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Math Standards Project: Delivering Professional Development with

John D. Solis, Ph.D. Texas Regional Collaboratives Center for STEM Education College of Education The University of Texas at Austin

Project Background
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Revised Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Mathematics adopted April 2012 Project began January 2012 Online self-directed professional development through Project Share Creating a bridge between revised standards and effective math instruction

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What is Project Share?

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State-wide learning management system Online environment that: n streamlines Web 2.0 and other digital tools, n organizes content and supporting media, n serves as a learning platform for inservice teacher professional development purposes, and n allows teachers to create personal learning networks (PLNs).

Americans with Disabilities Act

What we did
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What we plan to do in the future

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3Play Media Time stamped transcripts

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Continue use of text-based transcripts Use closed-captioning files with e-learning tools Develop Web- and mobilefriendly digital interactive media (HTML 5)

Narrations Classroom video

PDFs for all 72 lessons

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Camtasia Studio Tips

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Planning is key Working with closed captioning Use animation to illustrate complex concepts High resolution graphics Record and edit audio narrations outside of Camtasia Balance video quality and size

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Thank You!
thetrc.org

@drsolis

k12-techcorner.blogspot.com

john.solis@austin.utexas.edu