Re: paper and web lessons

Elaine Foley (epfoley@dimacs.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 02 Apr 1997 16:08:21 -0500


Ethel,

The web-based lesson plans could be either, both or a mixture, depending
on what each teacher would like to try. Again, it's up to the
imagination of the teacher and the expertise of the Math Forum staff to
implement the teacher's ideas.

Elaine

breuche wrote:
>
> Chuck Biehl wrote:
> >
> > There has been a lot of conversation recently about the redunacy of some
> > of the lessons being developed, both by folks going for credit and those
> > not. Here's a way more of you can get involved and make our web site
> > much more functional as well as useful.
> >
> > Let me know whether material you are working on can be suited best for
> > paper lessons or if they could be used right from the web. Elaine has
> > agreed to get things going by opening up a strusture for our web site
> > that enables teachers to access both paper and web-based lessons. What
> > we want you to do is pick a venue and then polish your lesson for one
> > format or the other. We should be able to get most of this in place
> > before the end of May, as much of the material is already finished and
> > just needs to be formatted for the appropriate source.
> >
> > This is a chance for almost everyone to get invloved, both your great
> > lesson writers and you great web page writers.
> >
> > your input as to the major headings for the lessons pages is
> > appreciated. For example, we currently have Voronoi and Art Gallery and
> > then a separate one for Computational Geometry, which has sat empty
> > because of the redundancy. Something should go or be consolidated.
> >
> > Respond ASAP so we can get these things finished up to share with the
> > world. At the June follw-up, we can review and debut the entire project,
> > done collaboratively by the whole group. Thanks in advance.
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > L. Charles (Chuck) Biehl
> > The Charter School of Wilmington
> > (v)302-651-2727 (f)302-652-1246
> > http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~biehlDear Chuck,
>
> When you speak of WEB based lessons, are you saying that we would have
> students at computers interacting with whatever is at that site and
> doing "discovery" lessons or just "reading" about let's say Art Gallery
> Problems and their applications like a tutorial? Or would there be
> let's say Geometry Sketchpad scripts that could be activated to
> demonstrate a Voronai graph?
>
> Ethel