Forum Conversations: February 2010

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Now Introducing . . .

Now introducing the Math Made Almost Bearable Podcast! As many of you know Frank Kelly, Chris Holden and I have been putting together videos for the MMAB project. Many of those videos are on this site! However, sometimes the best way (as Journey Through Genius students know) to approach math is to just talk about it! And thus was born the MMAB podcast. Two interview with Frank are up now with more to come. To subscribe via iTunes follow this link

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=351462016

If you're not as big a fan of iTunes the episodes can also be viewed here

http://www.smokeandgold.com/?tag=math-made-almost-bearable

Welcome

Welcome to the Virtual Honors Forum: a place where students, faculty, and staff of the University Honors Program come together for conversation. Just like in our real forum full of cozy couches, study tables and chairs, this is a place to share with others what you are studying, what has you mesmerized, mildly intrigued, or downright flabbergasted. "To share" is really the key phrase, for as many of us have discovered, real learning (and research) does not take place in a small room where we sit alone with a book. Learning is dialogue and research is collaboration.

On this blog you may find and contribute to conversations about amazing movies, brain plasticity, DDR, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, or the ethics of cloning. But more importantly, you have discovered an interdisciplinary community of thinkers and learners who are engaged in a broad range of topics. We ask that you always conduct your conversations with courtesy and honesty.

Finally, we encourage participants to challenge and wrinkle the boundaries between the "thinkers" and the "learners"; to surrender your preconceptions and self-perceptions at the door; to accept an alternating existence between those two roles while in this forum. One day you might contribute as a "thinker," but the next day you read something which transforms you back into a "learner."