Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-02 Thread Jambunathan K
Sankalp writes: > Dear Brian, > > On 2 February 2012 23:24, brian powell > 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 >

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-02 Thread Sankalp
Dear Brian, On 2 February 2012 23:24, brian powell 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://dete

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-02 Thread brian powell
* 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

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-02 Thread Scott Randby
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

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
I recently retired from teaching (perhaps temporarily). I was a high school science teacher, for the most part. I was the odd man out in my school district, perhaps the only one who used GNU/Linux, and on the island where I was working/living the only computer course in the public schools was "c

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread John Hendy
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:35 AM, BernardH wrote: > Venkatesh Choppella iiit.ac.in> writes: > >> >> Dear Org-mode users: [...] > > I'd like to use it for project planning with taskjuggler, but I'm currently > unable to do it (with taskjuggler v 3.1.0) (tried > https://github.com/alander/org-taskj

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread BernardH
Venkatesh Choppella iiit.ac.in> writes: > > Dear Org-mode users: > > I am using org-mode this semester to host my course notes. For me > org-mode was a god-send, since I had been struggling to organize > course notes in plain html before that. >… > > I am interested to hear from others w

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Richard Riley wrote: > Jambunathan K writes: > >> Have students turn in their assignments in Org mode format. >> >> From >> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rwl/lib/attachments/teaching/100/paper-guidelines.pdf >> >> See sec-2.3 >> >> , >> | I’m going to try an

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Richard Riley
Jambunathan K writes: > Have students turn in their assignments in Org mode format. > > From > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rwl/lib/attachments/teaching/100/paper-guidelines.pdf > > See sec-2.3 > > , > | I’m going to try an experiment in this course. I would like you to > | submit your paper

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Jambunathan K
Have students turn in their assignments in Org mode format. From http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rwl/lib/attachments/teaching/100/paper-guidelines.pdf See sec-2.3 , | I’m going to try an experiment in this course. I would like you to | submit your papers to me as plain text, not in a document

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 1 February 2012 06:10, Venkatesh Choppella wrote: > Dear Org-mode users: > > I am using  org-mode this semester  to host my course notes.   For me > org-mode was a god-send, since I had been struggling to organize > course notes in plain html  before that. > I am interested to  hear from oth

Re: [O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 1 Feb 2012, at 5:10, Venkatesh Choppella wrote: I am interested to hear from others who have used org-mode as part of their teaching activities. I've only very recently started using org-mode, including for teaching an OCaml class (OCaml is a programming language). I'm re-using some old

[O] How do teachers use org-mode

2012-01-31 Thread Venkatesh Choppella
Dear Org-mode users: I am using org-mode this semester to host my course notes. For me org-mode was a god-send, since I had been struggling to organize course notes in plain html before that. The course pages done in org-mode are at - http://pascal.iiit.ac.in/~itws2 - http://pascal.iiit