News from TMP - 12 July 1995 ---------------------------- Dear All, Here are some items of news for the MAY-JUNE period. This mailing list has been compiled from people making direct enquiries to TMP, and from email addresses left in the FTP logfile; if you don't wish to receive any further mailings, please let me know [p.kent@ic.ac.uk]. Previous newletters are stored at . INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICA SYMPOSIUM, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 16-20: If you are going to this conference please come along to our presentation given by Phil Ramsden (scheduled for Session 1A, July 18, 08.30-10.30): "Mathematica for valuable and viable computer-based learning". EVALUATION REPORT AVAILABLE: The Evaluation Report, prepared by Dr Richard Noss of the Institute of Education (University of London), which analyses the outcomes of our major trials in Autumn '94, is now available at: http://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk/articles/EvaluationReport.html and in Word-for-Macintosh format at gopher://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk:70/00/project/Docs/EvaluationReport.hqx and in Word-for-Windows format (self-extracting PKZIP archive) at ftp://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk/project/Docs/evalrept.exe DISCUSSION GROUP FOR MATHEMATICA AND HTML: You are invited to join the recently begun WWWMath discussion group, dedicated to all aspects of the interconnection of the Mathematica system with the World-Wide-Web. The group home page at URL http://www.wri.com/WWWMath.html contains info on how to subscribe, full details on the intentions of the group, a mail archive, and a growing index of interesting internet-accessible resources world-wide. "WHY WE SHOULD BE USING WORLDWARE IN COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING": This new article written by my good self may be browsed and downloaded at: http://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk/articles/Worldware.html It appeared in print in the Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Maths and Statistics (see http://www.bham.ac.uk/ctimath/ for info). FEEDBACK: We appreciate very much all comments and suggestions about our materials, be they good or bad, superficial or profound. If you do download and look at our stuff, please spend a few minutes collecting your thoughts, pressing computer keys, and sending the result to us (tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk). It is important for us to be able to show our paymasters that we do have some "customers" out there. OUR ADDRESSES ------------- Phillip Kent, Phil Ramsden and John Wood, Transitional Mathematics Project, Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ. Tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517. E-mail: tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk . Gopher and FTP to: othello.ma.ic.ac.uk (155.198.192.26). World-Wide-Web at URL http://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk/ . Please send *technical* questions about WWW/gopher/ftp and the TMP software direct to p.kent@ic.ac.uk .