WeBWork Presentation

As promised, here are the slides of Djun's presentation on WeBWork :

- PDF : WeBWorK_Online_homework_Survey.pdf,
- KeyNote Presentation : WeBWorK.key.

I also encourage you to have a look at Djun's blog : http://teaching.puregin.org.

The next teaching seminar will be on Thursday 25th. Joanne Nakonechny from Skylight will talk about assessment and evaluation. Mark your calendar!

A virtual Tutoring Centre

Just coming back from Jun Kim's talk at the Lunch Series for Teaching & Learning (I hear his presentation will be posted here soon). I'm all excited by a new idea that was discussed briefly during the question session that I want to share and discuss here: the creation of a chat room where students could ask Grad TAs their questions. This would act as the virtual equivalent of the current Tutoring Centre.

First draft of the idea: have one or two Grad TAs logged in a chat room at any given time between 9am and 5pm.

Possible improvements to think about:

- Have the chat room be available later in the night (say until 9pm for example). I don't know if this is even possible, but it might prove very popular to the students.

- Having access to a script that can read LaTeX would prove very useful.

I'm really interested to know if I'm the only one thinking this is a great idea. If so, I'll try to make this a reality for the coming Fall term.