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=== Conference material ===
  
=== Conference material ===
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project description, dates and requirements
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* Project description, dates and requirements
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technical skills and knowledge to be covered:
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** Goals: 1. develop participants' technical skills to create and identify high-quality WeBWorK problems, 2. create a broadly useful and appropriate library of problems and homework problem sets for different undergraduate mathematics courses, and 3. frame and initiate the development of assessment and development tools for the existing WeBWorK National Problem Library (NPL)
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using the wiki, tutorials and resources
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** Dates: webconference dates:
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minimal background on problem authoring: provide template file, emphasize specific resources
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*** 1 - ; 2 - ; 3 - ; 4 -
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*** Carriage house dates: 23-26 June
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set up problem groups set up, provide work course in which each group can work
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** Requirements:
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set up a work model for creating problems: have a problem authored by one person, handed off for review and modification by another
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:# There will be some work to be done between the web conferences
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explore NPL, tagging, structure, provide base for critiques and directions for improvement
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:# Attend web conferences as much as possible
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* Wiki & Course: Go through exploring what we have for the wiki pages and work course <i style="color:blue">[Assign this to someone to block out and lead: Jason?]</i>
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* Set up problem groups, provide work course in which each group can work <i style="color:blue;">[We should be able to have the general course topics that we expect to use determined before we start.]</i>
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* Technical skills and knowledge to be covered:
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** Problem authoring tutorials and resources
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*** Basic editing: can we assume that everyone comes in knowing [http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Problem_Authoring_Background_Information Basic Problem Authoring]?
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*** [http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Category:Problem_Techniques Index of Problem Techniques]
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*** [http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/SubjectAreaTemplates Subject Area Templates]
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** Discussion of problem authoring, MathObjects and Context <i style="color:blue">[Assign this to someone to block out and lead: Jason? Paul? Mike?]</i>
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* Set up a work model for creating problems: have a problem authored by one person, handed off for review and modification by another <i style="color:blue;">[Assign this to someone to block out and lead: Jason? Paul? Gavin?]</i>
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* Explore NPL enough that participants can explore it to provide base for critiques and directions for improvement <i style="color:blue;">[Need presenter]</i>
   
 
=== Assignment for next web-conference ===
  
=== Assignment for next web-conference ===

Revision as of 09:56, 19 May 2011

Prep 2011 Main Page > Web Conference 1

Web-Conference 1: Introduction, background information

Date: Around May 26

Presenters: Jason Aubrey, Gavin LaRose, Paul Pearson?

Resources

Conference Problem Authoring Document

Need link to workshop WeBWorK server

Need sample WeBWorK course

Agenda

Conference material

  • Project description, dates and requirements
    • Goals: 1. develop participants' technical skills to create and identify high-quality WeBWorK problems, 2. create a broadly useful and appropriate library of problems and homework problem sets for different undergraduate mathematics courses, and 3. frame and initiate the development of assessment and development tools for the existing WeBWorK National Problem Library (NPL)
    • Dates: webconference dates:
      • 1 - ; 2 - ; 3 - ; 4 -
      • Carriage house dates: 23-26 June
    • Requirements:
  1. There will be some work to be done between the web conferences
  2. Attend web conferences as much as possible
  3. Attend Carriage House worksohp
  • Wiki & Course: Go through exploring what we have for the wiki pages and work course [Assign this to someone to block out and lead: Jason?]
  • Set up problem groups, provide work course in which each group can work [We should be able to have the general course topics that we expect to use determined before we start.]
  • Technical skills and knowledge to be covered:
  • Set up a work model for creating problems: have a problem authored by one person, handed off for review and modification by another [Assign this to someone to block out and lead: Jason? Paul? Gavin?]
  • Explore NPL enough that participants can explore it to provide base for critiques and directions for improvement [Need presenter]

Assignment for next web-conference

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