Sage Education Days 4

The fourth Sage Education Days will be held in conjunction with Sage Days 41, at the University of Washington in Seattle, June 13-15, 2012.

Funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education.

Organizers

• Rob Beezer http://buzzard.ups.edu

• William Stein http://wstein.org/

Participants

To register, please add yourself alphabetically by last name. You need to request a Trac account to be able to login to the wiki - you can do that by following the instructions at the top of the page located here. As a last resort, email Rob Beezer at beezer@ups.edu and he'll add your name (please include a relevant web link, if available).

1. Barry Balof (Whitman College)

2. Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound)

3. Brad Burkman (Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts)

4. Bruce Cohen (Lowell High School)

5. Tom Judson (Stephen F Austin State University, Texas)

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

7. Jane Long (Stephen F Austin State University, Texas)

8. Susan Lynds (University of Colorado)

9. Manouchehr Misaghian (Prairie View A & M University, Texas)

10. David Perkinson (Reed College)

11. Rao Potluri (Reed College)

12. William Stein (University of Washington)

Funding

We only have enough funding for participants from the test sites for the NSF UTMOST project and for a few "outside" speakers. The concurrent Sage Days 41 workshop has ample funding for those interested in working all week on projects related to the notebook. However, anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is welcome, and encouraged to attend.

Mailing Lists

• The mailing list for Sage Days 41, will be used for Education Days also (once created). 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.

Schedule

Blog Roll

Tom Judson

Topics

Logistics

• June 13, 14 and 15 are expected to be full days. So plan to travel on June 12 and June 16.

• Sage Days 41 will happen the same week at the University of Washington with the Sage Notebook as its theme.

• Lodging: arrangements TBA here.

• See the local information page for more specifics.

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

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.

• (wstein): Work on my free open Sage book: http://code.google.com/p/sage-power-book/

• 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

UW Campus Wireless

TBA

Pictures

Previous Sage Education Days

• Sage Education Day 1 (December 5, 2009)

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

• Sage Education Days 3 (June 16-18, 2011)