At my visit to Musselburgh Grammar this morning, I spoke to some of the maths department about using Activote. They were enthusiastic about the potential of the technology, but said something like "it looks easy as you stand there and explain it, but we'll forget everything you've said by the time we next come to use it". So.... to provide a bit of backup, here's a step by step guide to using Activote with your class. The following assumes that the voting pads have been registered with your PC. If not, chase up IT! Setting up the User Database You'll want your pupil names to be stored in the system, so that their names appear at the top of the screen when you run a vote. Here's how.... In East Lothian, we have a problem - we don't have write-access to the place on the C drive where the user database is stored! To get around this, we need to copy the default user database to somewhere that is writeable, then tell ACTIVStudio that we've done so: I
Hello. This is pretty cool, how would someone like me go about doing that? SJ
ReplyDeleteLatex and funky.... in the same post?! ;-)
ReplyDeleteHmm... it does rather stretch the meaning of "funky" doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteThe plugin is here:
http://www.anlak.com/?page_id=66
To make it work I had to comment out the require Snoopy line in the plugin script.
Hi Jonesieboy. Looks great but is snoopy not a black and white dog (Translated: you lost me when you started talking about snoopy lines in plugin scripts). We need to have a serious chat at some point so you can bring me up to speed.
ReplyDeleteCheers dude
I like the sound of latex!
Hi Craig. I'm talking to David Gilmour about setting this up for exc-el blogs. Getting it working for comments may be a bit trickier. Meanwhile, you'll be wanting to mug up on LaTEX markup - here's a good place to start:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.forkosh.com/mimetextutorial.html
Unfortunately it doesn't work in comment - hey I just fixed it so it does! Man, being a geek is so useful!
[tex]e^x=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{x^n}{n!}[/tex]
Thanks for the link Robert. Very Useful. I'm just getting into my laTEX and it's time for bed unfortunately. See you tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to the typographical pedants who wrote the specification, it should be typed as [tex]\LaTeX [/tex] or LaTeX in ordinary text. Nice though
ReplyDeletePhew - I've finally found out why plus signs were getting chomped - it was to do with the fancy comment posting done by this theme - 3K2. Once I disabled it, everything worked fine. As a final test:
ReplyDelete[tex]\frac{5x^2+3x+2}{7x^3+4}[/tex]