[Edu-sig] Online Data Base of Dynamic Question

2012-05-21 Thread Raniere Gaia Silva
Hi, I was searching for a easily and quickly way to make math tests/exercises (I don't want a course management system like moodle http://moodle.org/ or webwork http://webwork.maa.org/). Since I didn't find any great solution I start to make one: http://smart-teacher.alwaysdata.net/ would be

Re: [Edu-sig] Online Data Base of Dynamic Question

2012-05-21 Thread Philip Guo
Have you checked out the Khan Academy platform for generating math questions? I don't know how user-customizable it is, though. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Raniere Gaia Silva r.gaia...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I was searching for a easily and quickly way to make math tests/exercises (I don't

Re: [Edu-sig] Online Data Base of Dynamic Question

2012-05-21 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 21 May 2012 13:08:10 -0300, Raniere Gaia Silva writes: Hi, I was searching for a easily and quickly way to make math tests/exercises (I don't want a course management system like moodle http://moodle.org/ or webwork http://webwork.maa.org/). Since I didn't find any great

[Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Carl Cerecke
I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the current mentors know any programming (one said that he had done some programming in

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 22 May 2012 08:54:47 +1200, Carl Cerecke writes: I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids the re who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the current mentors

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Carl Cerecke c...@free.org.nz wrote: I'm thinking of becoming a mentor at a local Computer Clubhouse http://www.computerclubhouse.org/. In particular, there are some kids there who are quite keen to learn to make their own games, but none of the current mentors

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching python at a Computer Clubhouse

2012-05-21 Thread Carl Cerecke
The kids are 10-18. Yes, I won't group them by birth-date. I started teaching myself programming when I was about 10, on a Commodore-64, from books and magazines. If there's a kid that's as keen as I was at that age, then hopefully they'll be able to progress rapidly. The group will be fairly