Sage Education Days 3

The third Sage Education Days will be held in conjunction with Sage Days 31, at the University of Washington in Seattle, June 16-18, 2011.

Funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education.

Schedule

Topics

• Tutorials and Teaching Experiences
  • Single Variable Calculus
  • Multivariate Calculus
  • Linear Algebra
  • Abstract Algebra
  • Number Theory
  • Numerical Analysis
• Authoring Materials
  • SageTeX
  • Textbooks
  • Worksheets
  • Interacts
• Notebook Improvements
  • In consultation with onsite notebook developers
• Personal Projects
  • There will be abundant time to work on your own projects

Participants

1. Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound)

2. Bruce Cohen (Lowell High School, San Francisco)

3. Karl-Dieter Crisman (Gordon College)

4. Eva Curry (Acadia University)

5. DanDrake (KAIST, South Korea)

6. Michael Garcia (San Francisco State University)

7. Jason Grout (Drake University)

8. Jason B. Hill (University of Colorado)

9. TJ Hitchman (University of Northern Iowa)

10. Edgar Jasso (North Seattle Community College)

11. Tom Judson (Stephen F. Austin State University)

12. Kiran Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego)

13. Benjamin LeVeque (Brown University, undergrad)

14. Jane Long (Stephen F. Austin State University)

15. Michael Pearson (MAA, Washington, DC)

16. David Perkinson (Reed College)

17. Wai Yan Pong (California State University, Dominguez Hills)

18. Rao Potluri (Reed College)

19. John Perry (University of Southern Mississippi)

20. Philip Robinson (Western Washington University, Undergrad)

21. John Travis (Mississippi College)

22. William Stein (University of Washington)

Organizers

• Rob Beezer http://buzzard.ups.edu

• William Stein http://wstein.org/

UW Campus Wireless

UW NetID:       event0896
Password:       kfeu:xsuo:kzoo

Mailing Lists

• Mailing list for Sage Days 31, which will be used for Education Days also. Please add yourself to this list if you are not already on it. This will be the primary vehicle for announcements, and last-minute changes during the week.

• There is also a list specifically for discussing education and Sage.

IRC

• There is an IRC channel for sage days: #sagemath-days on irc.freenode.net. Feel free to join to discuss whatever... For those without IRC clients, http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sagemath,sagemath-days

Funding

Participants from the test sites for the NSF UTMOST project will have first priority for funding, though we will support travel for a few participants with a demonstrated interest and experience in using Sage in educational settings. We also expect to have a similar workshop in Summer 2012 which will have twice the available funding.

Registration

Sign up by adding your name to the "Participants" list above. Email Rob Beezer at [email protected] if you'd rather not figure out how to edit the wiki page and he'll add your name.

Logistics

• June 16, 17 and 18 are expected to be full days. So plan to travel on June 15 and June 19.

• Sage Days 31 will happen the same week at the University of Washington with the Sage Notebook as its theme.

• Sessions will be held in Savery Hall on the historic Quad, just northeast of Red Square. Specifically, Savery 156 (ROOM CHANGE as of Wed).

• Lodging will be arranged for funded participants at the Collegiana Inn near the UW campus. For other lodging options see the local information page.

• See the local information page for more specifics.

Projects

Sage Days typically allow a great deal of unstructured time to work on projects, either in groups or with the assistance of experts that are available. Please plan to have a project to work on. Examples could be:

• Learning a new area of Sage in preparation for teaching a course.
• Preparing worksheets for a course.
• Learning how to create interacts for the Sage library.
• Learning how to contribute new code to Sage.

• (added by wstein): Work on my free open Sage book: http://wstein.org/books/sagebook/

• Documentation and stability of implementation for using Sage in Windows
  • difficulty of transferring files between Windows and virtual machine?
  • people: John Perry, Jane, (Karl-Dieter), Jason G., Rob, William
• Sage branded 3-D glasses
• Organization of Sage educational resources
  • rating of worksheets?
  • tagging, organization of available options
  • suggestion from chemistry: set up committees to curate resources so that faculty get service credit

Career Advice Related to Trying New Things Before Tenure

• Prepare your dean/department head beforehand (thanks to Arnold Lebow, related by Jason):
  • what you're trying (and why)
  • how students might respond (and why)
  • how they can respond to student comments
• Prepare your students (suggestions from Eva):
  • Explain that you are trying something new and/or different.
  • Explain why, discuss (potential) advantages and disadvantages.
  • Obtain appropriate feedback from your students: standardized end-of-semester student evaluations don't always ask detailed enough questions or questions that are sufficiently relevant to evaluate the success of your new method, so have students complete an additional evaluation form that solicits feedback specific to your goals.
  • Consider obtaining feedback from the students at multiple points during the semester, and build this into the course design. This has two advantages:
    • It allows you to address major student concerns early on before they become problems.
    • It reminds students of the goals of your course (that may differ from their assumptions or expectations for courses in general) at multiple times during the semester.

• "With Friends Like These..." Wm. David Burns, P.I. of SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities)

Previous Sage Education Days

• Sage Education Day 1 (December 5, 2009)

• Sage Education Day 2 (February 24, 2010) (and in French)