The JMM are in Washington, DC, this year, and I wanted to point out a few opportunities/events of interest to Sage-edu folks.
1) David Joyner, Marshall Hampton, and I have organized a panel session on using open source technology in undergraduate courses. We will definitely have David speaking on Sage, as well as someone from R and WebWorK. It will be Tuesday afternoon of the conference, and I *strongly* encourage anyone who gets this to attend. (I will also cross-post this piece to sage-devel.) 2) There are several contributed paper sessions which ANYONE, pretty much (from high school to research universities) can submit an abstract to, though of course not all are accepted, which are very relevant. I encourage anyone interested in presenting Sage to a wider audience (*and* who has something really new to say) to see if they might have something to contribute - see http://www.maa.org/meetings/cps_jmm09.html . Some sessions I think might be relevant include "Demos and Strategies with Technology that Enhance Teaching and Learning Mathematics", "Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra", "The Mathematics of Games and Puzzles", "Mathlets for Teaching and Learning Mathematics", and "Statistics Resources on the Web". 3) For those who are interested, there will also be some other panel sessions related to OSS. There will be one on geometric freeware, which includes several open-source projects like GeoGebra, on Tuesday morning, and one on online homework delivery systems, which does have some interface with OSS, on Tuesday afternoon after the one mentioned in point 1). Finally, those interested in technology more generally will find the one on this in stats education (where R via Sage could make an impact) interesting, on Thursday morning. I hope to see many of you there! - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
