First Sage Education Day!

[kcrisman]

We now have a Wiki page (http://wiki.sagemath.org/education1) for the
first ever Sage Education Day! I've taken the liberty to add the four
people who have personally told me they will be in the room for this
(which includes the two organizers), but feel free to remove/add
yourself if you want to.

Please advertise this to anyone in New England (or even further) who
might be interested in learning more about Sage, or discussing the
state of math software. We will be advertising at our local MAA
meeting in a few weeks as well.

I would like to especially thank the organizers of Sage Days 18 for
their hospitality, and to Nathan Carter of Bentley University, who
will be participating in talking about mathematical word processing
and his cool open source project, Lurch (http://
lurch.sourceforge.net/).

Hopefully there can be more of these to come in other regions of the
country. One might think that the Pacific Northwest would be a good
place to start ;)

- kcrisman

[William Stein]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:30 AM, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We now have a Wiki page (http://wiki.sagemath.org/education1) for the
> first ever Sage Education Day!  I've taken the liberty to add the four
> people who have personally told me they will be in the room for this
> (which includes the two organizers), but feel free to remove/add
> yourself if you want to.

Hi Karl,

Clay Math wants a *schedule* with times by Thursday night (Nov 12).
Can you come up with something precise ASAP? I have the schedule for
the rest of the week together now.

-- William

>
> Please advertise this to anyone in New England (or even further) who
> might be interested in learning more about Sage, or discussing the
> state of math software.  We will be advertising at our local MAA
> meeting in a few weeks as well.
>
> I would like to especially thank the organizers of Sage Days 18 for
> their hospitality, and to Nathan Carter of Bentley University, who
> will be participating in talking about mathematical word processing
> and his cool open source project, Lurch (http://
> lurch.sourceforge.net/).
>
> Hopefully there can be more of these to come in other regions of the
> country.  One might think that the Pacific Northwest would be a good
> place to start ;)
>
> - kcrisman
> >
>

--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[kcrisman]

On Nov 12, 1:46 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:30 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We now have a Wiki page (http://wiki.sagemath.org/education1) for the
> > first ever Sage Education Day!  I've taken the liberty to add the four
> > people who have personally told me they will be in the room for this
> > (which includes the two organizers), but feel free to remove/add
> > yourself if you want to.
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> Clay Math wants a *schedule* with times by Thursday night (Nov 12).
> Can you come up with something precise ASAP?   I have the schedule for
> the rest of the week together now.
>
>  -- William

William,

Yup, we have everything except for one topic (as noted on the wiki).
I thought Kiran had a copy of this...

8:30 Light refreshments available, quasi-registration

9:00-9:10 Introduction, any brief housekeeping announcements

9:15-10:00 Intro to using Sage in the classroom

10:00-10:30 Discussion of most popular/desired things in general math
software, and where it is/isn't in Sage

10:30-10:40 Break

10:40-11:10 Intro to Lurch (Lite)

11:10-11:30 Discussion of math and word processing - what works, what
doesn't, and state of Lurch and Sage on this.

11:30-11:50 Technical issues of Sage for newbies - logistics,
browsers, portability, where documentation *really* is, etc.

11:50-11:55 Discuss lunch options

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:10-1:55 Specific session on undergrad course, topic TBD

1:55-2:00 Thanks and encourage feedback

Please let me know if this part ends up on the claymath website, as it
would be good to have a direct link there for advertising. You will
note that we already have one person coming who is not otherwise
affiliated with the program, before any formal advertising has taken
place!

- kcrisman

[William Stein]

Thanks.

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi kcrisman,

I'm now updating myself with all the flow in the communities I belong
after a busy semester with nice results of the use of
Sage/TeXmacs-LyX/Cynin in education and is nice to see that there is a
more explicit connection and effort on Sage and Education with this
education days and the upcoming in February next year. I have been seen
Lurch. Seems pretty well oriented and now with the MathRider people
we're discussing the "word processor" part of the experience, so seems a
good timing. There are any video or other memories to view for this
first sage education days?

Cheers,

Offray

[William Stein]

http://wstein.org/sagedays18/day5/

[kcrisman]

> > good timing. There are any video or other memories to view for this
> > first sage education days?
>
> http://wstein.org/sagedays18/day5/

What viewers should open this sort of file - I'm not familiar with
it? Thanks for pointing out the link!

- kcrisman

[William Stein]

They are the "raw" video from my video camera. I haven't had time to
re-encode it. You can play them with a new version of VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[kcrisman]

On Dec 19, 11:13 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks. Incidentally, if (and when) you do get time to encode them,
please link to them from the Ed Day Wiki (http://wiki.sagemath.org/
education1) since I promised we would have anything we could linked
there.

Jason, if your worksheet is available, you could link to that too.

- kcrisman