MATH 6397 - Summer 2009
M-Th 10:00-noon, 202 SEC

Instructor: Dr. Jeff Morgan, 651 PGH, 713-743-3455, jmorgan@math.uh.edu

Office Hours: 12:15 pm - 1:00, M-Th or by appointment.

Course Homepage: http://www.math.uh.edu/~jmorgan/Math6397

Information: The course will cover the use of technology in the modern classroom. Every student in the class will be loaned a laptop with all of the necessary software for the course. Topics will include:

• An introduction to PDF Annotator, Mimio notebook, OneNote, wincopy, Camtasia, and Wink 2.0.
• An introduction to the creation and online dissemination of streaming materials, through a standard web server or services like YouTube.
• Practical use of winplot, geogebra, Matlab, R, Excel, and some available JavaScript programs and Java applets.
• The use of Horizon Wimba to host live online sessions, and an overview of other available software.
• An introduction to simple programming in Javascript, Matlab and R.

The course will have a relaxed pace and will hopefully be fun. There will be assignments that will help you gain confidence using the different software, and hopefully you will find some of these tools useful in the future.

Text: None

Homework and Projects: Assignments will be given daily, and listed from the course homepage.

Exams: None

Final Exam: None

Grades: Grades will be determined by daily homework and projects.

Attendance is Mandatory!!

Whenever possible, and in accordance with 504/ADA guidelines, we will attempt to provide reasonable academic accommodations to students who request and require them.