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This is the home page for my credit by arrangement class, XML/IEEE SCORM Mathematics E-Learning Development (known to PSU as Math 401).
Instructors: Doug Christiansen, John Caughman.
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Schedule
Week 1 & 2 is the research portion of the project. The results of the research will be posted here pretty soon.
Week 3+ will be implementation - schedule to be determined.
Modules
To Do
- Complete Graph Theory module and at least one more. Some work is done on both Analysis and Number Theory, though it's hard to tell which would be easier to finish.
- Package them up as a SCORM module. This will be accomplished using RELOAD. They also make a SCORM player.
- Clean up this web site to be more of a formal presentation.
I currently don't think it's possible to finish 3 modules as I had originally planned, but I should have two done by the Friday of finals week (Dec 9).
About this Site
This site is running "wiki" software, which are usually used to facilitate the creation of community knowledge repositories. I will be using the features of the wiki system as a rapid development tool for presenting the information in this project.
This project will require a lot of online work (pretty much everything). The features of this system should help the project along. In particular:
- History
- Each page stores a log of edits. Old versions can be compared with current versions, or restored completely, etc.
- Comments
- Instructors can add comments about a particular topic without changing the contents via the discussion link at the top of each page.
- Expandability
- The functionality of MediaWiki is easily expanded by writing simple "extensions." (See: My MediaWiki Modifications)
Math Markup
Putting math on the web is hard. However, I've found a pretty easy way to do it with this site. But, a MathML browser is required to view it. Right now, that means Internet Explorer 6.0 w/MathPlayer, Firefox 1.0.7 (on Windows or linux), or Mozilla 1.3a+ on anything. See instructions for making MathML work.
Helpful Software
This section (will probably become it's own page) contains various software that may be helpful for creating a electronic math curriculum.
Dia is a GPL Visio clone. Helpful for creating and manipulating graphs. Update: 20-Oct Actually, not that helpful. The software is functional but the interface needs a bit of help! DIA for windows download
RELOAD is a SCORM editor. The 1.3.2 beta 2c version here is an update that adds some support for SCORM 2004. This is the tool that I will (most likely) be using to create SCORM modules.
More Software
KSeg is a Geometer's Sketchpad clone: http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/kseg.html
GRIN is a graph theory program: http://www.geocities.com/pechv_ru/load.html
SCORM Players
Math Tidbits
This section has nothing to do with the project. It's just a list of interesting math-related things on the internet.
Math Geneology Project - appears to be a list of "who taught who" in mathematical circles. They have listings of more than 90,000 mathematicians.
