Rapid+Development+and+Sharing+of+Interactives

= = About the School of the Mathematical Future [|About P2PU.]

= Rapid development and sharing of interactives (GeoGebra, screencasts, Models for Math remixer) =

"Creating and Sharing Math Interactives" is a course aimed at anyone who ever had a question about math and wants to explore and answer the question in a visual and then AV format. For example: What is the largest triangle that I can get inside a circle? See: [] We will use the free and excellent math software GeoGebra, we will make screencasts using the freeware Jing and we will post our coursework on a free Wikispaces website and our resulting interactives on the Models for Math site geogebramath.org.
 * Course Summary:**


 * Learning Goals:**
 * One aim of this course is to both explore math topics that interest us by creating and using interactives and see how this exploring changes our perspective of mathematics. We will learn to use GeoGebra, which is incredibly intuitive and yet dynamic and powerful. We will choose questions that interest us and then make quick interactives that help us explore. We are not after the polished look, but rather the experience of learn-and-share understanding with our peers.
 * Another aim of this course will be to learn to create screencasts and/or videos to explain ourselves, our questions, our learning, even our confusion – every part of the mathematical experience and to discuss how this method of communication can truly enhance our understanding.

We tend to have been taught and/or to teach mathematics frontally – that is, more-or-less one directionally and with emphasis on the rules of composition rather than the music of mathematics. Our motivation here is to see whether and how we can use technology to change this approach.
 * Motivation:**


 * Audience:**
 * Creative, visual people who are interested in exploring the beauty and richness of math.
 * Teachers of mathematics and mathematicians who want to engage themselves and their students in understanding and relating mathematics to real and interesting explorations.


 * Note:**An essential component of this course is that each participant spends time thinking about the explorations from their own perspective and indeed from their varying levels of mathematical skill and understanding. Also, peer-support is a strong element of this course as students are expected to work together and provide support and feedback to each other.

Course leader Dr. Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska
Dr. Linda Stojanovska is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of St. Clement of Ohrid, Bitola, Macedonia. Although this will be her first p2p experience, she enjoys doing online workshops and webinars. Through mathfuture, she has done online workshops for learning the dynamic math freeware GeoGebra (Elluminate) and through Let’s Learn Together, she has done a webinar on effective methods of integrating technology both for synchronous (in the classroom) and asynchronous (online) learning. She works on the YouTube GeoGebraChannel and has made over 60 high definition captioned videos for this channel on using GeoGebra with tutorials, math challenges, tips,... Mostly she enjoys networking with teachers and students and working together with classroom teachers from across the globe taking their fantastic ideas/applets mostly from GeoGebra and developing and publishing them as free applet activities. She has 2 giant lazy dogs Nuki and Lucy and does jigsaw puzzles.

Contact information:

 * E-mail** lfahlberg@gmail.com