I rely on my students knowing how to use their graphing calculators in my Physics class. Consequently, I spend a bit of time at the beginning of the school year teaching them how to use them. Unfortunately, they often loose skills they once had as we go along. So, this year I've decided to handle things differently. I will spend less time in class teaching them and more time at home. I'm in the process of creating some videos to help teach the skills they need. Don't expect high production values on these. My goal will be to do them in one take and to simply upload when done (no post editing).

Why am I doing this? Two reasons really. The first is so I don't have to spend too much class time covering it. The second is that the videos will stay on the internet, so if they need to review later in the semester they can.

My Graphing Calculator Handouts

• Basic Intro - This is the handout that accompanies all the "Calculator Intro" videos (or Download it).
  

Calculator Tutorial Videos

• Calculator Intro 0 - Some Basics (3:20) - Just some basics everyone should know. (alternate link)
  
• Calculator Intro 1 - Name and Graphing (5:44) - This video shows you how to put your name in you calculator and how to graph some simple data. (alternate link)
• Calculator Intro 2 - Math with Lists (4:13) - Do you have a lot of repetitive calculations to do? Then you need to know how to do this. (alternate link)
• Calculator Intro 3 - Equation of a Line (3:47) - How to do regression to find the relationship in your data (i.e. the equation of a line) (alternate link)
• Common Graphing Errors (4:01) - Some common graphing errors, what they look like and how to resolve them. (alternate link)
• Enter Equations the Easy Way (2:56) - You've found the equation that explains your data, now you need to get it into "Y=". You can write out the equation and then enter it, or you can enter it directly. (alternate link)
• Interpolation and Extrapolation (2:47) - Quickly solve for Y for a given X. (alternate link)

To subscribe to these tutorials as a podcast you can either:

• Using iTunes: Select Subscribe to Podcast from the "Advanced" menu and paste in this text itpc://blip.tv/bookmarks/rss/166678/itunes
• Use whatever program you normally use and subscribe using this link, http://blip.tv/rss/bookmarks/166678
  

Here's The first video in the series: