desmos.com Desmos is a free website that is a graphing calculator. In this I will tell you how to do some of the things Desmos offers. When you get to desmos it will look like this: To make an equation into a table, you need to first type your equation into the left side area. Then click on the gear that is in the top right hand corner of the typing area, then click the symbol that looks like a table after this to create your table. Then you can edit the table as you need to. To find an intersection point find where the two line intersect, click on your graphed line at that point, then read the coordinates. To send a screenshot you will need to make an account. I did so by connecting desmos to my google account. Once you've done this you click on the green button to the right at the top. This will then open up like so: You can choose any way to share it but if you select image it will open a new tab where you can download the screenshot of your graph and email it, share it, or save it to your computer.
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In Algebra Lab and we learned how to use gmath. Gmath is a program that allows you to create math expressions/equations with graphs, handwriting, speaking, and typing. To add gmath to your computer you will need to create a google doc, scroll over add-ons, put your mouse over g(math), then select create math expressions. Then you will will be able to get the program running, a tutorial will also come up; watch it! Next once you have typed an expression or equation you press the button to the left that looks like this: To use the handwriting option go back to add-ons, scroll over g(math) and then select create a handwriting entry. Then a new window will pop up, here you can write with your mouse to create a math expression or equation.
If you would like to use factions, exponents, etc. in your math equation go back to create math expressions, click advanced, then click the icon that shows x^a this will then give you a bunch of options to choose from. This is how to add these by typing and not talking through the microphone or handwriting it. In order to create a graph you will need to once again scroll over add-ons, click g(math), and select create a graph. Now from here type your equation/expression into the box that says functions. After this feel free to change your graph zoom region as you wish, and then click insert to doc when you are ready. In my personal opinion I think gmath will be very helpful to me in the future especially since Chromebooks are being used more and more in the classroom. It is easy to use (except for the microphone part), and it makes writing expressions/equations on the computer a breeze. Today is our last digital literacy class. Next week we begin Algebra Lab. As this is our last class, a final reflection is needed. One of the most important things in Digital Literacy that I have learned is how to be a good digital citizen. Out of all of the activities, assignments, and projects we did I most enjoyed the country researching project because I required us to one learn how to make a good presentation and two because it was something I was interested in. I didn't really like coding. I found it to be boring and a waste of my time. I think that I will be using NoodleTools and Prezi in my future classes because they will be most useful to me. The playlists that we used helped to create a learning plan and to keep everyone on track, but some of the things on the playlists I already knew and didn't need to spend a long amount of time on. The overall class felt really slow to me. It felt like we were doing the same thing every day and accomplishing not as much as I would in my other classes. The screencast videos were helpful to some degree. They didn't teach us everything we needed to know though about what we were doing. Overall, I wish if I was to take this class again that it wasn't as slow. I understand some people like the slower pace, but for me I like to work at my own pace (which is pretty fast) so this wasn't ideal for me
Padlet was cool, but since we didn't use it often I felt like I didn't get enough knowledge about it to make an opinion about it. The blog questions we did at the beginning of the year certainly helped with this blog, but I felt like we never focused on making our blogs really good. The blog don'ts I felt were important to know, but we just kept going over them that half of the things we did with the blog don'ts weren't necessary. The social media and your future playlist I felt was one of the most important things I learned in this class. Same thing with the college bound activity. It really opened my eyes to the real world. The digital citizen project was not needed as we already knew everything and no research was needed. We could of used popplet, google slides, and screencast for another project that was more interesting to us. Everything about the licensing was important to learn and I didn't really know a lot about it so it expanded my knowledge. I really like the country research project and everything we learned doing it. And finally as I have said before I didn't like coding. Although I didn't like some of the digital tools we used I am glad I was able to learn how to use them. They will definitely help me in the future. ![]() Today in class we learned to code some more. We used the website Code.org which provides things called "Hour of Code" where in less than an hour you can learn to do simple coding. When we first started this assignment, I choose to do the Minecraft hour of code. I successfully completed it. Today, I first started off by doing the hour of code called artist, this was too hard and confusing for me though so I gave up on it. I finally ended up choosing the Infinity Play Lab. This one was easy to understand and complete. For the end the "game" a created was for the user to have a character touch another character by using the arrow keys. I learned that coding is a valuable thing to learn, if you want to program different things. I must admit, it was pretty cool being able to move a character around on the screen by myself however, I don't really like to code. I find it time consuming and sort of boring and hard to understand. This for me was the most challenging part of getting through this assignment. In the future I don't think I will be coding as it has no interest to me, but maybe another teacher will assign this work to me and then this information will be used. |
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