Too bad the conference is in Washington DC....
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To enter the virtual room, please follow this link:
http://us.emeet
Your computer will need Java to open the Marratech client. If your computer does not have Java, you can download it from www.java.com.
Room will be open at 3:25, and you will be able to get in with the following username and password:
Username: Necklaces (case sensitive, so N, not n)
password: franklinrules
For further guidance going into the room, you can chat with me on Gmail:
See you at the demo!
But who is going to brave the T on a day like this, either coming back to BFIT in the afternoon, or, worse still, STAYING for evening tutoring and THEN walking the lonely South End streets to the Back Bay station, then transfer...
Forget it.
You are going home right now and not coming back into town, and if tutoring is needed those tutors can come chasing after. Well guess what: they can! and YOU CAN... cuddle up at home, pour yourself a cup or two of your favorite infusion, click on a few links, get the username and password of the day, and be present, virtually, in the same room as your tutor and fellow students.
Ah!, technology...
This is what Matt Toledo experienced today. And he was not being tutored on an easy topic either... try this one for size:
Calculate the area under f(x) = 3x - 4, by applying a limit of a summation as n (the number of rectangles) aproaches infinity in the interval [2,5].
Sounds like fun? Sure!.. it CAN be if you get tutored through Marratech: a virtual room environment where you have video, audio, chat and whiteboard.
To see screen captures of Matt's tutoring session and previous Marratech demos, please click into this Facebook album: marratech demos. (Let me know if Facebook gives you a privacy attitude when you try to view the album). Matt's scenes are the last three in the set.
For general information about Marratech, please check out their web site: www.marratech.com
Soooo... stay home and learn! The technology era has arrived, for your greater comfort.
And to expand gratification in a mathematical context, enhance your learning experience by a "factor of pi". No, not pi squared! More like round, as in ... APPLE PI e, ( :-)), right next to your whiteboard screen, perhaps with cream and a steaming hot cup of tea.
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True, no calls from Paris designers yet to mass-produce any of this, but I am still proud.
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These Got Mathport? signs posted around our building are a joint creative effort between the Math and Physics, Developmental and the Humanities departments. (Perhaps we should start an advertising agency???...)
Please feel free to comment on the variations of the copy as exhibited around campus.
The purpose of the campaign is to introduce some name recognition first, then develop content awareness in preparation for a program launch on January 28.
And YES, expect more signs next week...
Students and Faculty at the Institute are dispersing after the function at the auditorium. Student Jimmy Torres spoke on behalf of the Student Body and President Michael Taylor highlighted the personality of our founding mentor.
This is 2008, and so this is the 100th year of our existence as an educational institution in the heart of Boston.
An auspicious day of a remarkable year. Dates have that energizing aura, don't they? I often find myself making resolutions and plans, reviewing past performances, or carrying out other such time-mark prone activities whenever a significant date comes around, and today, for sure, is a high-class date.
This afternoon, we are having a meeting to plan the introduction of Mathport at BFIT. I don't know if Mathport will be remembered 300 or even 100 years from now... probably not; but we certainly will not be able to blame its non- longevity on chosing an inauspicious day to launch it!
Happy Birthday, Ben.
Happy hundred, BFIT.
Hello Mathport.
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