A number of people have asked me what technology tools I use in the classroom. It occurred to me that it might be useful to have a list:
- Thinkpad X230 (I write all of my notes by hand in class)
- Linux Mint
- Google Hangouts (Office hours and live recordings of lectures)
- A clip-on microphone (I write on my laptop screen, so the built in microphone picks up the sound)
- A projector (built into the classroom)
- A remote linux server (students can run computer simulations)
- An mp3 dictaphone (so I can give spoken feedback on writing assignments)
- RaspberryPi (electronics labs and soon to be seen in Classical Mechanics)
- iPad + stylus
- Dropbox (for posting assignments and PDF copies of the notes)
- Google calendar (embedded in this site so my schedule can be seen for appointments)
- This site :) (I just edit the html directly).
- Skype (students use this to do remote interviews of Research Scientists)
- Coursera and MIT OpenCourseware (I direct students here for additional resources)
- Sites like code academy etc (see bottom of this page for a list)
- Google chat (graduate students + honours projects)
- github (to share code)
- Youtube (for hosting live lectures, pre-recorded lectures, and short video clips)
- Keynote, for the odd time I make a prebuilt figure
- A scanner, when I need to include an image from a textbook
- gnuplot (for plotting)
- python (for programming)
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