Invitation to and Preparation for the next Online Tutorials

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.

Offline prerequisites

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:

• To have contents encoded in OQMath format with the following ingredients:
  • it includes and embeds pictures
  • it includes mathematical formulae appropriately presented for it to have tooltips
  • it includes several item types and a few relationships between them Please get in touch with me to be helped during Monday or Tuesday if need be.
• please send me ten lines about the infrastructure you typically wish to deploy ActiveMath on (operating system, speed and memory, network access, proxies, firewalls, how should learner access it…)
• please send, references to interactive mathematical exercises examples to George.

Schedule and Technical Connections

• The tutorial will run: 10:00-16:30 (CET) with tiny breaks on both days.
• We’ll be receiving video (and sound) using rtsp of an H264 movie (see the streams page)
• We shall share a skype-chat common session and teleconference (participants should have headsets or at least headphones)