Vickie Long

Oct. 23, 2010

Ms. Harland,

As an Algebra 2 teacher, I love your videos! I teach Algebra 2 as a dual credit college course. The course is quick paced and rigorous and frequently my students get confused on certain skills and concepts and need to be able to see the math worked again. In your videos, you show several methods for attacking problems. I don't always have time in a class period to perform this miracle.

I experimented with my classes showing your video on Factoring by Grouping to one class and did direct instruction for another class. The class with direct instruction performed the task exactly as I demonstrated it, but the students who watched your video were glued to the video and were regrouping and thinking outside the box as they did their independent practice. Hmmmmmm...

Which leads to my question, our school has a proxy that blocks too much. My goal is to create a website where student can access your vidoes both at school with netbooks or at home when they need extra help. I know the videos are available to anyone on the internet, but I still wanted to ask, is it permissible for me to download your videos to a storage area so that students can access those videos from my website?

Thanks for your time in reading this email (I love math too).

Vickie Long

Math Department Chair

Connersville High School

Connersville, Indiana