Contains invitations and preparation instructions for participants to take part to the online-tutorial.
The next online tutorials will happen on Wednesday May 23rd, focussing on the deployment of ActiveMath and the re-use of content-collections, and Thursday May 24th 2007, in collaboration with George Goguadze, focussing on the creation of interactive exercises. Find details below.
Please have an ActiveMath installed and started, see first installation instructions and have it proofed before (please request appointment if you need a new machine to be proofed with a remote-desktop method).
Please also make sure to have a Subversion client installed, such as TortoiseSVN.
We request from each participants:
Online authoring tutorial students will receive live the tutorial broadcast and reading the archive recordings… details are here:
The essential ingredient to get coordinate each other and allow feedback to flow from participants will be a chat system. Please join eds chat as first step of your tutorial connection having logged you in before.
We might migrate to other forms of chat if participants believe eds-chat is imperfect. A Skype conference call might also be arranged.
It is important that each participant receives the broadcast well and we shall take a bit of time to tune this at the beginning.
Because of the network delicacies and to allow lower bandwidth, we offer a real-time-streaming-protocol server. The tutorial will be available as a stream from:
rtsp://media.activemath.org/online-tutorial.sdp
or
http://media.activemath.org/online-tutorial.sdp
You might test your installation on this http test movie or this rtsp test movie. The looping movie should also play sound.
Alternatively, reduced bandwidth versions are available: small and tiny.
It has been experienced that this works well with quicktime-player and with the open-source videolan client. This method of streaming has a chance to circumvent firewalls and will try to use such methods as UPnP at the up-stream router to make the stream as smooth as possible.
Depending on your configuration, plugins may be able to display this right in the browser.
Archives of the first session are lost. Archives of the future ones will be made available.
The next online tutorial happens on Friday the 11th of May and will be focussed on the adaptive behaviour of ActiveMath. A preparation is required. Find details below.
For this tutorial to be fruitful we need urgently sample mathematical content which is sliced in items of various types (definitions, examples, introductions, exercises, …) as is typically found in a text-book. The material will be interlinked by relations we shall encode.
Participants should come with it already typed in jEditOQMath and visible in ActiveMath, ideally.
If not managing this, please take the time to write the structure of the items within jEditOQMath, just the titles and item types.
If not managing this, please send me a pointer to the content visible on the web.
Having an ActiveMath installed, see first installation instructions and have it proofed before (please request appointment if you need a new machine to be proofed with a remote-desktop method).
The next online tutorial happens on Friday the 4th of May and will the topic of mathematical input and presentation in ActiveMath. Find the details of the invitation below.
Having an ActiveMath installed, see first installation instructions and have it proofed before (please request appointment if you need a new machine to be proofed with a remote-desktop method).
Have run and understood the tasks of last session as described in the notes of the first session.
Dear participants to the online ActiveMath authoring tutorial,
As announced, the tutorial will take place on the April 20th and May 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. The first session will start at 10:00 AM CET (i.e. GMT+2) until 12:00 then 14:00 until 17:00.
For the tutorial we are using the real-time-streaming-protocol transmitting live video and audio signals. For this purpose, the following ports should be opened:
Your system administrator should be able to do this. Disabling firewalls may be an alternative which some consider risky.
Please take login or create an account eds.activemath.org, and describe in your profile your expectations of the ActiveMath server. If you have not done so yet, please send me the data of the computer you intend to use: RAM, operating-system, CPU, network.
Please obtain a subversion client and JDK 1.5 and follow the installation instructions. Also, you should please start a first time, and authorize, the jEditOQMath developer snapshot. Please do so before the installation check.
Please also install Firefox.
A very important step for us to enjoy a smooth usage is to verify the most common tasks can be achieved on your machine. We wish to verify this with our own eyes and mouse during the week before the tutorial, using a remote desktop tool such as copilot.com. Please take an appointment with me from Tuesday till Thursday next week so that we can do this verification. The machine that will be used for authoring and during the tutorial, including its network configuration, should be available.
Please watch the tutorial book for further news and the invitation to next meeting instructions.
We are starting a series of online tutorials for authoring ActiveMath content. The first series will be on April 20th and May 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. The goal of these tutorials is to introduce practically to the current concepts and tools to create content for the ActiveMath learning environment using a computer that authors are familiar with.
Participants are expected to attend using a computer with at least 1Gb of RAM and 1GHz of CPU as well as a high-speed internet connection (at least 512kb/s).
A familiarity with web-browsing and source-authoring is exptected. Participants’ expectations for the usage of the ActiveMath server will be requested to be presented.
Participants should register to Paul Libbrecht paul@activemath.org providing details of their machines’ environment. They will be requested to install all needed components as a first shot and we shall verify this installation the week before the first tutorial using remote computer control methods. Participants will be expected to experiment the authoring activities in the weeks between the tutorials.
We look forward to your participation. Note that the number of participants is limited to 8.
paul (and the other trainers)