[Edu-sig] Math 2.0 online live series: June overview

[Maria Droujkova]

Join these free, open, weekly live online events at Math 2.0 interest group
and meet other interested educators, parents, developers, and community
leaders for an hour of an intense discussion.

June 5th, 2010, 2pm ET. Host: Julie Harland, Mathematics Professor at
MiraCosta College and creator of hundreds of math videos at YourMathGal.com
You can ask Julie questions about her projects, as well as using screencasts
in your work and online education in general.

June 9th, 2010, 9:30pm ET. Host: Peter Gray, Professor of Psychology at
Boston College, blogging at Psychology Today's Freedom to Learn. Peter will
talk about his blog, and in particular two widely resonating posts about
mathematics: the Benezet experiment, and a family learning philosophy called
"unschooling." You can also ask Peter questions about his research of
Sudbury schools.

June 19th, 2010, 2pm ET. Host: Kalid Azad, creator of InstaCalc, and blogger
at BetterExplained. We will talk about the meaning of math insights ("a-ha
moments") and interactive ways of sharing them online. People interested in
the development of lightweight, embeddable math widgets can also ask
questions about InstaCalc.

June 26th, 2010.  Host: Ryan Goble, teacher mentor at South Bronx, graduate
student at Columbia University, and creator of Making Curriculum Pop - a
resource-sharing community for educators interested in better practices and
teaching with pop culture. Ask Ryan about building educator communities,
online learning, and using culture at large as the classroom.

To join the weekly events, follow this link in your browser to a virtual
room that opens half an hour before each event:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27

More details about the upcoming events, and full recordings of past events,
are at the Math 2.0 wiki: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com

Make math your own, to make your own math.
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