July Events, 2006
Paul Kates, Mathematics Faculty LT3 Liaison
Event Summary
LT3 Events
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* Collecting (and using) formative feedback to improve students'
learning with an online instant feedback system.
Josie Csete, Senior Educational Development Officer, Educational
Development, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wednesday, July 12, 10am
* TechExpo: Convergence of mobile computing in the Higher Education
Koorus Bookan, LT3 Systems Design Analyst
Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 12:00pm
* WebOps Drop-In Clinic
Presented by Web consultants from IST, CPA, LT3, and Graphics.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 9:00am-12:00pm
TRACE Events
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* Freeing Your Voice - Wednesday, July 19 - full
* Teaching Dossiers - Wednesday, July 26
* Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher - Thursday, August 10
WLU Event
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* Laurier's Annual Teaching Day
Exploring and Understanding the Millennial Student: Take Two
Keynote Speaker: David Foot (UT Economics), Author "Boom, Bust and Echo"
Thursday, August 31
Apple Event
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* New "hardware and software solutions" and job information by
two UW alumni (Dave Conroy, Peter Lowe) from Apple.
Everyone welcome. Monday, July 10, 2-4:30, DC 1351.
* Discuss Apple hardware/software with Waterloo Alumni
Peter Lowe, Senior Director of Consumer Apps and Dave Conroy,
Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technologist,
Monday, July 10, 11:15 -12:15 DC1316.
Conferences
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* Maple Conference 2006, July 23-26, Wilfred Laurier University.
* Working with and Learning From the World's Best, August 8-11, Ottawa.
6th Annual MERLOT International Conference.
* 7th Annual Imperial Oil Summer Institute for Computer Studies Educators,
August 15-18, 2006, University of Waterloo.
LT3 Events
i-Feedback
Josie Csete, Senior Educational Development
Officer, Educational Development, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Wednesday, July 12, 10am - 11:15am
FLEX Lab, LIB 329, Dana Porter Library
Collecting (and using) formative feedback to improve students'
learning is a "good idea" that is difficult to do well in actual
practice. This presentation reports on an online instant feedback
system that is designed for teachers to quickly and easily customize
and administer an online questionnaire survey for students. The
feedback results are collected and analyzed by the system. Based on the
survey results, which are made available in a timely manner by the
instant feedback system, the teacher can make prompt course
improvements for the same class of students who have given the
feedback.
To register for this event, please go to: http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/events/
TechExpo: Convergence of mobile computing in the Higher Education
Koorus Bookan, LT3 Systems Design Analyst
Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 12:00pm-1:00pm
FLEX Lab, LIB 329, Dana Porter Library
Mobile devices, cellphones, clickers, PDAs. A closer look at how these
devices might affect the way we access and interact with content. Is it
possible to converge some of these technologies within the Higher
Education environment? Please refer to this month's LT3 Spotlight
(http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/) for an indepth discussion of this topic
prior to the event. Light refreshments will be served (juice, water,
and cookies).
To register for this event, please go to: http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/events/
WebOps Drop-In Clinic
Presented by Web consultants from IST, CPA, LT3, and Graphics.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 9:00am-12:00pm
FLEX Lab, LIB 329, Dana Porter Library
Are you interested in improving your UW department or office website?
Visit our drop-in web clinic and meet with experts from IST, CPA, LT3,
and Graphics. Keeping within UW Common Look & Feel guidelines, we'll
assist with code tips, design pointers, and suggestions for making the
most out of your site using available tools and resources. Although
this session is of a technical and design nature, anyone involved with
UW website design, maintenance, or content is most welcome. Please drop
in anytime between 9am and noon. RSVP: by Monday, July 24th at
http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/webclinic
TRACE Events
Freeing Your Voice
Two sessions of this workshop are already fully subscribed.
Please get in touch with TRACE (trace@admmail.uwaterloo.ca)
if interested in scheduling more sessions.
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: MC 5158
(Enrolment limited to 20 participants.)
Teaching Dossiers
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Location: MC 4051
(Enrolment liminted to 45 participants.)
Register at www.trace.uwaterloo.ca/workshopregold.htm
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Time: 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Location: TBA
(Enrolment liminted to 20 participants.)
WLU Event
Laurier's Annual Teaching Day
Exploring and Understanding the Millennial Student: Take Two
Keynote Speaker: David Foot (UT Economics), Author "Boom, Bust and Echo"
Date: Aug 31/06
Time: 8:30 - 16:30
Location: Bricker Academic Building
Cost: Faculty and staff of educational institutions external to
Laurier are welcome to register. A $50 registration fee for non-Laurier
registrants will apply (fee includes keynote address, lunch, sessions
and resource materials).
Schedule and registration at link above.
Apple Event
Monday, July 10, 2006
New "hardware and software solutions" and job information by
two UW alumni (Dave Conroy, Peter Lowe) from Apple Computer.
Everyone welcome. Monday, July 10, 2-4:30, DC 1351.
Discuss Apple hardware/software with Waterloo Alumni
Peter Lowe, Senior Director of Consumer Apps and Dave Conroy,
Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technologist,
Monday, July 10, 11:15 -12:15 DC1316.
Conferences
Maple Conference 2006 - July 23-26 at Wilfred Laurier University. The preliminary call for papers deadline is February 28th, with full paper due March 17th.
Keynote speakers include
Dr. Frangois Cellier, President, Society for Computer Simulation
Dr. Carl Cowan, President, Mathematical Association of America
Dr. Richard Bartels, UW CS professor (now retired),
Renowned authority on Computer Graphics
Working with and Learning From the World's Best - 6th Annual MERLOT International Conference, August 8-11, 2006, Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa. Co-sponsored by CLOE, The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges (http://cloe.on.ca/).
MERLOT is an international cooperative of higher education
institutions and professionals working to amass superior online
resources to improve learning and teaching. At www.merlot.org MERLOT
maintains a digital library of online teaching-learning materials, as
well as myriad learning enhancements to help educators explore online
teaching and learning and bring it to their classrooms in productive
and vibrant ways.
Tuesday, August 15 - Friday, August 18, 2006 - 7th Annual Imperial Oil Summer Institute for Computer Studies Educators - Strategies for implementing the curriculum for computer science and computer engineering
Registration deadline: Friday, May 19th, 2006.
Registration and agenda: www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/csteachers/reg06.shtml
Tuesday, August 15 - Friday, August 18, 2006
University of Waterloo
The Imperial Oil Summer Institute for Computer Studies Teachers
provides educators for grades 10-12 with activities useful
in the computer science and computer engineering classrooms. The
four-day conference will combine lectures, hands-on presentations and
computer labs and foster support and discussion on relevant curriculum
issues including curriculum content and teaching and learning
strategies.
Sessions will be presented by University of Waterloo faculty members
and graduate students, as well as high school teachers. Teachers will
also have an opportunity to network and relax in the evenings at
planned social events.
Maple
An Innovative Approach to Post-Calculus Classical Applied Math
Robert J. Lopez
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (retired), Maplesoft (Note: To
view the paper you may be asked to register at Maplesoft.com. If
you wish, I can send a copy of the paper instead. Please send your
request to pkates@uwaterloo.ca.)
From the introduction of the paper:
Post-calculus classical applied math is scattered through courses
in differential equations, boundary value problems, vector
calculus, matrix algebra, complex variables, and numerical methods.
Most of this material can be found in texts entitled Advanced
Engineering Mathematics. The mathematics in such texts is truly
classical, having been available in its present format for many
years, if not centuries. The apprenticeship for working in the
field of classical applied mathematics is long and arduous because
the apprentice must master material from so many different
disciplines.
Twenty-first century software allows this apprenticeship to be both
shorter and more effective. Modern computer algebra systems can be
the tool of first-recourse for teaching, learning, and doing such
applicable mathematics. Software tools such as Maple, Mathematica,
MuPAD, and Macsyma implement nearly all the manipulations of the
undergraduate program in applied and engineering mathematics. The
time has come to use these twenty-first century tools for teaching
eighteenth and nineteenth century mathematics.
A complete post-calculus applied math curriculum in which a
computer algebra system is the primary working tool appears in [1].
In this text the software is not just an add-on to a traditional
by-hands pedagogy. Instead, the software is used as an active
partner in the student.s participation in applied mathematics.
We give two examples taken from [1], examples that show how use of
a computer algebra system enhances pedagogy. The purpose is not to
tout a particular book, but instead, to call attention to the
concept that a computer algebra system can, and should, be the
working tool for teaching, learning, and doing classical applied
math. So, rather than talk about this approach, we give two
examples and let readers judge for themselves the viability of a
curriculum predicated on the ubiquitous use of modern software
tools.
Maplesoft.com has many online seminars available.
An Introduction to Maple 10 (42 min)
Introduction to the Maplet Builder (7 min)
Advanced Engineering Applications with Maple (50 min)
Clickable Calculus (54 min)
Click Here to Download the Associated Maple Worksheet for
this Seminar
Maple T.A. Demonstration for Instructors (24 min)
Maple T.A. Demonstration for Students (13 min)
Maple T.A. for Blackboard. Software Demo (8 min)
Syntax-Free Computations in Maple 10 (65 min)
Control System Development Using System Identification (43 min)
Technical Solution Deployment Using MapleNet 10 (34 min)
Introduction To Global Optimization Toolbox For Maple (61 min)
Maple in the High School Classroom (10 min)
Modeling Multi-body Mechanical Systems With DynaFlex Pro (65 min)
Implementing Technology in the Modern Math Curriculum (60 min)
Many mathematics lessons are also available using Maple.
Algebra (44) Calculus I (102)
Calculus II (59) Calculus III (23)
Case Studies (4) Complex Analysis (67)
DE's (89) Economics (20)
Elementary School (9) Engineering (68)
Geometry (32) Linear Algebra (22)
Maple TA (5) MapleNet (2)
Maplets (4) Numerical Analysis (15)
Operations Research (1) Physics (88)
Precalculus (42) Quantum Mechanics (19)
Real Analysis (20) Statistics (36)
Trigonometry (4) Vector Calculus (99)
MapleTA is an online assignment and quiz system backed by the Maple
mathematics engine that allows questions to be graded using Maple
to match and evaluate student answers.
Many different question types are available including questions
generated by formula for random assignment to students (students
don't see the same questions, but the form is the same). Questions
can make use of physical units and error bounds. Maple graphs can
be included in questions for display or for interaction with the
student e.g. selecting an area of the graph or plotting points on
a curve. See http://maplesoft.com/products/mapleta/types.aspx.
MapleTA is available at UW on a trial basis. Please contact me if
you wish more information about using MapleTA at UW.
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Liaison Information
Please contact me if you would like further information. Paul Kates, Mathematics Faculty LT3 Liaison, pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x7047
This page is located at www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pkates/LT3/events.
More information about the services of the Centre for Learning and Teaching through Technology - LT3 is available at lt3.uwaterloo.ca/.
(1) More information about learning and teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, plus a description of the services I provide as Mathematics Faculty LT3 Liaison is available here.