Session Schedule: MAA PREP Workshop

Summer 2012

Each day is a total of four hours online, broken into two 2-hour sessions. Please get set up in Blackboard Collaborate a few minutes before the start time, paying special attention to the guidelines (especially about your session name and headphones). We will post links to recordings of each session to the course email list shortly after the conclusion of the session.

Homework and Office Hours are listed after all the sessions.

Tuesday, June 26

Our goal on the first day is to get everybody comfortable enough in the notebook interface that they can begin to productively explore their own interests in Sage independently. So we will concentrate on basic use and the various ways to get help and learn more.

Questions are encouraged! With that in mind, note that we have ample time for addressing questions that come up during the presentations. You should feel free to message in Blackboard Collaborate anything that comes to mind, and we'll be sure to address as many as possible during the actual session.

Session I - Getting Started

Session II - More on getting started

Tuesday, July 10

Our goal on the second day of sessions is to start deepening your knowledge of Sage, and to give opportunities to share ideas about technology and how to use worksheets which you have.

Session I - Calculus

Session II - Plotting, Demos, and Programming

Tuesday, July 17

Our goal on the third day of sessions is to give more depth to how to use Sage in various areas one might teach. We also aim to continue giving some other demos, and to start exploring interactions with other open source software.

Session I - Getting In-Depth, Part 1

Session II - Getting In-Depth, Part 2

Warning: the final day's schedule is still tentative

Tuesday, July 24

Our goal on the last day of sessions is to consolidate our gains, give lots of opportunity to share your work, and address some final issues like setting up a server. We'll also have an opportunity for addressing things not already discussed.

Session I - Useful Advanced Issues

Session II - Participants Participate

Office Hours

Please connect as usual in Blackboard Collaborate, and give the organizer a minute or two to recognize you if there is nobody else around, or they are busy with someone else. ("Raising your hand" should provide an audible alert on the organizer's end.) See the guide for information on sharing your worksheet out via Blackboard Collaborate. This might be a useful way for us to help you with problems.

And of course feel free to ask any questions on the MAA list for the workshop, or support question on sage-support.

Date

Time (PDT)

Time (EDT)

Organizer

Friday June 29

9-11AM

12-2PM

Dan Drake

Thursday, 5 July

11-1PM

2-4PM

Karl-Dieter Crisman

Date

Time (PDT)

Time (EDT)

Organizer

Friday 13 July

9-10AM

12-1PM

Dan Drake

Monday, 16 July

12-2PM

3-5PM

Karl-Dieter Crisman

Thursday, 19 July

TBA

TBA

Karl-Dieter Crisman

Fri/Monday, 20/23 July

9-10AM

12-1PM

Dan Drake

Homework