Re: Washington DC Area Mathematica Special Interest Group
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- Subject: [mg105559] Re: Washington DC Area Mathematica Special Interest Group
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:42:16 -0500 (EST)
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I stumbled on your group awhile ago searching for Mathematica related goodies. I really wish something like this was available close to home... 1. How many regular members do you have? 2. Typical attendance? 3. Do regular members pay fees to belong? 4. Is there anyway you'd consider using Adobe Connect to broadcast the meetings live? Or maybe, as an easier alternative, you could standardize a system for presenters to video screen-capture their presentations and then post them on the net. If you're interested, I have some web space available and would also be willing to re-compress and package the raw video in Microsoft Silverlight. I started using Expression Studio (encodes Silverlight) last semester to process lectures from my tablet pc. Also experimented with students grading their own quizzes, along with quizzes of a few other randomly selected students, as they watched a video of me working through the answer key and grading rubric. I would have used Adobe Connect for the class, as it's worked well in the past, but our campus' Connect server wasn't keeping up with demand. If they've upgraded it, that may be another option. For a simple example of the Silverlight packaging, here is a short video on dogs: http://ryangorka.com/311Videos/Dogs/default.html (Watch the whole thing if you have time, it's really cool.) -RG