On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, john_perry_usm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> You teach at West Point? > > I teach at USM (Southern Mississippi). Completely different part of > the country, but you have a point: they care about price, too. Maybe > more so; the local paper has been running a series of articles > exposing tricks the textbook publishers use to gouge ever more money > out of students, with some university departments going along. > > I was getting more at the fact that students won't care how free it is > if they can't use it, and if the first thing they see is an open > source v. closed source thing, which I'm fairly sure most of them > won't care about, they're likely to pass over it. Honestly, I think > most of my department would ignore it. Rearranging it might make it > more appealing. That's all I meant to say.
I posted a new version which I think takes all your comments into account. http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to-sage.pdf Thanks again. It's still in draft mode and may need more shifting around. I probably won't have time until the weekend for it though. > >> Since students are generally immature, they >> don't usually see the long-term benefits of one choice or another, >> but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to make them aware of it. > > I do agree, and I wonder if I said anything about this to my classes. > > regards > john perry > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
