Barbara Kaskosz - Current grants, recent and upcoming talks and workshops

     Recent Grants

• Principal Investigator on the grant: National Science Foundation Award, NSF DUE-0535327, for the project: Tools and Training for Developers of Mathematics and Science Teaching Materials in Flash.
  Award amount: $137,163.- Award duration: January 1, 2006- June 30, 2008.
  Co-principal Investigator: Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University.

• Awarded $2,910.- from the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Research, and Outreach for the project: Exploration of the Server-Side Functionality of the Flash Platform.
  Duration: July 1, 2006- July 1, 2008.

     2008 presentations

• National Science Foundation CCLI Principal Inversigators Conference, Washington DC, August 13 -15, 2008.
   
• A talk "Steal This Applet!" joint with Doug Ensley (Ensley presenting) at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA,
  January 6-9, 2008.    Click for abstract
   
• A panelist in a panel discussion: Dueling Platforms: Java vs. Flash, at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA,
  January 6-9, 2008.    Click for description
   
• The 20th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), March 6-9, 2008, San Antonio, TX. A computer mincourse by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz: Steal This Applet!
   
• PREP Workshop: Flash in the Valley -- Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash, June 9 -13, 2008, Shippensburg University, PA.   (Co-organizer.)

     Recently invited to Workshops

• Better Practices for Math on the Web, Washington DC, July 15 - 21, 2007.

• Enhancing the problem authoring capabilties of WeBWorK, August 6 - August 10, 2007, Palo Alto, California.

     Recent Talks and Workshops

• PREP Flash Workshop at URI: Flash at the Beach -- Creating Mathlets with Adobe Flash, June 11 -15, 2007.

• Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, January 5-8, 2007. Together with Doug Ensley conducts a minicourse: Creating visual mathematics applets using Flash programming.
      Click for an abstract

• The 19th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), February 15-18, 2007, Boston, MA. A computer mincourse by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz: Flash programming for creating mathlets

• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio Texas, January 12-15, 2006. Presented a talk: Flash as a tool for creating calculus and analysis mathlets.
      Click for online version of presentation

• The 18th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, (ICTCM), March 16-19, 2006, Orlando, Florida. Together with Douglas Ensley conducted a computer minicourse: Tools and training for developing mathematics teaching materials in Flash.

Page last updated: October 16, 2008