Teachers will have the opportunity to download a free 'shopping basket' of Applets to distribute
and run offline.
The site will also encourage the publication of teacher reports and the development of new Applets based on the frameworks.
We envisage four levels of involvement:
The busy teacher will probably use chosen Applets either half-screen with instructions,
or whole screen and provide their own instructions. To encourage textual reports of their use,
the site will provide facilities for the easy submission of reports for review and site-based publication.
Reports that suggest new Applet designs would be welcomed and carefully considered.
The teacher who can create web pages will probably write more detailed material and include project Applets where appropriate.
The site will support this and also allow the upload of new web material for review and possible inclusion.
The maths / graphics educator who can program in basic Java may want to develop and write
entirely new Applets using the frameworks as they are. Once again, the site will need to
fully support this as well as the uploading of new Applets for review.
The advanced developer will extend the frameworks to make them do things they were not originally designed to do.
We are already looking at ideas in the Mathematics Education literature to see if any
can be made interactive, for example fractal and Penrose tiling, polytopes, draggabe horizons and vanishing points, and so on.
If developers do create new specialist interactive Applets based on the frameworks,
we would encourge publication in the Journals. However, the site could publicise
abstracts and links to the developer's website.