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Sample Syllabus

This is a sample schedule for the Technology in the Geometry Classroom course, adapted from the schedule used in Winter quarter of 1996. Each class is expected to last at least three hours.

Class 1

Technical Information How to use Netscape. Creating a simple Web document. How to read and send email.
Lab Introduction to the World-Wide Web, Introduction to the Geometer's Sketchpad.
Video No video this week.
Homework 1 Explore the Web and design a home page. Introductory questions in Geometer's Sketchpad.

Class 2

Technical Information More about using The Geometer's Sketchpad. How to put pictures on Web pages.
Lab Monge's Theorem
Video No video this week.
Homework 2 Further questions on Geometer's Sketchpad and questions about Monge's Theorem.

Class 3

Technical Information Question and answer session on Sketchpad and homework. Presentation on Copyright, Plagarism, Public Domain, and Fair Use.
Lab Peaucellier's Linkage
Video The Stella Octangula
Homework 3 Questions about Sketchpad and the Linkage. Warm up questions for the dynamics lab.

Class 4

Technical Information How to use the dynamical systems software.
Lab Dynamical systems lab
Video Outside In
Final Project abstracts collected
Homework 4 Questions on Dynamical Systems lab and related material included in the lab.

Class 5

Technical Information Question and answer session on dynamical systems.
Lab Dynamical systems lab
Video No video this week.
Homework 5 More dynamical systems questions. Invent a classification system for wallpaper patterns.

Class 6

Technical Information Kaleidotile, Java, the Applications menu.
Lab Introduction to Symmetries
Video No video this week.
Homework 6 Combining Symmetries

Class 7

Technical Information Kali, Screen Capture, Geometric Golfer, Copyright and the Web
Lab Wallpaper Patterns
Video The Platonic Solids
Homework 7 Searching for Symmetries

Class 8

Lab Orbifolds -- Symmetries of Surfaces
Video Not Knot
Homework 8 Putting it All Together

Class 9

Technical Information Tesselmania
Lab Unfolding an Orbifold
Video Shape of Space

Final Class

Presentation of Final Projects

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