding for your students, give you students sort of a playground where they
can show you a little bit more of what they do. But there's really no limit ---there's
my limit, which is basically the upper end of Algebra 2, but there's no limit at all
with what you can do with these tools, as far as higher math. So if you wanted to use
mathspace to integrate some more kind of project based complex stuff and put those complex
equations in there, you'd have both the visual and the math piece. So just remember you can
share that back you can keep track of what your students are doing, since you guys are
using Google, it just integrates really nicely with Google Classroom, so you can actually
keep track of all of this stuff through Google Classroom as well as that assignment piece.
So the idea is really to just kind of close that feedback loop with the students. I'll
make sure that you get all these slides afterwards so you can explore this, but I have a little
gallery of mathspace items here that you can look at, so you can kind of get some ideas
of different ways that you might want to use this. So they'e kind of....the more complex
ones towards the bottom....but you can see some examples here of what that might look
like so you can see what you just saw there....You can do....if you want to do some kind of fun
stuff...this a great way to do...kind of extra credit, Fun Friday, like really motivating
interesting fun things for your students if you want to. So I've got a bunch of those
that you guys can explore as well. So it didn't seem like any of you guys were using the Canvas
LMS, so we'll go ahead and skip over that, but just know that we can embed all of this
inside of the Canvas LMS. So if you're creating content in that kind of more closed loop,
we can go in there and help you with all of the same kinds of things. Just remember, everything
we do is trying to give you those multiple input methods, kind of built on those UDL
priniciples. I know if you guys have been with Google for a while you probably have
some older chromebooks that don't have the touchscreen access so that's why we created
that mobile piece, to make it really easy. And I'm not sure if I made it clear that EquatIO
for mobile not only works in docs, but it also works in the mathspace environment. So.
Lots of ways that you can go there. So just going over all the different ways that you
can input content in there. Wanted to make sure that you knew we do have some keyboard
shortcuts, so you saw me do the shift and enter, but if you're solving complex equations,
and you don't want to type each part in, control/shift/enter will actually enter the previous line in there
and you can align all of those things so the students can really show their work. You saw
in the PDF what that looked like, so we're really excited to be able to offer that. Some
of you may have math content that's available to you in PDF form, and i f you have our reading
program and EquatIO, you can do all of that together. I'm not sure if any of you are using
the CPM math program, but if you are, there are CPM integrations with Desmos, and you
can actually cut and paste the links from your digital textbook right into your toolbar
under the graphing piece and it'll just automatically build all of those things for you right inside
of EquatIo, which is really nice. EquatIO is free for teachers, so I wanted to make
sure that all of you have the link so that you register with us. I'm going to actually
leave our presentation for a moment here and just talk about how you can register for teachers.
We'll give you the link, but you can always just google 'texthelp free for teachers' and
it will take you to a little form that you'll fill out online, and you can see what that
looks like right here. You'll just fill that out, we have two products that you can register
for free online. Read&Write and EquatIO. I always suggest you just click both. And then
if you want to download the other one sometime, you've already done it. So just let us know
who you are, and make sure that that email is the one where you downloaded. So remember
if you .....you can't load it to 'noraiscool at gmail.com' and then register 'nora at texthelp"
you have to make sure that those two things match or we won't know which one to leave
on. And then just let us know --- here where it asks for your school or district admin
name and email....that's whoever you ask for support.We have great technical support but
if there's something that you're hitting up against in your district we just want to make
sure that we can coordinate that with your district and offer that extra little bit of
help. So definitely encourage you to apply for free for teachers. We do have some premium
features so the handwriting recognition, the formulas, the prediction piece the dynamic
graphing...those are premium features. But your students would actually have access to
quite a number of free features... So speech input, they can get two handwriting recognition
per day, we support the shortcuts, the LaTeX, math to speech, and some basic graphing.
You probably have questions about pricing. There are 3 ways that you can deploy Texthelp
products. one would be to individual users, and that's definitely possible. It is not
the easiest way to do things. It gets cumbersome pretty fast if you have student at one site
that bought it in January, and a student at another site that bought it in March, and
then the next year comes around, and one is expiring, and you don't know which one it
is....It can definitely cause some...kind of more work than you need to do behind the
scenes. So our pricing kind of reflects that's NOT the easy way to do things. So if you buy
it for one student at a time it's $100 per student, and then the next level up is what
we call a group. And the group for those of you that are Google users, will make sense...it
is a way of holding those students that have access inside your Google domain. It acts
like a basket or a bucket and we have a little mechanism where you can upload a list of the
student profiles that you want to have access. And it is kind of like a basket or a bucket
that holds those students so it is $10 a user with a minimum of 150 users. So you probably
intuited that it is the same price for 15 users as it is for 150, so you might as well
just go for it, and get that bigger group. It doesn't all have to be at the same site,
it just any students in your domain, so if any of you are looking at trying this with
a specific group... the other thing that that group does, is we are very serious about privacy
at Texthelp. We never, never collect identifiable student information, and that group acts like
lead bucket to Texthelp. We know you have a group, and we know everybody in the group
has access, but we can't tell you who's in the group. So your student's privacy is completely
protected. And then if you wanted to purchase this at the domain level, the price goes down
dramatically again to $1 a user based on your total enrollment. So we try to kind of make
that if 15% of the students in your district were going to use this, it's going to be easier
to just push it out to everybody, You just register your domain with us after you purchase,
and anybody that logs in from that domain will have access. So we do have a number of
different products, if you decide to purchase them all together we have kind of like a bundle
price for our texthelp toolkit, so if some of you have Read&Write and you're looking
at doing some of these other things, that's an option for you as well. We have a flipgrid
here with some shared EquatIO lessons, so if you start developing some things with EquatIO
and you want to share those you kind of want to take a look at those, you can. We also
have a full professional development department, but if you go to training.texthelp.com and
well make sure you get that link....you do need to log in because we do offer badges.
So you can take free online modules with us and earn badges. So if any of you are in an
administrative position, and you want to see which of your teachers are getting some traction
with EquatIO, this is a great way to kind of check. So if you go to our courses, and
then you go here and you look at Lets see... EquatIO fundamentals...so here's some basic
stuff, there's your introduction, how to use with Google docs, how to use it in Windows,
different input methods, that mathspace and mobile might be good, here's the graphing,
and so on. So each course, one of these things is designed to take 20 minutes to half an
hour. You would take a pre quiz, watch a short video, do directed activity, take a post quiz,
if you've been paying attention at all they are pretty simple and easy to get through
and then at the end you actually earn some badges. So that might be kind of useful for
those of you who maybe want to check this out a little bit. And just a little bit more
about some of the ways that we can help. we've got great technical support, we've got professional
development, we've got lots of different options for you. I will let Greg post this last poll
here and see if there's any ways that we can help you. (pause) OK.
And then just double checking before we let you go...did you have any additional questions
that you wanted to ask of us? Is there anything else that we can do to help? I'll give it
just a few moments here.... Alright. We'll go ahead and wrap things up,
and you know how to get a hold of us. We will definitely respond, I want to make sure that
we get our video captioned, so it may be a couple of days while we are captioning, and
then we will make sure that we send you a link to this video. Anything else that you
wanted to share, Greg? No. That was it, I really appreciate everybody
joining us this afternoon. If there are any questions or anything, any follow up, let
me know. But I will be sending, like Nora said, the recording out, so I just look forward
to answering any future questions that may come up from your districts.
Alright.Thanks so much for joining us! We appreciate you spending your afternoon with
us. Thank you everyone!
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