Re: How do teachers use org-mode

[Sankalp <sankalpkhare@gmail.com>]

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Dear Brian,

On 2 February 2012 23:24, brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Dear Venkatesh Choppella: Thanks for the notes on teaching OrgMode etc.:
> While reviewing your class notes and emails to your class about OrgMode and
> TeX/LaTeX I came across your suggestion to students to play with:
>
> http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
>
> ** Detexify can be useful; but, this may give your students more
> traction/uses:
>
> http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html
>

^^ This is awesome! :D


>
> ---which not only suggests an equivalent TeX/LaTeX; it provides a MathML
> suggestion as well.
>
> *** Disclaimer: I have no relations to visionobjects.com that I know of
> (but the example site looks free to play with at least).
>
>  On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I use org-mode to keep track of grades and all other information I
>> collect on students. I make great use of tables, table formulas, tags,
>> headlines, and lists. I can compute a grade in milliseconds. Entering
>> data is a snap. Since everything is plain text, I can add comments with
>> ease and use git to keep track of everything.
>>
>> Scott Randby
>>
>> On 01/31/2012 11:10 PM, Venkatesh Choppella wrote:
>> > Dear Org-mode users:
>> >
>> > I am using  org-mode this semester  to host my course notes.   For me
>>
>
> ...
>

We'll relay this to the class, and to the instructors too, while we're at
it.

Thanks a lot,

--
Sankalp
(Teaching Assistant for Dr.Choppella's IT Workshop course)

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