Community

This Library is not a simple collection of books. It is a meeting place for like-minded teachers and learners where we hope to brainstorm and to explore together some of the amazing possibilities for technology in education that are just now unfolding. These conversations can happen in our threaded Discussion Forum. We would very much like to hear your ideas, and to share our thoughts with you. So please feel free to start a thread, or to respond to someone else's message.
A Library has different uses for different people. Students will use it in one way, and teachers will use it in another. But teachers are often students, and students are sometimes teachers, so the lines are fuzzy. Independent learners (Home Schoolers, for example) form a third component of our community.
We do not really know in what ways communication among the members of the Library Community will prove useful, but we would very much like to support it. And our Threaded Discussion Forums can be the vehicle for that. We have five forums at present in our Discussion Room. They range from topics such as The Library WorkBooks, Home Schooling, 3D Graphics, Java, and Interactive Mathematics. The "WorkBooks" Forum is an obvious place for anyone with a question about a WorkBook to ask it. It is also a place to make suggestions for improvements in current WorkBooks or suggestions for new ones.
Many students come to Mathematics Sites for help with their homework. This is obviously not the place for that, but general questions on mathematical topics are welcome, and, with a fairly even mix of teachers and students in our community, it would seem that there can be a nice opportunity to exchange ideas, possibly to teach and to learn, via conversations that might happen here.
On a different note, we keep a list of the number of checkouts of all of the WorkBooks in the Stacks. The list is ordered from the most popular WorkBooks to the least popular. The number of checkouts is a current, up-to-the-minute report, and so you can decide whether you want to go with the crowd, or ... take the road less traveled. You can view that list in the Stacks, or you can see it now if you click here.

Students: Please visit the Student Center to get oriented.
Teachers: Please visit the Teachers' Lounge to learn about our support for web courses.
New Visitors to the Library: Please visit the Registration Desk. We would like to know who you are.

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