Making Partially-Handwritten Slides Accessible
The Problem As instructors work to make digital course materials accessible to individuals who use screen reader technology, a common question is how to app...
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2025
Calling all Guest Posters!
Continuing my series on Getting Started with GitHub, I thought I should point out that you can directly contribute your own guest post to our blog using your...
Getting Started with GitHub
This post is supported by National Science Foundation award #2449139. While anyone in the mathematical sciences should have no trouble engaging in the dev...
True Randomization in an Introductory Statistics course
For about a decade now, I’ve been teaching on and off some form of introductory statistics for a wide variety of students across different institutions. ...
Using Doenet Interactives to Facilitate Inquiry
This post describes work of the author funded by National Science Foundation awards #2011807 and #2449139. An essential element of my Team-Based Inquiry L...
Handouts and Worksheets in PreTeXt
We all know that PreTeXt is great for writing textbooks. But did you know that it can also be used to create small, standalone course materials? Perhaps yo...
Updating Your Version of PreTeXt and PreFigure
PreTeXt and PreFigure are under active development - many people are currently improving them, making them easier to use, adding new features, and fixing bug...
HTML vs PDF for screen readers
After my last post about writing accessible course materials, someone asked whether the math in the HTML produced by PreTeXT really is any better than what y...
Accessible Course Materials
Update (2025-04-25): Added information about LaTeXML as another alternative for authoring.
Save the Date: MathTech.org Virtual Workshop on Accessible Course Materials (May 2025)
On behalf of the MathTech.org Team, I’m excited to announce our first-ever virtual workshop! Join us via Zoom this May 19-22 (times TBA) to learn how to auth...
Before Class with PreTeXt
As a student, I was frequently guilty of using math textbooks exclusively in order to complete homework problems. If I didn’t immediately know how to comple...
Supporting Active Learning with PreTeXt
While the benifits of using PreTeXt are numerous, one in particular that has been transformative in my own teaching is utilizing the html format of PreTeXt t...
PreTeXt for Courses and Slideshows
Did you know that you can use PreTeXt to create revealjs slideshows? Did you know that you can use PreTeXt to create a course website? I gave a talk toda...
Getting Started with PreTeXt
A quite popular ecosystem for authoring and sharing scholarly documents is PreTeXt. Using PreTeXt guarantees that you can “write once, read anywhere”: once y...
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