About Keith Jones

Keith is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at SUNY Oneonta. He created this website so that he'd have a place to post things he thought might be useful or interesting to others. No guarantees!

Embedding Desmos Activities in Blackboard

Desmos Activity Embedded in Blackboard Course

In this video, I show demonstrate how to embed Desmos Activities in a Blackboard class. Desmos Activities Desmos Activities build on graphs to allow the instructor complete control over how the students interact with the graphs, and allow student submission Continue reading Embedding Desmos Activities in Blackboard

Dancing Rectangles! – Building an Interactive Riemann Sum Demo in Desmos

||| Jump to Video ||| Jump to the Interactive Demonstration ||| I’ve been impressed with the free graphing calculator Desmos.com for quite a while now. It offers a very simple interface that is not intimidating to new users while providing Continue reading Dancing Rectangles! – Building an Interactive Riemann Sum Demo in Desmos

Platforms Supporting \(\LaTeX\) Online

Preliminary Comments This page hosts links to various platforms that support LaTeX for some form of online communication. Most of them are websites or apps, but some are systems for publishing websites. My personal experience with them ranges from having Continue reading Platforms Supporting \(\LaTeX\) Online

\(\LaTeX\) and Learning Management Systems

The goal of this post is to maintain some hopefully useful information about what support currently exists in popular Learning Managment Systems (LMSs) for displaying mathematics using LaTeX mathematics code, which is the standard for modern for communicating science and Continue reading \(\LaTeX\) and Learning Management Systems