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

     Recent and Current Grants

• Co-Principal Investigator on the grant: National Science Foundation Award, NSF DUE-1140299, for the project: Mobile Math Apps
  Award amount: $174,226.-
  Award duration: January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016.
  Principal Investigator: Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University.

• 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.

     Recent and Upcoming Conferences

• Invited to speak at the AMS Invited Session on The Present and Future of Mathematics on the Web at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), San Diego, CA, January 9 - 12, 2013. Talk, joint with Doug Ensley, titled Mobile Math Apps: The Smartphone Paradigm   Abstract
   
• Presenting a talk, joint with Doug Ensley and Lea Adams, Mobile Math Apps: Assessing Innovative Tachnologies for the Samrtphone at the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), Boston, MA, March 21 - 24, 2013.   Abstract
   
• Invited panelist to the Panel: Teaching Mathematics with the New Tablets: iPads, Slates, and Smartphones, MathFest 2011, Lexington, Kentucky, August 4-6, 2011.

     Recent Awards

• Recently, the FlashandMath project that includes the flashandmath.com website and the book Flash and Math Applets: Learn by Example by Doug Ensley and Barbara Kaskosz was honored by the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) with the 2009 ICTCM Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.
   
• The collection of mathlets featured at the Flash and Math site as well as at Flash Mathlets has just been awarded the MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources - MERLOT Classics 2009 by Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).

     Invited to 2009 Conferences

• 21st International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), New Orleans, LA, March 13-15, 2009.
   
• MERLOT International Conference, San Jose, CA, August 13-16, 2009.

     2008 presentations

• National Science Foundation CCLI Principal Inverstigators 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.)

     Invited to 2007 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.

     2006 - 2007 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.

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