ActiveMath Authoring and Discovery Tutorial Jan 30th - Feb 1st 2007

Dear ActiveMath interested,

our group will be organizing an ActiveMath authoring and discovery
tutorial on January 30th and Feb 1st 2007 at DFKI  in Saarbrücken, Germany.

This workshop will feature a strong authoring tutorial but will be based
on an active dialogue: expectations of each participants about the
ActiveMath learning environment will be discussed and approaches to
realize them in ActiveMath will be introduced and realized concretely.

It will provide participants with strong insights on the
usage and capabilities of ActiveMath as well as the authoring tools that
exist for it.

It is aimed at persons comfortable with the usage of web-browsers and
text-editors.

The workshop will start at 10:00AM on January 30th (with preliminary
set-ups) and end on Feb 1st at 15:00 after a presentation of the results.

It will be lead by members of the ActiveMath group with an
active involvement of each participant. The participation is free of
charge, in exchange, we expect this participation to be logged and
analyzed for evaluation purposes.

The participants are expected to:

    1. send us a mail of pre-registration until Jan 10th indicating their
       names and relevant capabilities (please include experience and
       names of relevant XML, text, html, TeX, Wikis, word-processing,
       RDF, concept-mapping, adaptive hypermedia, LMS, CMS tools)
    2. send us until Jan 15th about a page describing the content they
       wish be realized in ActiveMath, with the most amount of references
       and URLs, along with pointers to two e-learning environment demoes
       they find good.
    3. participate to the tutorial actively with concrete realizations
       and critiques of others' projects
    4. bring a laptop which is capable of running ActiveMath server (min.
       1GHz, and 512 Mb of RAM) with wifi card, having Mozilla 1.5 or
       later and a java development environment version 1.4 or later
       pre-installed

Linux desktops, with KDE environment, can be arranged to accomodate for
expectation 4).

Registration will only be accepted after the expectations 1) and 2) are
met. Doing this enables us to make sure that the system is ready to
accomodate such wishes. It has been our training experience that caring
for such in advance guarantees that small glitches are ironned out,
permitting, e.g., a new file-type to be properly served.

More details about the tutorial will be posted on:
        http://eds.activemath.org/?q=en/AuthTrain-Jan2007
Questions can be addressed to Paul Libbrecht, by email at
         paul@....
Please contact our secretaries, Irmtraud Stein or Astrid Thönes, for
help in finding accomodations in Saabruecken: stein@... or
Sek-DMAS@....

paul