Notes of online tutorial 1, day 5: interactive exercises

Notes about the ActiveMath Online Tutorial, May 24th, 2007, last of this first series of online tutorial.

Raw Recordings

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

• morning
• afternoon

What happened

Note: all links still have to be populated here!

• We started by reviewing the participants’ projects, each had one:
  • OTA team wish to encode their exercise-sheets as interactive ActiveMath exercises, the collection is still in test phase, it will probably rely on LeAM_calculus
  • Adrien, of HEG Fribourg, is working on encoding their admission exam content, made of texts and exercises, collection hegadmexa started and a first book is visible on lecture
  • Dieter wishes to go further into encoding pythagoras’ introduction and start another about pythagoras page 1 and page 2. collection started here
  • Albert provided us, this time, an exercise sheet being an introduction to vectors and its TeX source, such content is a nice challenge to the semantic macro-structure characterization and potentially to the re-use policy… to be followed in the forum
• the tutorial then went with a relatively elaborate demo of eXtasy in the morning, presenting all features of this graphical authoring tool and ActiveMath exercise system
• doing so, we took the time to encode an an exercise of page 8 of HEG admission book where the learner should simplify fractions.
• the practical realization of a the large multi-steps exercise of OTA followed in the afternoon. It yielded many comments and questions and helped to deepen the knowledge of the tool
• we concluded with a wrap-up with feedbacks. Here are a few, I would love that participants comment further!
  • a pity we spent so little time on eXtasy
  • I intend to go further and authoring, I now have a good background but will certainly need help
  • I have a good grasp now
  • streams recordings are important, I will use them
  • seeing in video what an expert is doing to solve a task we’ve set us is really helpful
  • I keep wishing minimal tasks description that I could reproduce for anything we’ve met during this tutorial, keep going the tasks book, having videos of tasks being achieved would enhance this
  • the streaming technology used worked really fine, the delay between skype-calls and quicktime is annoying but livable.

Forthcoming tutorials

This tutorial was the last one of this series. A few feedback has been provided which shall be echoed here. Among others, desire for more tasks-as-videos and for more tutorial about extasy is requested.