User talk:Christine
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---Hi Christine! This is Angela (and I'm the author of the page on the construction project that you commented on). I'm at Lesley University in Cambridge, so we are in the same state at least (Westfield is in Western Mass, right?) Angela 13:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
---Hi christine - I probably won't be in on Friday, as I am traveling to Seattle. My flight is leaving at 10, so I won't be there in the morning, but maybe the afternoon. Enjoy and good to get to meet you! Tami
---Hello, I guess I don't really get the concept of the "my talk" page... who is supposed to use/read this?User:Christine
Hi Christine. Welcome to the workshop wiki. Your user page looks great. This is your User talk page, which you can see by clicking "my talk" in the links at the top of the wiki page. When someone writes to your talk page, you get an automatically generated email alert from the wiki server, so it's a convenient way to communicate with other participants in the workshop. You can respond on this page, and hope I look back at it, or you can respond on my user talk page so that I'll get an email. Obviously, you could just send me an email, but doing it this way leaves a public record and doesn't require you to know my email address.
A technical point: When you link to your off-wiki homepage, you put it in two brackets, which isn't right. Two brackets are for links to pages within this wiki. Here's how an off-wiki link can look:
- Double brackets: [[1]] (yuck!)
- Single brackets: [2]
- Single bracktes with an alternate name: Christine's Home Page
- No brackets: http://www.wsc.ma.edu/renesse
(edit this page to see exactly what I did for that).
A big audience for this material seems to be math for people going into K12 education - Anneke taught a course here at SLU using the Escher stuff for our ed majors. Hope this workshop gives you a lot of ideas!
Bryan 21:31, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Christine. Welcome to our workshop. We used to have an informal geometry course just for elementary ed majors, but after we developed the Math and Escher course the education department decided that this course meets their needs. As a result we have the ed majors sign up for the course. We usually have 5 to 6 per class of 18 students.
The education students don't always understand the pedagogy used and can be a bit resistant to it. I have found that having the students mixed in with the general student population helps. Students do seem to respond well to having projects as assignments. We can talk about this some more during the workshop, or start a discussion about this topic on the discussion page. I have a feeling this is of general interest to many. Barta 12:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
