Event+Organizers

=How to organize Math Future events=

toc Do you like to explore fresh new mathematics education projects? Can you walk peacefully among tribes at math wars? Is collaboration and collective action in online educator communities an important part of your life? Then you can receive keys to Math Future virtual realm and become an event organizer!

Minimal to-do list
If you are new at event organizing, just do these three quick steps:
 * 1) [|Join this wiki]
 * 2) Add your event's title, date and names to the Event List
 * 3) Ask someone you know among event organizers to help. If you don't know anyone, contact Maria droujkova@gmail.com

Full to-do list

 * **Calendar**
 * Add your event's name and time to the Event List. You need to be this wiki's member.
 * **Event description and notification**
 * Create a page on this wiki describing the event. You can use the event template you will see when you make a new page, or any other format.
 * Send information about the event to networks that will find it relevant. Consider using email lists, Twitter, Nings, wikis, Facebook and LinkedIn
 * Use [|http://tinyurl.com/math20event] for the event's url.
 * After the event, add the link to the recording to the event's page.
 * **Technology**
 * Test the platform you will be using ahead of time. It is better to test with a partner, or using two computers. Only use platforms that allow recording of events, and are free to use, and do not require massive software downloads.
 * If you use Elluminate
 * You need a moderator link to test our default Elluminate room. Register at [|Learn Central] to get a free vRoom for trying out the software. If you will host more than one event, talk to Maria droujkova@gmail.com about obtaining a moderator link.
 * Once you log into your vRoom, go Tools - Audio - Audio Setup Wizard to check your sound system
 * Try out the tools you are likely to use, especially Application Sharing and Web Tour, which are under the Tools menu

Event organizers

 * [[image:MariaD2_2009-100by100.jpg]] || **Maria Droujkova** is the founder of Math Future and the founder and director of Natural Math. Her research interests include Early Algebra, Multiplicative Reasoning, and social media in mathematics education. Maria organizes Math Clubs and other local math groups and events, and online networks.

droujkova@gmail.com Skype maria_droujkova Twitter [|@mariadroujkova] Phone 919-388-1721 ||
 * [[image:Math-2.0-organizers-Colleen.jpg]] || **Colleen King** develops math curricula for a K-12 learning center where she teaches math to students in grades 6-12. Colleen is very interested in programming and game design as they relate to learning and applying math concepts. Her students use LOGO, Scratch, Python, and Actionscript to explore everything from basic computation to geometry and algebra. Colleen also publishes the web site, Math Playground, which features math games, logic puzzles, problem solving, and instructional videos for elementary and middle school students.

[|Math Playground] ||
 * [[image:Math-2.0-organizers-IhorC2.jpg]] || A career mathematics educator **Ihor Charischak** recently retired from Stevens Institute of Technology still continues to pursue his passion of firing up teachers imaginations about how learning and teaching math with technology can be interesting, useful and empowering . Ihor has been leading projects dealing with technology applications in mathematics education at the Center for Innovation Engineering & Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens since 1990. He has more than 35 years experience as a classroom teacher and teacher educator. He is the founder of the Council for Technology in Mathematics Education (CLIME), an affiliate of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and has been active member on their technology committees. He has participated on the Editorial Panel for the NCTM 2005 Yearbook on technology and mathematics. He most recently managed a professional development project in Elizabeth, NJ where he worked with eleven middle schools to help strengthen teacher content knowledge and pedagogy as well as help them to align their textbook lessons with more engaging, technology based activities and projects.

Ihor@clime.org Twitter [|@climeguy] [|http://climeconnections.blogspot.com] ||
 * [[image:Math-2.0-organizers-SueV2.jpg]] || **Sue VanHattum** is the editor of the forthcoming book, //Playing With Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and the Internet//, which will include stories from many of your favorite math educators. She also teaches math at Contra Costa College, a community college in the Bay Area, runs a 'math salon' in her home in Richmond, California, and blogs at Math Mama Writes.

mathanthologyeditor@gmail.com ||
 * [[image:Math-2.0-organizers-LindaS2.jpg]] || **Linda Stojanovska** is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and the Head of Dept. of Applied Computer Sciences, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Univ. St. Clement of Ohrid, Bitola, FYR Macedonia


 * Her Mission:** To improve the image of mathematics among young people as both vital and understandable by developing effective, usable, free resources for mathematics education of all ages with a particular emphasis on integrating technology into the daily curriculum of mathematics education.


 * Websites**: [|http://math247.pbworks.com] http://geogebrawiki.wikispaces.com []
 * Other:** Head of GeoGebra Institute of R.Macedonia and head translator of GeoGebra into Macedonian (http://geogebramkd.wikispaces.com)

lindas@t-home.mk || For the past 25 years, I have taught mathematical art and other interdisciplinary courses in the Math Department. My colleague David Rosenthal and I co-designed a computer language called APGS (formerly SeeLogo), which is used in many applications, from designing scientific graphics to teaching geometry, statistics, and calculus. But as a committed humanist, I most enjoy soul-to-soul communication with students. APGS can be downloaded from [] It is an amazing language with little publicity.
 * [[image:Math-2.0-organizers-DaniN2.jpg]] || **Dani Novak** writes:

I wrote a book about Mathematical Art that uses APGS and is available freely on the web: []

novak@ithaca.edu || A mathematician, from the University of Lausanne and UQAM, Paul has been recycled into programming for mathematics on the web. Since 2000 he is in Saarbrücken, Germany, working on the ActiveMath learning environment and, since 2007, for the Inter2geo project. His research interests include information use and re-use for mathematical documents (semantic encodings, clipboards, authoring, sharing) and retrieval with a twist towards engineering for multiple cultures. ||
 * [[image:David-Weksler.jpg]] || **David Weksler** consults educators about educational technology and loves to help people learn more about computers and the Internet. ||
 * [[image:Paul_Libbrecht_FondZeroCoupe.jpg width="98" height="134" align="left"]] || **Paul Libbrecht**
 * [[image:CarolCross.JPG]] || **Carol Cross** is a homeschooling mom with a background in educational policy, philosophy, and social activism. ||
 * [[image:Bryan_London.jpg width="80" height="80"]] || **Bryan Alvarez** is a doctoral candidate of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley where he researchesthe brain mechanisms of synesthesia. He has been working on a number of educational and mentorship programs to empower people of all ages to join and contribute to the conversation of (scientific) discovery and creation. He co-founded Mind and Brain Outreach, a program that has brought graduate students into K-12 schools in the East Bay to reach over 2,000 students and parents. He is also working with the Undergraduate Journal of Psychology at Berkeley to reform their peer review and publication system to allow more students to have their voice heard to a wider scientific audience. Bryan recently co-founded the Human Atlas Project, a plan in early development to create an online immersive atlas of the human body that scales from organs to atoms, and shows active processes at all scales of size. The mission of this project is to celebrate the beauty of living systems, in an attempt to bring dignity to all species on the earth. ||
 * [[image:http://reformsymposium.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Picture-2-05-09-52.png width="96" height="131"]] ||< **Colin Graham** is a teacher, trainer, coach, linguist, singer, musician, composer, and arranger. He spent 10 years as a computer programmer and statistician before retraining as a secondary mathematics teacher. After returning from 11 years of teaching in Japan, he founded, and now moderates, #MathChat, an educational discussion that occurs twice a week on Twitter. Colin has presented about Twitter, differentiation and mathematics at several TeachMeets and online conferences. He is particularly interested in the integration of technology, both new and old, with effective methods of teaching and learning, as well as extending the reach and coverage of mathematics as part of a STEAM learning environment. Colin would like to change STEAM to MATES!

Twitter: @ColinTGraham Blog site: Sine of the Times: Dividing the Universe by Zero ||