How Do I Participate?
Do participants "meet" each other?
Each registered team is expected to work with a NET TEAM PARTNER (NTP),
either local, state, national, or international. Teams must discuss solution strategies and agree on the solutions they are going to post. A good measure of the success of the project rests on "grassroots" exchanges, when teams exchange personal/school/city information. Since the 1997-98 cycles, REGISTERED teams have been able to pair up with non-registered subscribers, expanding their reach.
How will the Internet be used?
The postings and some team exchanges will be made via MAJORDOMO a kind of
listserv (automated mailer.) The wonderful folks of the Geometry Forum at
Swarthmore College have made their list server available to MathMagic, and
as a result, registration will be fairly easy. However, most NTP exchanges
are done via e-mail outside the list.
Since one of the aims of this project is to acquaint K-12 educators with
the uses of the net, MathMagic is expanding its own homepage features,
joining the
graphics overlay that the World Wide Web has imposed on the Internet.
Registered teams will be able to access (via passwords) an area to set
up homepages within the project. This
way anyone with the proper connection to the Internet can look at pictures
of the schools, their logos and their teams. Schools with limited budgets/
connnectivity, can still participate and obtain most of the information
they need via text-only e-mail. Netscape (Mac/IBM) or any browser software will be used to look at
graphics and designs, but files will be made available via e-mail (There's
no URGENT need for a FULL Internet account.)
What is the procedure for participating?
There will be two broad categories of participants: REGISTERED and UNREGISTERED.
All registered teams will be entitled to full access to all of
the list's mailings, will have the ability to "post" to THEIR
list any question, comment or reply at any time, and will be able to upload their own pages. UNREGISTERED teams, on
the other hand, receive all mailings for their list and can read the exchanges,
but WILL NOT BE ABLE TO POST OR UPLOAD HTML directly to it. These teams, however, can work with REGISTERED teams and have their REGISTERED NTPs post the result of their work. In other words, subscribers
can only read while registered users can post messages and HTML, plus engage in
interactive dialog.
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