[cmath] Fwd: A new website for ICMI

[Peter Taylor]

colleagues:
I forward an announcement from Bernard on the new ICMI website.
A casual tour made it clear to me that this will 
be a great resource to look something up or to 
see what is current in the ever changing world of 
mathematics education. It's well designed with a 
clean professional look.  See for yourselves.
best,
peter

>Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 17:57:31 -0400
>From: "Bernard R. Hodgson" <bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca>
>Subject: A new website for ICMI
>
>Dear ICMI Representatives and Chairs of ICMI Affiliated Study Groups,
>
>I am pleased to inform you that enough progress 
>has been made on the process of renovation of 
>ICMI website so to now allow the public opening of the new site.
>
>As was the case for the "old" version, the ICMI 
>website is located on the server of the 
>International Mathematical Union, at 
>Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum in Berlin, and can be accessed via both url
>
>http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/   or  http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/
>
>Your comments and suggestions about the content 
>and format of the site, and how to make it a 
>better tool for the ICMI community, are highly 
>welcome.  We expect to open new pages of the site in a near future.
>
>Besides the information given in ICMI New 9 
>(April 2009), I wish to bring your attention to 
>two aspects of future development regarding the site.
>
>--  The site will house the ICMI Digital 
>Library, where various documents related to 
>ICMI, including the ICMI Study volumes and ICME 
>Proceedings, will be freely downloadable.  More 
>information will come at a later stage on this project.
>
>--  The ICMI Executive Committee also wishes the 
>site to serve as a portal to various sources of 
>information on the teaching and learning of 
>mathematics in all parts of the world.  The 
>thinking of the EC on this matter is still at an 
>early stage, but obviously your suggestions and 
>contributions will be essential so that the site 
>can serve to reflect and support the reflections 
>and actions in math education in your countries and regions.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Bernard
>
>--
>____________________________________________
>Bernard R. Hodgson
>Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secrétaire général de la CIEM
>(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction /
>Commission internationale de l'enseignement mathématique)
>Département de mathématiques et de statistique
>Faculté des sciences et de génie
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>Site CIEM / ICMI website :  http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/
>
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Peter Taylor
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