Notes of online tutorial 1 day 1

This page contains notes gathered after the first online tutorial, April 20th 2007. It should provide links to all things discussed during this day.

Appreciation

My experience, as trainer was rather good. I believe we need to enhance the participants’ communication methods (probably skype voice, maybe showing their screens) as well as the availability of supporting material during that time (so that people can browse about during this time).

I would look forward for echoes of the participants. A comment here or a blog entry would fit.

Schedule etc

We started at 10:00 but had to wait this or that person which hadn’t received instructions correctly. Then we tuned-up on the eds chat but the echo was catastrophic: some people weren’t seen, some kept coming and going. After a long and difficult exchange we managed to get a skype chat running between all which was faithful.

The seminar lasted till 12:30, restarted at 14:00 and stopped at 16:30. Most people were seeing one of the RTSP streams, although packets seemed to have difficulty to go to south efficiently.

Attended the tutorial were Stefan Buchholz and others from OTA, Maechdel, Dieter, Albert.

Topics covered and sources of information

Paul made presentation about the following topics using the slides that can be downloaded in ppt, pdf, or keynote:

• ActiveMath as a web-server with experience of language adaptation
• overview of content collections ingredients, OQMath and publish process
• presentation of techniques and tools used: XML, Java Web Start, Subversion
• deeper presentation of jEditOQMath (quoted the authoring handbook jEditOQMath tutorial)
• demo of eXtasy being used (referenced the eXtasy manual and eXtasy task steps).
• started jEditOQMath jnlp
• experimented first scribbles of content

• picture embedding in ActiveMath

• moreover an overview of ActiveMath was downloaded using the ActiveMath Videos (in avi, mov, and h264). Which was looked at during the noon break.

Tasks mastered by participants

We have covered the concepts and tasks described above. It will be assumed that each participant tries to achieve all of the following tasks and is familiar with them:

• basic installation
• add content and see a bit
• add picture and OQMath and see it
• new document and new page
• …

Further wishes

• more precise jump on board instructions
• Skype voice session
• a break in the afternoon

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