Hi William, Besides the usual overview of how easy it is to install SAGE, how many goodies you get in one package, and the benefits of open-source, I'd demo as many nontrivial capabilities of SAGE as possible. Maybe in proportion to their weight in the undergraduate curriculum.
Such as: Introductory statistics: IIRC the R program is included? Calculus: Plotting, symbolic tools, limits Multivariate: 3D plots, JMOL Linear Algebra: Maybe over a finite field to demonstrate SAGE's explicit support for other fields, plus your monster integer determinants Upper-division courses; whatever strikes your fancy Sharing/publishing notebooks, the public server at sagenb.org, and the tools to make interactive demos with sliders and the like, would help people imagine how the interface features would help them with their courses. Should be a good opportunity to get some folks that are very interested in education excited about SAGE. From my experience organizing two of these conferences, you'll have folks from a wide range of institutions represented, including many community colleges. But everybody will be interested in new ways to improve their teaching. Rob On Oct 17, 11:23 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Any ideas what I should do at this (see below)? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stephen Glasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:40 PM > Subject: Details for PNW-MAA 2009 meeting > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear William, > > I thought I should get back to you regarding the PNW-MAA meeting > 2009.04.03-04. Your minicourse is now scheduled for Fri 2:30-5:30. > What title would you like for the minicourse? The theme of the > conference is "integrating computer software into the undergraduate > curriculum." To help us advertise your minicourse could you send > a short abstract describing the content and level of the minicourse? > > Our committee has decided to run three minicourses simultaneously > from 2:30 to 5:30 on Friday. I was hoping to attend at least two. > Hopefully most attendees want to attend one. A web > pagehttp://www.cwu.edu/PNWMAA09will be up soonish. > > Best wishes, > Stephen Glasby > > c.c. Dan Curtis, Chair Local Organizing Committee > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > > MAPCWU.PDF > 756KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
