Hi,
On 19/12/09 10:20, [email protected] wrote:
Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:* Installing the cyn.in software _also_ inside the university's severs (at this moment it is in a local free software community server). * Prototyping low cost touch boards with Wii controls, so we can have them everywhere. * Integrating MathRider with Source Python Distribution (Sage Small) so we can run it everywhere with low connectivity or computational resources and grow/bridge from MathRider to Sage.This is all very interesting. Thanks for the update. Please keep us updated on what you're doing.
Sorry for the late response. I was on vacation and there were not much updates. In that time we made Spanish translations and other adaptations of the MathPiper docs (the project changed its name to this one...) and today is my first class presenting the environment and how we will use it in the semester.
1. I've never heard of cyn.in (http://www.cynapse.com/cynin, right?), and it certainly looks interesting.
Yep. That one. The idea is to use a open platform (in the sense of source and affiliation) that can be used to create communities of practice around the subject that I'm trying to teach (linear algebra, pre-university math, and so on). We have tried several ways, from CMS, to mailing list, to microblogs, and finally we came here. I really don't like LMS -"Learning Management Systems" (free or otherwise) because they're too focused on "management" (as understood by the institution) and not on learning and worse of all, they reproduce a not much effective place for learning: the school and the classroom, but now "powered by Internet" (TM :-P). Knowledge Management Systems like cyn.in have a more emergent way of doing things and are not centered about remaking the classroom on Internet, but on knowledge discovery using the technologies of social web: social tagging and ranking, blogs, wikis, microblogs, audio, image and video repositories. Now is easy to talk about knowledge management and social web and I see that students get it better. Of course we still need things to make a bridge with institucional educative systems and non-institutional ones, but I think that we're on the right path.
2. I've experimented with Wii interactive boards (built my own infrared pen from a whiteboard marker, for example, and I have several more spare parts around for building several more). I'm interested in what works well for you with the Wii controller.
Working on the touchscreen laptop is fine for now, but I want to be in front of my students to give my class and also to let them pass on the blackboard, so Wii seems the next step to make this happen. I let you know my advances.
3. Also, I'm interested in how you are connected MathRider and Sage. I don't know a whole lot about the MathRider project; do you mean that you are replacing Yacas with Sage inside the MathRider IDE?
The thing is that Sage is too big and the GUI is too/only web. MathPiper starts in another place: small and with and IDE as desktop off-line interface that can be extended in java. I think that we can build a bridge between both starting in one place. So the idea is to use MathPiper this semester with my students and start to modify it to include the cross platform things that Sage can offer starting with Sage Small (source python distribution) may running on jython. This will happen as the need dictates, but I will keep you posted.
Thanks, Jason
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