How is everybody doing in the courses?

[Maria Droujkova]

How do you keep the energy of the course up? What interesting things happened so far?

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova

Make math your own, to make your own math.

 

[Dani Novak]

I am sharing with you the p2pu course directory.  I am not sure why but no one seems to do any work.  I emailed everyone (about 10 people) but no answer?  Maybe they are very busy.  Not sure.  Maybe I made a mistake somewhere?

--
Dr.  Dani Novak
Math Department
Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 14850 USA
no...@ithaca.edu
http://faculty.ithaca.edu/novak/
http://www.ithaca.edu/dani

[Carol Cross]

I guess I'm relatively lucky--I've had about half post something in the Forums so far (I'm thinking this is going to be mostly a forum-driven class).  But we were having some technical difficulties, and I asked everyone to email me to know if the messages got through, and only about 6 people emailed back to say they got my message.  So my experience hasn't generated a ton of response, even to a simple email request to reply to check that they are receiving messages.

This week was a little open-ended--I'm hoping there will be more response with the more specified weeks to come.

Carol

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[Joe Corneli]

My experience hasn't been *so* different. It mainly seems like people
are off to a slow start.

In Math for Game Designers, we had a live meeting using a web-based
tool, and about 6 people showed up. I ended up doing most of the
talking, but we did seem to make some tentative agreements.
(http://piratepad.net/mathgame)

In Short Calculus, ended up making it to the live meeting - but there
have been more total postings in our forum for Short Calculus than
there have been for Math for Game Designers.
(http://metameso.org/vanilla/index.php?p=/discussions)

One thing I think I'd do differently "next time" would be to get more
feedback from potential participants about how they would want the
course to do *before* the course starts, e.g. ask them whether or not
they want live meetings. If we had this sort of information
explicitly from the beginning, things would be easier! (I recently
wrote a somewhat lengthy essay about this topic for another P2PU
course, here: http://open-governance-and-learning.posterous.com/implementing-paragogy
- in case anyone is interested.)

On that note: I appreciate Maria's question and thanks to Carol and
Dani for sharing their reflections! Better to not give up at this
point - people are likely just figuring everything out a bit slowly
...

Salutations,
Joe

[Dani Novak]

 I thought that no one responded after the initial introduction (about 10 folks wrote the information about themselves in a google survey),   but so far only  3 people did the HW for first week. 


 I never did it before.  Looks like people are very busy and me too...   But it is really fun and has a great potential. 

--Dani

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Maria Droujkova <drou...@gmail.com> wrote: