CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
CS FACULTY, PRESENTERS, AND SQUEAKERS

NSF-SPONSORED
WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRATION OF MULTIMEDIA
CONSTRUCTION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
USING SQUEAK

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ATLANTA SQUEAKEND

May 3-5, 2002
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mmworkshop

Building projects involving graphics, sound, music, animation, video, 
and other forms of media can motivate computer science students, 
particularly those who may not be excited about more traditional 
programming projects. (Does anyone really believe that "Hello, 
World!" is a motivating assignment?)  Valued computer science 
learning objectives can be met with multimedia assignments as well as 
with traditional assignments. Modern hardware makes these kinds of 
projects possible on traditional computers, and modern software like 
Squeak makes multimedia approachable and understandable.

The NSF Division of Undergraduate Education is sponsoring a workshop 
to help CS faculty to learn about integrating multimedia construction 
in CS courses.  Speakers will include Dr. Alan Kay and CS faculty 
such as Dr. Rick Zaccone and Dr. Mark Guzdial who are using Squeak to 
enable multimedia projects in their current courses.

Concurrently, Stephen Pair is organizing a SqueakEnd at the same 
place on the same weekend.  The goal is to create synergy between the 
two events. Squeakers who come for the SqueakEnd can also attend 
workshop sessions that they're interested in, and workshop attendees 
can hang out with the Squeakers to hear about the latest Squeak 
technologies.

FACILITIES: We'll be using two classrooms, each equipped with two 
projectors, NT computers in the classrooms, and Ethernet connections. 
Directly adjacent to the classrooms is a cluster of over 40 
workstations: Pentium workstations bootable into NT or Linux, and 
SPARC workstations running Solaris.  Outside the glass walls of the 
cluster is an open area with DHCP Ethernet connections at each table. 
Attendees will be given a College username/password for workstation 
and DHCP access for the weekend.

CALL FOR CS FACULTY ATTENDEES: We have funding for some 25 CS faculty 
to attend the workshop. Workshop attendees will have their lodging 
and meals covered, but are responsible for their own travel. 
Attendees will also recieve a CD with workshop materials and a copy 
of the textbook "Squeak: Object-oriented design with multimedia 
applications" by Guzdial (2001) courtesy of Prentice-Hall. CS faculty 
interested in attending the workshop should email 
guzdial at cc.gatech.edu with a subject line of "MM-CSED: Attend" 
Please tell us:
- Your name and institution (Sorry -- only US institution faculty are eligible)
- The course(s) you teach where you might integrate multimedia and Squeak
- Your email address, phone number, and fax number
- If you have any previous Squeak experience

There are limited funds available to pay travel expenses of some 
faculty attendees.  If you are interested in receiving these funds, 
please make your argument in your application and give us an estimate 
of your travel expenses.  Our criteria in selecting faculty for 
travel funding are:
- Increasing diversity in faculty attendees and in students 
potentially being reached;
- Number of students potentially being reached (e.g., we will favor 
teaching institutions over research institutions);
- Enthusiasm of the faculty applicants.

Applications will be accepted until March 1.  We will inform 
applicants of decisions by March 15.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS:  There are still some presentation slots open. 
If you are using Squeak in your class to integrate multimedia 
content, or if you would like to present some multimedia programming 
techniques that might be used in a CS class, we would welcome your 
participation!  We have funding for travel, as well as lodging and 
meals for presenters.  Please email guzdial at cc.gatech.edu with a 
subject line of "MM-CSED: Present"  Please tell us:
- Your name, email address, phone number, and fax number
- What you would like to present
- An estimate of your travel expenses

Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in 
presenting, by February 1 at the latest, and we will get back to you 
by Feb. 15.  If you have materials that that you would like us to 
include on a workshop/SqueakEnd CD, we will need them by April 1.

CALL FOR SQUEAKERS TO COME TO SQUEAKEND: If you are interested in 
coming to the Atlanta Spring 2002 SqueakEnd, please let Stephen Pair 
know at spair at acm.org.  We are asking SqueakEnd attendees to pay $90 
BY CHECK OR CASH ONLY to cover meals.  (Our NSF funds can only be 
used to pay for faculty attendees and presenters, but we don't want 
to have to segregate folks at meals.  By having Squeakers contribute, 
we can have joint meals.)  We can only comfortably handle about 100 
people total.  Please let us know if you are planning to join us for 
SqueakEnd by March 15 for planning purposes.  We will reserve a block 
of rooms at the same hotel as the Workshop attendees and presenters.

Hope to see you in May in Atlanta!

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Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html