Posted in Mathematics on March 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve said this to so many people here but I am "mentally saturated". I have too many new ideas that I’m worried I won’t be able to take any one of them and start using it. To alleviate this fear, I have documented as much as I can in several pages of scribbled notes. Over [...]
Posted in Mathematics on March 8th, 2008 5 Comments »
So here’s a quick overview of what I’ve done so far at ICTCM.
Friday:
1. First thing off the bat was the keynote address by Frank Hughes, Vice President for Training Products at Tietronix Software. We presented the idea of using immersive 3d environment to engage our students and deliver course content in a medium that matches [...]
Posted in Mathematics on March 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
Today has been a whirlwind of ideas and new technologies. I’ve learned a great deal and have a great deal to post (coming soon, I promise). Let me just post a quick note to say that I have been to 7 - 8 professional conferences and at every one up until today, I was an [...]
Posted in Mathematics, Technology on March 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I have elected to attend the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) this year. It will be my first time attending this conference. It takes place in San Antonio this coming weekend and I am really looking forward to it. I’ll be gone from Thursday, March 6 through Sunday, March 9.
ICTCM is for [...]
Posted in Mathematics on March 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
In both my Algebra course and Differential equations course, I have been stressing something called the "level of resolution" that goes in to setting up a mathematical model. When determining the components of the models, some assumptions must be made in order to translate the real world phenomena into a mathematical context. Changing the assumptions [...]