Continuous formation

Maria Droujkova has done some great work putting together some Elluminate sessions on Math 2.0... and she has more to come . On Saturday the 26th she had Markus Hohenwarter, the father of GeoGebra and the chief developer Michael Borcherds on for an hour discussing the past, present and future of GeoGebra. She recorded the session and it's available online . What surprises me is that I still run in to teachers that have never heard of GeoGebra -- here you have free, open-source math software that almost any computer can run, it's multi-lingual, it's being used worldwide at all levels and has thousands of lesson plans and activities available on its wiki. And yet today I spoke to two Masters students who had never heard of it. In Ontario, it's problematic since we (well, public and Catholic schools) have software purchased for them by the province and that set includes Geometer's Sketchpad . Now, GSP is an extraordinary program and we owe a great deal to Key C...

Having looked through the posts on Maple Primes, I found a suggestion to insert MapleTA assignments into webpages. So, I flipped over to Wikispaces and tried it out. A little bit of detective work on the page locations, I got it to work. Since you can set MapleTA assignments to be anonymous, MapleTA will merely produced the questions and not record anything in the gradebook. Using the EMBED tool and the code below students can practice at whim: Remember of course, to change the square brackets to the corresponding angle brackets! [IFRAME SRC="http:// server /mapleta/modules/test.Test?className= classname &testName= testname " TITLE="MapleTA" WIDTH='100%' HEIGHT=600][/IFRAME] This follows closely on the heels of embedding GeoGebra into Wikispaces: [applet name="ggbApplet" code="geogebra.GeoGebraApplet" archive="geogebra.jar" codebase="http://www.geogebra.org/webstart/3.2/" width="884" height="612...