Encourage faculty to come to workshop!

Gary McGovern gary.play at btopenworld.com
Fri Jan 25 00:47:10 UTC 2002


It would really be appreciated if lectures and demos etc were recorded and transcribed 
for broad ditsribution.

Thanks
Gary


24/01/02 21:29:48, Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

>If you know a US Computer Science faculty member that you'd like to 
>introduce to Squeak, please do forward the below message to them. 
>We're all set on presenters now, and I think we're going to have a 
>really exciting workshop.  We have some 15 people who've applied to 
>attend so-far, but we have space for 25 (maybe a little more, if we 
>can squeeze the budget appropriately).  So please do encourage your 
>friends and acquaintances to come!
>
>Thanks!
>  Mark
>
>
>-- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY! --
>
>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
>CS FACULTY AND PRESENTERS
>
>NSF-SPONSORED
>WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRATION OF MULTIMEDIA
>CONSTRUCTION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
>USING SQUEAK
>
>-AND-
>
>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, understandable, and usable.
>
>Squeak is a new cross-platform implementation of Smalltalk that 
>emphasizes multimedia and educational applications.  Several 
>Squeak-using CS classes are having students tackle interesting and 
>motivating assignments like building movie editors, MP3 players, 
>personalized Web newspapers, and 3-D adventure games.  The basic 
>techniques are usable in other programming platforms, but Squeak 
>provides an infrastructure that fades much of the non-relevant 
>complexity.
>
>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 ("father of the 
>personal computer" and leader of the Squeak Central team with Dan 
>Ingalls) and CS faculty such as Dr. Rick Zaccone and Dr. Mark Guzdial 
>who are using Squeak to enable multimedia projects in their current 
>courses.  Topics will include using multimedia projects for 
>non-majors, computer music for undergraduates, teaching software 
>engineering with Squeak projects, and digital video special effect 
>projects.
>
>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.
>
>Hope to see you in May in Atlanta!
>
>-- 
>--------------------------
>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
>
>






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