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Notes about the ActiveMath Online Tutorial, May 23rd, 2007

Raw Recordings

Can be found over rtsp : one speed of about ~600kb/s (with peaks at about 2000kb/s):

• morning 1
• morning 2,
• afternoon

Slides

…can be obtained in PDF format, In Flash format or PowerPoint format.

What happened

• participants were Albert, Adrien, OTA team, and Dieter (joined late)
• we first revised the collections provided thus far and introduced Adrien, a new tutorial member
• we then covered a typical installation of ActiveMath for an institution and how it is possible to make this server accessible to its members (e.g. the pupils) from within the institution, as well as from outwith (e.g from home)
• we delved a bit into the ActiveMath configuration, and demoed it

• an introduction to versioning servers was done with specific instructions how to update one’s own ActiveMath or a third-party’s collection (task checkout a collection and activate it)

• we then explained in more detail how to publish one’s own collection and how to exchange it

• a few words about the licensing issues were delivered, complemented by an excursion to the Creative-Commons License your Work and how to apply such a licence to your content
• we followed with a round providing advice for technical issues encountered in the current content collections’ development:
  • OTA team encountered all formulae to only show in prefix form, which got solved by a buildIndex (aka InstallActiveMath.bat on Windows), and took long because LeAM_calculus was also installed
  • several errors experienced got resolved by emptying the omdoc directory and running building-again
  • Adrien (as well as Dieter) encountered difficulties when inserting values for the for and definition element attributes. In both cases, it was accepted that the symbol was not particularly semantically valid since the definition was a very broad one. It was agreed, though, that linking to concrete symbols actually used in the expressions would be nice but would have created too many definitions which would be awkward.
  • Dieter had a reference to Flächen in der Ebene, a concept that would come, one day. A discussion followed about how to rely on content to come (e.g. dummy ids etc).
• we also reviewed who would deploy where, OTA team, Albert, and Adrien will deploy at their school, Dieter will prefer lecture.activemath.org for now

Forthcoming tutorials

• Tomorrow exercise authoring