Math 2.0 interest group events

The Math 2.0 interest group meets on Wednesdays in different venues. This Wednesday, July 29th, at 9pm Eastern time, we meet in Twitter. Use #mathchat hashtag to participate. The details and transcripts will be at the Math 2.0 wiki: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/July+29th+2009+Engaging+students+i...

This week's meeting, about discuss engaging students in online math courses, is hosted by Maria Andersen, or @busynessgirl on Twitter. Maria Andersen is a college math instructor at Muskegon Community College (in Michigan). She is also the CEO of Andersen Algebra Consulting LLC, an educational consulting business. Through the business, she does some contract work for textbook companies, educational software companies, and schedule speaking engagements. You probably have seen Maria's awesome site "Teaching College Math": http://teachingcollegemath.com/

If you want to receive more news about Math 2.0 interest group happenings and events, and talk about issues of mathematics and social media, we have just started a mailing list for it: http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/subscribe

Each host selects his or her online meeting venue for the evening. So far, we had "field trips" to Twitter and Elluminate, with Tapped In, WizIQ, Second Life and other interesting venues coming up soon, too. If you are interested in hosting a session, please let me know, or add yourself to the Event page: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events