Introduction to the Collaboration List
Tom Anderson (t-anders@cm.math.uiuc.edu)
Sat, 29 Mar 1997 12:28:37 -0600
Hello, I'm Tom Anderson. I teach high school math in rural Illinois. Over
the past two years we have been collaborating with the University of
Illinois, which is located about two-hundered miles away, to offer their
college level caluculus class to our senior math students. Our enrollment
is low enough that we will have years when not enough students sign up for
the fourth year math course to have the course get offered. The
collaboartion with the University of Illinois has allowed those seniors,
who are well enough qualified, to take the University's calculus class over
the Internet. As a result, instead of sitting out of math during their
Senior year in high school they take a college level math class and receive
college credit for that effort.
I will actually be attending the Professional Development meeting during
the conferece. I have worked with the University of Illinois on the
Teacher Math-Link program which provides distance education trainning for
math teachers over the Internet. I signed onto both the Collaboration List
and the Professional Development List to get additional background prior to
the conference.