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Archive: ActiveMath Authoring and Discovery Tutorial, Jan 2007

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Archive: About the Jan 2007 authoring tutorial

This page provides general information about the tutorial. It can be taken as an FAQ.

Where? when ?

Where will it take place and when ? The tutorial will take place at DFKI building in Saarbrücken, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 on the University Campus in room Barwise.

It will start at 10:00 AM on the 30th and end at 17:00 on the 1st, the normal schedule will otherwise be 9:30-18:00.

Earlier editions

Has this workshop or tutorial already happened ? The first such training started with the Matheprisma team, then took place formally with the first LeActiveMath authors. Last edition took place in July last year with a few authors but some technical issues, see the wiki page about the july 2006 issue. Some of the material of this tutorial will be adapted to this one.

Trainers

Who will make the presentations and who will support us ?

Slides

Are there slides or course-notes already available? Slides notes of the presentations are made and will be enriched in the trainings subversion’s directory.

Preparation

What can I read or install to pepare for the tutorial?

  • if you are not familiar with source authoring, such as TeX or programming fom source, it’d be time to do so. Maybe a good TeX tutorial is a good idea, maybe try to learn to author HTML pages.
  • make sure you are using the latest Firefox browser (1.5 or 2.0), a Java version 1.5 (or 1.4 or Macs), and a Subversion client (see subversion clients)
  • for some reading and reference material, please see the previous edition for now.

Archive: Announce of the Jan 2007 authoring tutorial

Dear ActiveMath interested,

our group will be organizing an ActiveMath authoring and discovery tutorial on January 30th and Feb 1st 2007 at DFKI in Saarbrücken, Germany.

This workshop will feature a strong authoring tutorial but will be based on an active dialogue: expectations of each participants about the ActiveMath learning environment will be discussed and approaches to realize them in ActiveMath will be introduced and realized concretely.

It will provide participants with strong insights on the usage and capabilities of ActiveMath as well as the authoring tools that exist for it.

It is aimed at persons comfortable with the usage of web-browsers and text-editors.

The workshop will start at 10:00AM on January 30th (with preliminary set-ups) and end on Feb 1st at 15:00 after a presentation of the results.

The workshop will be lead by members of the ActiveMath group with an active involvement of each participant. The participation is free of charge, in exchange, we expect this participation to be logged and analyzed for evaluation purposes.

The participants are expected to:

  1. send us a mail of pre-registration until Jan 10th indicating their names and relevant capabilities (please include experience and names of relevant XML, text, html, TeX, Wikis, word-processing, RDF, concept-mapping, adaptive hypermedia, LMS, CMS tools) (or consider late registration).
  2. send us until Jan 15th about a page describing the content they wish be realized in ActiveMath, with the most amount of references and URLs, along with pointers to two e-learning environment demoes they find good.
    2.-bis: late registration: send us until Jan 21st both answers to 1. and 2.
  3. participate to the tutorial actively with concrete realizations and critiques of others’ projects
  4. bring a laptop which is capable of running ActiveMath server (min. 1GHz, and 512 Mb of RAM) with wifi card, having Mozilla 1.5 or later and a java development environment version 1.4 or later pre-installed

Linux desktops, with KDE environment, can be arranged to accomodate for expectation 4).

Registration will only be accepted after the expectations 1) and 2) are met. Doing this enables us to make sure that the system is ready to accomodate such wishes. It has been our training experience that caring for such in advance guarantees that small glitches are ironned out, permitting, e.g., a new file-type to be properly served.

More information can be obtained from Paul Libbrecht, by email at paul@activemath.org.

Please contact our secretaries, Irmtraud Stein or Astrid Thönes, for help in finding accomodations in Saabruecken: stein@ags.uni-sb.de or Sek-DMAS@dfki.de.

paul

Archive: Jan 2007 Tutorial Schedule (Agenda)

Proposed schedule of the authoring tutorial to start on the 30th of January.

Room: Room Barwise, DFKI, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, University Campus, Saarbrücken (directions)

See the Slides notes.

Tuesday Jan 30th: 10h-18h

  • machine set-up, software installation, core configuration (Paul, Stefan)
  • feature tour and demo (Martin)
  • user-model, tutorial component, metadata (slides, metadata spec, Carsten)
  • basic webserving and config (Paul)
  • basic XML-content, reload workflow, preview perspectives (Paul)
  • books and collections (Paul)

Wednesday Jan 31st: 9h30-18h

  • internationalization (Paul)
  • OQMath, notations, multiple medias (Paul)
  • download of LeAM-calculus content as of today
  • sharing content, subversion usage, licensing for re-use (Paul)
  • presentation of personal projects by participants
  • exercise creation and testing (George, Ian)

Thursday Feb 1st: 9h30-17h

  • personal projects by participants
  • ICmap exercise creation and testing (Martin)
  • linking into ActiveMath (Paul)
  • integrated practice of tutorial component and exercises (Paul, Carsten, George)
  • discussion about special wishes
  • presentation of results and comments

Archive: Participants List: Jan 2007 tutorial

List of participants registered to the ActiveMath Authoring and Discovery Training:

  • Barbara Grabowski, Technical Highschool Saarbrücken, advanced author of ActiveMath content
  • César Córcoles, Open University of Catalunya, beginner author of ActiveMath content
  • Tim Buhrke, Gymnasium Wentorf, Schleswig-Holstein, beginner author of ActiveMath content
  • Thomas Kairies, TGBBZ-I in Saarbrücken, beginner author of ActiveMath content
  • Nicole Recktenwald, TGBBZ-I in Saarbrücken, beginner author of ActiveMath content
  • Antonin Jancarik, Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague: I have no experience with ActiveMath content, but use AMSTeX, HTML and MS ClassServer e-learning system in my teaching. I have also some experience with database systems a and .NET programming (on MCT. and MCDBA. level). I expect to learn how I could use ActiveMath.
  • Marianne Moorman, Faculty of Math Education, Ludwigs Maximilians University, Munich, intermediate ActiveMath author
  • Thomas Schramm, HCU Hamburg, beginner ActiveMath author
  • Hélène Giroire, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
  • Claire Cazes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
  • Wolfgang Renz, MMLab, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences: interested in blended learning application, in particular practicability and effort/cost of expanding existing ActiveMath content by course teachers to include there own exercises or additional sections/paragraphs. What about interoperability/integration of ActiveMath with tools we currently use in our courses like Moodle or Wikis or Smartboard-Software or Maple or LaTeX or Applets and other Browser-PlugIn related contents?
  • Éva Vásárhelyi, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, interested in teacher training

  • Manfred Kerber, University of Birmingham: I have no experience with ActiveMath content, but use LaTeX, HTML (recently XHTML) quite intensively in my teaching. I expect to learn how I could use ActiveMath in my teaching, and would like to understand in addition to the techniques, the costs and limitations.