{"id":1195,"date":"2011-06-08T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/08\/dms-help-media-services-serves-up-math-help-o-rly\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:02:00","slug":"dms-help-media-services-serves-up-math-help-o-rly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/08\/dms-help-media-services-serves-up-math-help-o-rly\/","title":{"rendered":"DMS Help: Media Services Serves Up Math Help.  O rly??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legaljuice.com\/huh%20say%20what.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 300px;height: 413px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legaljuice.com\/huh%20say%20what.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Ok, so math tutorials are not really DMS Help, but this particular website certainly is worth knowing about for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For those who don&#8217;t know, Salman Khan is the MIT-educated creator of the not-for-profit educational website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/#\">Khan Academy<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Salman, or &#8220;Sal&#8221; as he likes to be called, began developing video tutorials to help his nephew with math.  His site now houses more than 2,100 tutorials on a wide variety of subjects both in and out of the mathematical realm: basic algebra, calculus, differential equations, biology, chemistry, astronomy and physics to name a few.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While Khan Academy is certainly a great place to get help with your homework and study for exams (there are a huge number of practice problems on the site as well), there&#8217;s something relevant here for media-makers as well.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the things one notices right off is that these are LOW-tech videos.  He&#8217;s using a simple screen-capture software and hand-writing all of the work he does.  And despite this, his website has amassed over 58 million video views.  Some schools are even using Khan&#8217;s videos as supplements to their instruction.  With that in mind it&#8217;s worth considering the notion that a simple and solid concept is often much more effective than a sparkling execution.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so math tutorials are not really DMS Help, but this particular website certainly is worth knowing about for a couple of reasons. For those who don&#8217;t know, Salman Khan is the MIT-educated creator of the not-for-profit educational website Khan Academy. Salman, or &#8220;Sal&#8221; as he likes to be called, began developing video tutorials to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[104,106],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-tutorials","tag-dms","tag-dms-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}