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Work Plan
Collection Activities
- Before Official Proposal Approval
- - Finalize approval to use major collections (TI, Shodor, Utah State).
- - Find a few high-quality reviewers through personal contacts, College Board workshops, TI, etc.
YEAR 1
- Spring Semester, 2003
- - Forum staff begins developing Audition Tool and Reviewer Guide, working with first reviewers.
- - Reviewers begin reviewing and also working with staff to refine Audition Tool and Reviewer Guide.
- - George Reese begins research article reviews.
- - Identify workshops where we can show our material, find teachers, get professional development providers involved.
- - Send notices to appear in journals, web sites, timed for announcement of pilot site.
- April, 2003 NCTM meeting
- - Launch pilot version of site, publicize site, look for reviewers.
- - Begin campaign for teachers to send tool nominations, user reviews.
- Summer, 2003
- - Hold first Summer Workshop for teachers and developers.
- - Use Audition Tool and Reviewer Guide to develop corps of reviewers by mid-summer.
- Fall, 2003 and throughout rest of project
- - Continue with review activities already begun and to recruit new reviewers.
YEAR 2: 2004
- April, 2004 NCTM meeting
- - Official launch of Math Tools site. Target date to finish searching for and reviewing main collection of tools.
- Summer, 2004
- - Concentrate on community building aspects of site and teacher-developer work.
- - Hold second Summer Workshop for teachers and developers.
- Fall semester, 2004
- - Make presentations at NCTM regional and other meetings.
- - Continue reviewing, recruiting, and finding new tools.
User Activities
YEAR 1
- Before Official Proposal Approval
- - Begin informal search for facilitators to lead the 5 content strands, 9 courses, and the overarching community.
- - Work with handheld manufacturers to find appropriate facilitators and leaders.
- - Develop agreements with manufacturers to provide special help desks where users can go with technical problems.
- - Use personal contacts to find computer software developers to act as facilitators and leaders. Aim for experts in applets, java script, Flash.
YEAR 2: 2004
- Spring Semester, 2003
- - Continue recruiting facilitators, also tPOW constructors, tT2T resource persons, and other group leaders.
- - Work with facilitators to accommodate various teacher categories: o those new to technology o more experienced technologists o pre-service o in-service.
- - Look for professional development workshops and other venues where we can show our material and recruit leaders.
- - Plan the construction of tPOWs with appropriate Forum staff and problemists.
- - Start Developer's Page and pages for each handheld and relevant programming language. Look for situations where developers can share programming tools.
- - Start on student and parent portals.
- - Develop pilot version of overall site.
- April, 2003
- - Demonstrate pilot site and use the NCTM meeting to further our aims, above.
- - At NCTM meeting, T^3, ICTCM, etc. work to get developer and design team discussion and demos.
- - Begin monthly discussion of research articles.
- - Finish startup version of student and parent portals before summer.
- Summer, 2003
- - Revise pilot site on the basis of teacher and other feedback.
- Fall Semester, 2003 and throughout rest of project
- - Give talks, demos, workshops at NCTM regional meetings.
- - Continue to recruit facilitators, revise site, and engage users in community.
- Spring, 2004
- - Work toward launch of official site.
- April, 2004
- - Officially launch site at time of NCTM Annual. The basic collection will be in place.
- - Concentrate on community building and teacher-developer work.
- - Have developer and design team discussions and demos for NCTM meeting.
- Summer, 2004 and throughout rest of project
- - Revise portals based on feedback.
- - Work with professional development workshops, teacher workshops, (including our own) to use Math Tools.
- - Continue to recruit facilitators, revise site, and engage users in community.
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