Getting Started Using the PCMI@MathForum Site

We started creating the PCMI@MathForum site during the summer of 2001. We continued by adding a section during the summers of 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. We will be building the 2011 section this summer as you participate in the Secondary School Teacher Program.

How can you use it while in Park City?

• Check Carol's Morning Announcements
• Check the Daily Schedule
• Connect a face to a name: Portraits [behind password]
• Access the Class Notes
• Watch as links to photos appear on the 2011 Photos page!
• Send a Note to Suzanne and Richard if you need to let them know something.

How are Ning: PCMI 2011 and PCMI@MathForum and IAS/PCMI each important?

Each of them serve an important function and you should be familiar with each website. Here's one way to think about the three sites:

Ning: PCMI 2011

a social network - friendly and informative for the moment

PCMI@MathForum

used to document the work done during the Institute but also as a result of the Institute

IAS/PCMI

the official site of the Institute for Advanced Study where you will find information not only on the Secondary School Teachers Program but also the other PCMI programs

What can you get familiar with while in Park City?

• Get to know your working group's pages:
      Reasoning and Data and Chance
      Exploring Discrete Mathematics
      Investigating Geometry
      Implementing Lesson Study
      Visualizing Functions
      Learning about Topology

  Use the link to Working group roster to remember names. (or, actually, Ning PCMI 2011 might be better for this!)
  Review what you did in your afternoon sessions.
  Look for links Suzanne and Richard add to the Weekly reports.
  Use the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and/or 2010 links to view work previously done.

• Site Map - get a sense of the full site
• Participant Reflections on PCMI - we may draft new reflections on Ning PCMI 2011 and then Suzanne will add them to the PCMI@MathForum page!

What are some features we'll start using while in Park City?

• Ning: PCMI 2011
• Discussions [username/password required]

What are some features that will be handy once you are back home?

• E-mail addresses [behind password]
• Participant Outreach Activities
• Project Abstracts

PCMI@MathForum Home || IAS/PCMI Home

© 2001 - 2013 Park City Mathematics Institute IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute is an outreach program of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 Send questions or comments to: Suzanne Alejandre and Jim King

With program support provided by Math for America

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0314808.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.