[Ecoed] Article: creating mathlets with open source tools

[David Kirschtel]

Reference to the following article showed up on the Internet Scout  
Report (http://scout.wisc.edu/).

While strictly intended for maths education, the "toolkit" should  
also lend itself to teaching quantitative ecology methods as well.

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http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1574
Creating Mathlets with Open Source Tools
Markus Hohenwarter and Judith Preinder
Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (part of NSDL)

Abstract

Today's Internet provides a large number of freely available  
interactive materials for mathematics learning and teaching. Most of  
these mathlets are ready to use but not ready to be modified or  
extended. In this article we present a collaborative environment of  
open source tools around the dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra  
that gives educators the freedom to create new and modify existing  
materials in an online community. We describe how to do this based on  
design principles for multimedia learning and experiences from our  
work with teachers.