HERE'S A SPACE WHERE WE CAN POSE QUESTIONS AND/OR EXTEND THE CONVERSATION STARTED IN THE WORKSHOP

FROM RICK:  (he posted it in the commetns section off this page--have you all figured out where the comments are?)

I am particularly interested in the question of whether I can get Mathtype to work on a blog site. I have tried cutting and pasting from a word processing document. That simple fix doesn't work, at least in this comment box. Is it customary to need to save PDF documents and post that way? This session was a real highlight of the NAIS conference. I have already sent links to several of my colleagues at St. Mark's and find, to my delight, that a few had already begun to dabble. Social software presents exciting potential for our classes!

FROM BG: You should check out Darren Kuropatwa's blog, A Difference, for tons of ideas related to teaching math with social software.  I bet you could email him for advice, too.  You should be able to post on a wiki page just about anything.  Some people prefer to attach files, but many want everything right on the wiki.  You could also go to the HELP forum for PB wiki  (Link on the top right).

From Rick:  I have made some progress on this question of posting math equations and symbols.  I have not found a simple or elegant solution, however.  I'll try an example here.

The quadratic formula:  If then . 

That required constructing the two math pieces in Mathtype and using the "save as" option to create gif files.   Then I started writing, uploaded the first, wrote more and uploaded the second.  That's pretty intensive work for such a simple result.  The look is not as satisfying either, since the equations do not fit inline with text as well as they do in a wordprocessing document.  I have some hope of creating the whole  statement in  a word processing document and creating a gif file from that.  I am such a ludite that I don't know a simple solution for that either.  At least I feel like I am learning a lot!

In my efforts of last month, I was pretty close to using this method but must have been doing something wrong in the upload process.  In any case, this is a clunky solution, but it works. 

How about pdf files.  Are we restricted to attaching them to a blog or wiki?  Is there a more elegant solution for uploading the contents of a pdf file?