More ruminations regarding Python and math teaching, at the Math Forum, with stuff about Smalltalk, OLPC etc.
Excerpt: """ I'm thinking Arthur Siegel (on edu-sig / Python Nation) was on the right track in always insisting that VPython become a part of the standard distro. Having something relatively easy, user friendly that's OpenGL, is gonna do wonders for your geometry classes, and after geometry + geography, what else is there? Me 'n Sir William thought the same way. [William Colby -- KU] """ http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7133134&tstart=0 Also, after two days with the physics teachers, I'm again impressed with how far ahead the community seems to be, vis-a-vis most of the math teaching community, in terms of embracing social networking, other tools. http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/physics-conference.html I was sorry to miss Ruth Chabay's VPython presentations. She was among the presenters. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rwchabay/ I did see stuff happening with Python though. Even my own work was mentioned (Studies in Human Motion, using Python + POV-Ray, with input from a spreadsheet getting from sensors attached to a dancer's body). The movies: http://physics.doane.edu/hpp/Resources/UHMCD/UHMCDMedia.htm http://physics.doane.edu/hpp/Resources/UHMCD/UHMCDPeople.htm (includes me in the credits) Then there's this software called Logger Pro by Vernier that a lot of physics teachers are using. Venier is to physics teaching sort of what TI is to math teaching? Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
