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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