Outline for Practicalities Discussion

• Getting students to read
      Always hard. Is it harder with the online materials?
• Multitasking
  Fact of today's students' lives.
  Other tasks
      Music
      Email
      Instant messaging
      Web surfing
• Training
      To read mathematics
      To read mathematics online
• Eye fatigue
• Making notes
      Post-It Notes
      ASCIIMATH

• Firefox should be set to open links in new windows, not new tabs.
• More options on the Splash page?
• Keeping open multiple pages (Backward links open in new windows)
• Need index or some sort of Search/Browse

• Text is not designed to be printed out, but what about exercises?
  Create a printable pdf version?
• Printing for pencil and paper work (graphs, graph paper, etc.)
• Hard copy for introduction
• Hard copy for Instructor notes

• Create a CD/DVD version?
• More on printing
• Planning for future
      Availability of notebook machines
      Hand-held devices?

• Now: Free for next year at least
• Later
      Will support infrastructure and provide seed money for additional books
      What is a reasonable price point?
      Perseverance