I am thinking that it would be good to promote registration of new content to the JEM repository by suggesting a specific topic for which we call for learning objects. View it as an opportunity to select your best material and to share it and make it available to everyone. It is also an inspiration to try out some technologies on new topics.

The way this can work, inspired by the contests on Flickr, is the following:

1. Someone suggests a topic, say "Geometric Series" by opening a new forum post and giving an upload deadline.

JEM is going to be present at the forthcoming Fifth Nordic Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, to take place in Copenhagen on April 21-25, 2008. A special theme on Mathematical e-content: expressing, manipulating and retrieving mathematics online features speakers belonging to the JEM Network. This session is provisionally scheduled for Thursday, April 24, 13.30-14.30. If you are in Copenhagen, drop by.

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.

The workshop focuses on the didactics and technologies related to web-based interactive mathematics, math typesetting, e-learning and scientific communication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Mathematical and Scientific e-learning
• Markup languages, e.g. MathML and SVG
• Online Mathematics by CAS and DGS

Web page of the workshop

Call for Papers

TYPES topical workshop "Math Wiki"
EDINBURGH, Wed 31 Oct - Thurs 1 Nov, 2007

A meeting to discuss ideas supporting large scale formal mathematics:
Libraries, searching, web interfaces, notation,
collaborative working, use of large scale computing resources, etc.

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