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Abstracts for Session 5
Friday, 1:45pm
- 5A. Martha Goshaw, Piedmont Virginia Community College,
Charlottesville, VA WORKSHOP: Activities/Explorations in
Calculus with TI-85/TI-92 [1 hr. 30 min.]
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will demonstrate activities and explorations she uses for several
topics in elementary calculus, including local slope, limits at points
of discontinuity, derivative tests, l'Hopital's rule, and Taylor
polynomials. This is not a keystroke workshop. The presentation is
geared toward college teachers of first year calculus or applied
calculus, and high school teachers of AP calculus. The presenter will
be using a TI-85 in the presentation, but any graphing calculator can
be used by participants.
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- 5B. Joe Yanik and Chuck Pheatt, Emporia State
University, Emporia, KS WORKSHOP: Integrating Java Into the
Mathematics Curriculum [1 hr. 30 min.]
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We will describe our latest efforts to facilitate the use of Java in
the teaching of mathematics. We will demonstrate some sample
mathematics activities along with our latest mathematical Java
components. These components, called JavaBeans, can be used by
mathematicians to create their own customized Java activities.
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- 5C. Judy Stubblefield, Garden City Community College,
Garden City, KS WORKSHOP: No HTML, No LaTeX, Just EXP 5.0 for
Internet Mathematical Document Preparation [1 hr. 30 min.]
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Creating mathematical documents for delivery on the Internet is often
cumbersome and time-consuming. But with the introduction of a free
student viewer, EXP 5.0 has come to the forefront. This presentation
will focus on the ease of learning this mathematical word processor.
Not only does EXP 5.0 contain many of the features inherent in word
processors like Microsoft Word, it has the added advantage of
imbedding graphics images as part of the document. The images can be
clip art, scanned from another source, imported from a Texas
Instruments graphing calculator, or imported through a digital
electronic notepad. Learn how to create a document with full
mathematical text and symbols, embed a graphic image, and upload it to
a web page. In addition to the software demonstration, see how easy it
is to create a web site by taking a "tour" through Web Course in a
Box. This software package is a web development tool to create
materials for a stand-alone Internet course or to supplement an
on-campus course. The "whiteboard" feature that comes with this
product is especially interesting and its use will be demonstrated.
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- 5D. Richard Delaware, University of Missouri - Kansas
City, Kansas City, MO Virtual Office Hours and More - Year One
of the University of Missouri System Project [45 min.]
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This talk will report on the first year of the 4-campus UM project
(first discussed at EXPO 1998) to provide live Internet online
mathematics tutoring for Algebra through Calculus courses using voice,
chat, and especially whiteboard software using a graphics tablet and
pen. The goal is to do this as simply and inexpensively as possible,
approximating an office visit with an instructor, and to meet student
demand primarily during evening and weekend hours. This report will
describe the web site we created [www.system.missouri.edu/mathcid/],
successes and pitfalls, actual usage statistics, the software used,
our rental of tablets to students, how we continue to simplify the
process, and more. Software discussed will include: NetMeeting,
NetTutor, and Visual Rendezvous. Finally, we'll discuss our future
plans, and how new Internet appliances may affect us.
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- 5E. Panel on Mediated Instruction ( also known as Computer Assisted Instruction) - Suggestions, Taboos,
Student Attitudes, Retention, and More
- Panelists
- Martha Haehl, Maple Woods Community College, Kansas City, MO
- Don Haussler, Kansas City Kansas Community College, K.C., KS
- Nic LaHue, Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, MO
- Linda O'Brien, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
The instructors on this panel have not all used the same software to
accomplish their mediated learning, but all have taught with it during
the last year. They are from four different colleges. Some use the
software on-site, and others via the web. The purpose of this panel
is not to compare the different systems used. (There are sessions at
the EXPO that demonstrate some of the systems.) The purpose of this
session is for the panelists to share what they have learned from
their experiences, what they would do the same, what they would do
differently. Included will be student attitudes, retention, students
for which this mode of instruction is appropriate or inappropriate,
testing on computer versus paper tests, other testing concerns and/or
suggestions, all computer instruction versus some teacher instruction,
surprises, and more.
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