webworkdocs News

New Server for the WeBWorK Home site!!

As partner of the Mathematics Digital Library (mathDL) and through the generosity of the Mathematical Association of America the hosting of the main WeBWorK site has now moved to http://www.maa.org/webwork .

The bulletin board has now been transfered from its old site at the University of Rochester to its new site at the MAA. We will slowly transfer additional material over to the new site. The new server and software will be faster and more stable and will allow for future growth. We will continue to maintain the old site until it is no longer needed.

WeBWorK Symposium

The WeBWorK Symposium, where we gather to eat, drink and discuss WeBWorK will be at the Cresent City Brewery at 527 Decatur Street from 5:30 to 7:30...or later. Some of us will meet at the message boards on the 4th floor of the Marriot at 5pm and start walking toward the brewery -- or you can join us there. Hope you can come, friends are welcome. It's about a five block walk along Decatur St. from Canal street where the Marriot is toward Jackson Square in the French quarter.

WeBWorK at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans -- January 5 - 8

There will be several WeBWorK related events at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans.

WeBWorK minicourse #6, Saturday, Jan 6, 1 -3 pm and Monday, Jan 8, 3:30-5:30 pm
Poster sessions: Saturday, Jan 6, 2 - 4 pm -- two WeBWorK projects (869 and 870)
"MAA Committee on Technologies in Mathematics Education Panel Discussion", Sat., Jan 6, 2:30 -- 3:50pm
"Assessing Student Performance in College Algebra with WeBWorK" -- Albert Candel, CSUN and Juana Sanchez, UCLA -- Mon, Jan 8, 2pm (1754)
"Using WeBWorK to foster reading.", George R. Exner, Bucknell University -- Mon, Jan 8, 1:45pm (1774)

and most importantly

The semi-annual WeBWorK Symposium*

Saturday Jan 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 or later at some convenient pub, bar and grill, or other eatery.

We expect to meet at 5pm near the message boards to walk to the establishment. We will post the location on the message board under WeBWorK on the message board as soon as we find somewhere appropriate.

All WeBWorKers and other interested persons invited.

* " a drinking party or convivial discussion, esp. as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato)" Origin: late 16th cent. (denoting a drinking party) via Latin from Greek... -- from the Oxford American Dictionaries. It's true that it's now the second definition, but the Greeks were first and it was their word.

WeBWorK in the Middle East

WeBWorK will be one of the technologies featured at the Learning Technologies and Mathematics Middle East Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman 31 March - 2 April, 2007. Michael Gage will be offering a workshop on using WeBWorK.

The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University.

WebWork Live CD available

Robert Molzon from the University of Kentucky has created and made available for download a WebWork Live CD.

The live cd is based on Knoppix 4.0. This CD will allow you to turn any x86 computer into a webwork server in a matter of minutes. It can be used as a demo, as a backup, or even as your main server. Since Apache runs in memory after starting, you should see very little if any slowdown in performance. For more information go to http://www.webwork2.ms.uky.edu/

The Live_CD page contains information on setup and download.

I have used this Live CD to turn a laptop into a full WeBWorK server for use in demonstrations. It is truely impressive that this can be done in a few minutes without installing any additional software.