The presentations of the JEM activity

Symposium on

"Math tutoring: tools and feedback"
Heerlen, 18-19 September 2008

are now online.
The presentations can be found at the website
http://ideas.cs.uu.nl/wiki/index.php/Symposium

At the symposium both the technical as wel as the didactical aspects of
mathematical elearning and feedback tools have been discussed.

odt2dtbook has recently received the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Gold Award. This award recognises work carried out with Vincent Spiewak on the development of the odt2dtbook, an OpenOffice.org-writer “export to DTBook XML” extension (see http://chezdom.net/blog/?p=61). The story was published yesterday on Sun website: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/2008-0924/, including an interview of several winners.

Thanks a lot to the OpenOffice.org community and to Sun Microsystems. It means so much that an Assistive Technology project gets this kind of award.

JEM will exhibit at ICME 11, the International Congress on Mathematical Education, in its eleventh edition is to be held in Monterrey, Mexico, July 6 - 13, 2008. The JEM Thematic Network will have its own booth hosted by Mika Seppälä, Olga Caprotti and Ramon Eixarch and open during exhibition hours. This full-time activity will complement the JEM workshop that is part of the official ICME program. Come by and talk to us!

I'd like to invite you to participate in a little survey on mathematical knowledge items, possible issues with them, and how to solve issues. It will take around 10 minutes to answer the questions.

The results will be used in order to improve the mathematical argumentation ontology that is used in the semantic wiki SWiM and thus the assistance in tracking and solving issues there.

A new JEM brochure to be printed in color and folded in 3 is now available for download. Use it and distribute it at meetings and events when you want to advertise JEM.

SWiM, an OMDoc-based semantic wiki for mathematics, has been released in version 0.2.

New features are:

1. a completely redesigned and improved user interface, mostly thanks to the hard work Sebastian Schaffert did on IkeWiki

Early registration for the upcoming 3rd JEM Workshop and OpenMath Meeting ends tomorrow, 15 January 2008. To register, simply login to the JEM portal pages and signup for the event. If you are not a member of JEM, you will need to first create an account, and then you will be able to signup.

JEM partners University of Helsinki and Maths for More are representing the JEM Network with a booth at Exhibition of the ongoing Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. The Exhibition is open from 9:30 to 17:30 between January 6-9, 2008. As of today the number of registered participants exceeds 6000.

The living online documents for the deliverables D2.1 and D2.2 are currently open for comments. These deliverables sets the criteria for the public review evaluation of learning resources posted on the JEM portal.

The first public annual report of the activities of the JEM thematic network is now available to the public as deliverable 1.3.1. It was compiled based on the feedback received from the progress reports submitted by the JEM members.