PhD Diaries on Mathematical Dialogues

from university of massechusetts

posted by LHL @ 10:57 AM 0 comments

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~rayner/ Dr Rayners home page

posted by LHL @ 10:53 AM 0 comments

eye movement tracking lab with Dr Rayner useful contact?

posted by LHL @ 10:49 AM 0 comments

Early evening now on Tuesday

am - PDS / C++ workshop studetn asks for reference will come in tomorrow
lunchtime: Blackboard 6 presentation with Graham Alsop - some good new stuff but not enough improvements

Meeting with Steve and Dominic - PhD Network group then went round new building treated like royalty!!.
Did nothing on Phd except network meeting.

Need to chase up Paul T who had not had my email of plan. Urgent now to get Mathtype!!

posted by LHL @ 5:24 PM

Did nothing explicit on PhD but got some details organised - bloody paperwork!!!

posted by LHL @ 3:43 PM 0 comments

Now late afternoon.
Done so far:
1) wrote to Paul Topping for copies of Mathtype
2) Mailed the beta testing agreement to Chris Grant at Wolfram waiting for info on Publicon software
3) Did loads of emails
4) Contacted Demetra to say thanks for copy of bid
5) Andy said they didn't get the money for his bid
6) Spoke to Ed Whitehead about Mathtype software for MSC module on usability
7) Put my name down for the above module
8) talked to Andy and lads in office about putting Publicon on machine - get imaged first. Also mathtype in network (Kevin someone and Adam someone).
9) replied to business school studetn Krupa patel about LMS, Gay Caine about maths in schools
10) sent info about research to keith grieves.
11) Said hello to Chris and janet. Saw Marion Webb at lunch in Picton Room
12) Chased up Paolo about marking scheme for PDS assignment 2 - I now have it.

posted by LHL @ 3:41 PM 0 comments

Oh yes - I remember - click on settings on the toolbar top left. It is there somewhere!

posted by LHL @ 1:37 PM 0 comments

at last - at the bottom of the info about my pages is the bit where you can add links
Go to the page to edit my blog on line and then - well I found ot from there but dont know where to look now again!

posted by LHL @ 1:30 PM 0 comments

Spent ages looking for that toobar and editing add in to get this Blog on my laptop too.
Still haven't found it!
Also - spent last 2 weeks on holiday over Easter working in the garden and going to gardens - Wisley and garden centres etc.
Mum stayed and this made it extra tricky as she kept forgetting her special glasses on sunny days.

posted by LHL @ 1:26 PM 0 comments

Book from Stuart : TEACHING UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS. Eds Bob Burns, John Appleby, Philip Maher.
Copied some pages - looks useful for projects with Val and Penny.

posted by LHL @ 10:36 AM 0 comments

Found this useful item on teaching techniques

Learning Through Writing
A Compendium of Assignments and Techniques
- Dalhousie University -
http://www.dal.ca/%7Eoidt/ltw.html

posted by LHL @ 8:52 AM 0 comments

I got the idea to do this BLOG from here:
Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine All About E-Learning

posted by LHL @ 10:39 AM 0 comments

glish.com : CSS layout techniques : 3 columns, the holy grail
Useful example and tutorials on CSS layout 3 columns

posted by LHL @ 10:13 AM 0 comments

Welcome to my PhD diaries started 9th April 2003
This should be a record - if I fill it in - of my work on mathematical dialoges on line.
Today I am filing various papers and reading a book on mathematics and multimedia by 2 US maths teachers - only just started.
I also need to set up some videoing sessions - get in touch with various schools to get permission.

posted by LHL @ 9:22 AM 0 comments