Faculty Fellows

• To become a member in Facutly Fellows, you can view Faculty Fellows page.

Undergraduate Computational Science Olympics (CSO) Competition

• The announcement of CSO
• Competition in 1999

Sociology Workbench (SWB)

• The SWB is a collection of on-line resources for sociologists and social scientists.
• The SWB is described in Sept. 15, 1999, NPACI Online article.
• The core of SWB is a set of on-line analysis tools which you can use to examine several built-in datasets, as well as your own survey data. In essence, it is a free on-line statistical package implementing a unique data analysis methodology.

Assessment and Analysis

Partnership with NISE ILT:
September 1999 marks the beginning of collaboration between the EC/CSE and the National Institute for Science Education NISE. Jean-Pierre Bayard, CSU Sacramento is an NPACI Fellow with year and attended the EC/CSE CSU Faculty Workshop in June 1999 at SDSU and SDSC.

Focus on the College Level One program CL1

This includes the collection of Collaborative Learning Teaching Stories. An interesting selection is the Engineering story.

Focus on the Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide FLAG

It was featured in March 15th issue of Scoult Report for Science and Engineering.

Useful resource for survey instruments to establish learning outcomes of our students. Note, these sample surveys could be the basis for gathering data for SWB.

Flashlight Program from the TLT Group of the AAHE

The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) sponsors several activities and Steve Ehrlmann is with the Flashlight Program and with the NISE/ILT group now.

TechEd99

Workshop on Improving Undergraduate Education in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences through the use of Technology.

ILT description by Jean-Pierre R. Bayard [best viewed with IE4 or above]

At the web address above is the presentation that many of the ILT Fellows will use when we go on interview visits. The content comes from our poster, notes, and several other sources.

Jean-Pierre R. Bayard, Ph.D.; Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering; California State University, Sacramento; 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA95819-6019; Email: bayardj@csus.edu; Phone: Voice (916)278-5847 Fax: (916)278-5949; WWW: http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bayardj/index.html

1998/99 Evaluation by NISE/LEAD researchers:

Dr. Julie Foertsch and Dr. Baine Alexander performed and extensive evaluation of the EC/CSE through phone interviews, faculty email-surveys, face-to-face interviews with members of the EC/CSE and SDSU faculty, administration and other stake-holders. This year-long collaboration had several useful outcomes, please examine for an off-SDSU campus viewpoint:

1998/99 Formative Evaluation of the EC/CSE by J.Foertsch and B. Alexander, LEAD/NISE, U.Wisconsin (copy on SDSU Web)

Fall 1998 Survey of SDSU Faculty's Current IT Needs and Practices conducted by email through the support of SDSU Deans of the Colleges of Arts & Letters, Sciences, and Engineering.Note: these are the college with faculty participating in the EC/CSE Faculty Fellows program.

Sample course evaluation questions for courses using HPC technology, courtesy of the LEAD Center, U. Wisconsin-Madison

Sample survey of SDSU Facuty's Current Information Technology Needs and Practices, courtesy of the LEAD Center, U. Wisconsin-Madison, prepared Fall 1999

Internet2

• February 2000, we begin a collaboration with Prof. Allison Rosett's ET 644 Advanced Instructional Design course to develop a module on What Does Internet2 Mean for Faculty which they completed May 2000. [Stewart's starting point for Debbie LaTorre and Alicia Holder was Internet2 Meaning for Faculty]
• In July 1997, SDSU joined with other CSU campuses to apply for vBNS access from NSF (vBNS = very-high-speed Backbone Network System) for SDSU. A Summary of recent activities is available.
• As promised by the CSU Chancellor Office Network Engineers, the SDSU connection to the Abilene Network from the Internet2 Universities. Based on the Internet2 Fall Meeting in Seattle, Abilene High-speed Network update Oct 99

Presentations to SDSU, the CSU and the National Education, Outreach and Training collaboration

• The Ed Center considers the opportunity to present the goals, background, resources, plans, projects and current accomplishments as the first step in forming a collaboration with faculty. We keep a history of these so that you can see our progress.

National EOT-PACI workshops

• Workshops were held at the NPACI All Hands, San Diego, January 1999
• Stewart participated in the NEOT Meeting, July 1998, O'Hare Airport
• Ilya Zaslavsky participated in the National EOT Meeting (Feb. 20-21, 1998, Chicago, IL)
• Kris Stewart has participated in the National EOT workshop in Madison WI, Sept. 11-13 1997 (NISE/LEAD thanks Greg Moses)

Information on the Internet

• ACM announce Ubiquity, a weekly, online magazin e about IT. See other ACM TechNews.
• Hostname to Latitude/Longitude - This research project from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne help to put a geographical orientation on the Internet Protocol (IP) and Web Addresses that are so prevalent in our lives today. It builds on tools originally produced at Argonne National Labs.
• Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT³) Dept. Ed. grant opportunity
  • EOT-PACI Ed Grid, led by Lisa Biavenue
  • LTCA: Learning through Cyber Appenticeship, led by Bernie Dodge The WebQuest Page from Bernie Dodge, SDSU College of Education, Education Technology Dept. has been a long-time Professional in Ed Tech/Info Tech/Instruction Tech also received a PT³ grant in the first round of awards.
• Information Competency Projects are being developed at several University campuses. The centralizing coordination for the CSU is from Dr. Susan C. Curzon, Chair, Information Competence Work Group and Dean, University Library, CSU, Northridge. [as described in the Jan. 22, 1999 CSU/AAHE panel.] Also, note Feb. 1999 NSF Call
  • NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K12 Dear Colleague Letter
  • NSF Gradudate Teaching Fellows in K12 Program Description
  • SDSU Librarians by Specialty. The Ed Center on CSE is located in the SDSU Library Addition and we have come to appreciate and value the contribution the library and the librarians make to our research activities.
  • CSU Chico METIS
  • Steps in the Research Process
  • Cal Poly SLO Info Comp & GE
  • SLO Info Comp Sites
  • CSU San Marcos
  • CSU Dominguez Hills
  • UC Santa Cruz
  • Information Literacy Internet Sites (recommended: Carol Lea Goyne, clgoyne@mail.sdsu.edu)
  • The New Age of the Book (New York Review of Books) ROBERT DARNTON March 18, 1999 (recommended: Treacy Lau, tlau@mail.sdsu.edu)
• Information Overload is a characteristic of life today which each individual can learn to deal with. (Lab used by Stewart in her SDSU courses) Info-Overload Lab.
• Computer Science and GE
  • Computer Science AP exam from College Board
  • California State Dept. of Education
  • San Diego County Office of Education

Distance Education

• Ilya Zaslavsky, GIS staff scientist with the Ed. Center, taught two courses at Western Michigan University (Geography Department) from the Ed. Center facilities at SDSU. See distance learning links for more information. The California State University (CSU) system has a Special Project studying the cost/benefit of mediated instruction/distributed learning. The American Association for Higher Education releasted a report, May 1998 related to Distance Learning.

Computational Science in Secondary Schools

• Ed Grid, Moving K-12 Teachers into 21st Century Science with 21st Century Technology: Building the Educational Grid for Pre-Service Training, Lisa Bievenue PI, EOT-PACI/NCSA
• SC2000
• STEP Home Page
• The Secondary Education in Computational Sciences, SPECS, has joined the NPACI partnership to develop curriculum materials intended to expose high school students to computational science.