opportunity to discover the work and joy of communicating their ideas in written form, and then getting feedback from others.
Most often public student blogs are done under a nickname and without any personal details, so that the incredible excitement that can come from communicating with a global audience does not place the student in harm's way
opportunity for the student to find a personal "voice" and to develop individual interests
difficult issues are exposed and dealt with in a transparent community of voices
This is a collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears. I'm collecting DVDs and VHS tapes of such movies. This is a working document to be extended over time. I started this page during spring break 2006. See also the page "Begin of lectures in college teaching" and "End of lectures in college teaching". To see the movies larger, watch the quicktime ipod version, which are files with .m4v extension.