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                     July 1995   STEP Calendar
              Kris Stewart, STEP Program Coordinator
                            (7/9/95)
 
        Theme:  Using HTML on a stand-alone machine for
                Lesson prepareation and presentation

   Monday       Tuesday     Wednesday    Thursday      Friday
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|Don Anderson|Randy S.    |R. Souviney |Dave Thomas |Dave Thomas |
|Welcome     |Bill Barowy |Bill Barowy |Visualizat'n|Visualizat'n|
|HTML begin  |Modeling    |wbarowy@bbn.|            |            |
|from STEP   |rsouviney@  |        com |dave@mathfs.|            |
|page (below)|  ucsd.edu  |9am tea 2 fl|math.montana|            |
|          10|          11|photo 2pm 12|.edu      13|          14|
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|Don Anderson|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow|
|HTML        |NESP/LLNL   |URL:        |            |            |
|            |lindow@nes. |nebbs.nersc.|            |            |
|            |  nersc.gov |        gov |            |            |
|            |            |9am SDSC tea|            |            |
|          17|          18|2nd floor 19|          20|          21|
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|            |            |9am SDSC tea|            |            |
|            |            |            |            |            |
|8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special|
|D. Drobnis  |D. Drobnis  |R. Patella  |McKelvey    |CERFNet rep.|
|Internet    |Networking  |Ethernet Im-|Novell Imple|Connecting  |
|Fundamntls24|Fundamntls25|plement   26|mentat'n  27|to I'Net  28|
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                               drobnisd@SDSC.edu   rickp@SDSC.edu

The mornings will involve presentations by the speakers.  
The afternoons will be used for lab time for STEPpers to
work with their Lead Teachers and Speaker to make advances
on their lesson plans using HTML.

STEP home page URL is http://www-step.ucsd.edu/

STEPpers should ask macsupport (macsupport@SDSC.edu) to handle any
hardware/software issues involving the Macs in the Auditorium.
Please check with your Lead Teacher first.

STEP Study Groups (by email name on sdcc14):
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towler: burrell,maness,wavra,falvo,hays,rossi,pucci,adorado,lgordon
cox:    alvarez,hoang,trieu,steinbre,corlett,dbently,rnorth
zakoski:herms,oneil,caprali,heyenga,alexande,klopfens,ziegler,sbartram
harlow: simonds,sixtus,parra,ball,pereira,mandrake,lawrence,kwoodwor
elliott:wynn,crandall,ross,lafo,cavanaug,hamilton,vanderch

STEP Special Interest Groups (SIGS):
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Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Computer Science & Math - harlow and stewart

San Dieguito High School has generous loaned STEP 5 IBM/PCs
for use during the workshop this summer.  Two of these
machines have been connected to the Internet.

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Detailed Syllabus for the 1995 Summer Workshop:

        Theme:  Using HTML on a stand-alone machine for
                Lesson prepareation and presentation

The mornings will involve presentations by the speakers.  
The afternoons will be used for lab time for STEPpers to
work with their Lead Teachers and Speaker to make advances
on their lesson plans using HTML.

Monday, July 10
Dr. Don Anderson (STEP PI, UCSD) - HTML introductions - The lessons 
are located on the STEP home page 

http://www-step.ucsd.edu/

Tuesday, July 11 and Wednesday, July 12
Dr. Randy Souviney (TEP/UCSD) and Dr. Bill Barowy (BBN,
Boston) will present the Macintosh software packages
"Model-It", "Star Logo" and other modeling software.  They
will discuss how modeling fits in to the high school
curriculum and will instruct the STEP teachers in the use
of these packages.  This is an extension of the Community
of Explorers (CoE) presentation to STEP in summer '94.

Thursday, July 13 and Friday, July 14
Dr. Dave Thomas, Montana State University, will extend his
summer '94 presentation on Scientific Visualization using
tools available on the Internet.  Dr. Thomas has taught
this SciViz course via distance learning on the Internet
for several years.

Monday, July 17
Dr. Don Anderson continues HTML lessons

Tuesday, July 18 - Friday, July 21

Brian Lindow, NERSC/LLNL, will extend his summer '94
presentation on how to use the Cray that is available to
all high school teachers.

Monday, July 24 - Friday, July 28

Dan Drobnis (SDSC) will present a special "break out
session" giving an overview and details on the Internet and
set up your own local networks.  These lectures will be
given 8-9:30 in room 408.  If there is adequate interest
from the entire group, the lectures will be moved to the
auditorium.

Don Anderson will continue to help STEPpers work through
the self-paced HTML lessons he prepared.

Preparations for SC95 and overview of the participation
requests will be reviewed.  The two proposed hands-on
workshops are given below:

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Good morning Barb, (barb helland, Ames Lab, Ames, Iowa)

I'm enclosing the descriptions of the two workshops that
STEP (supercomputer teacher enhancement program) would like
to present at Supercomputing '95 for the K12 education
sessions on Sunday and Monday.

We were also fortunate to meet with John Ziebarth for about
an hour on Thursday (6/22), so that John could meet his
"local contact" group:

Dr. Bob Dean (STEP co-PI with Dr. Don Anderson)
Jayne Keller (Education Outreach Coordinator at SDSC)
Olin Elliott (STEP Lead teacher and Math/Physics Teacher at
              Mountain Empire High School in San Diego county)

During the discussions with John Z. it came up that he was
also planning to have "High School Day" on Wednesday during
the SC95 week.  When speaking with his "local contact
group", the possibility of having a extra day (on Thursday)
and keeping the computer labs was discussed.  I'm bringing
all this up because on each of the abstracts below, there
are more than one presenter listed.

STEP can offer to present these two workshops on the Sunday/Monday
labs where the folks that John Ziebarth ends up supporting to
attending SC95 are going.

Additional, a slightly modified version of the workshops can
be presented on the Wednesday/Thursday sessions to a more general
audience, if that is what the SC95 committee would like.

Since we are local, we would like to help out as much as
possible.

We envisage the session would contain:

1) formal presentation of materials using the projection system
2) handson lab work for the SC95 participants using the lesson
   plans discussed in the abstracts
3) discussion time, where we would like to have additional
   members of the STEP group in the Lab to offer their personal
   stories about how they have been incorporating computational
   science in their high school classrom.

Feedback is always appreciated Barb, so let me know what
additional information you might need.

thanks
kris
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 95 15:11:27 PDT
To: stewart@saturn.sdsu.edu
From: towler@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Tim Towler)
Subject: Web Browser/Computational Science Session SC95
Cc: harlow@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, towler@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, elliott@sdcc14.ucsd.edu,
        cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, zakoski@sdcc14.ucsd.edu

Title:

        Using a Web Browser as an Educational Tool
        in Computational Science

Presenters:

Tim Towler - Biology Teacher, San Diego High School
        San Diego, California
        Lead Teacher - Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program
        (STEP)
Dave Harlow - Computer Teacher, Gompers Secondary School
        San Diego, California
        Lead Teacher - STEP
Olin Elliott - Math & Physics Teacher, Mountain Empire High School
        Pine Valley, California
        Lead Teacher - STEP

Target Audience:

        Advanced
        6-8 & 9-12

Hardware Needs:

        Macintosh Computers with 16 Mb of RAM
                (or 8 with RAM Doubler).
        Computers are on the Internet.
        High Intensity Overhead Projector & Screen.

Software  Needs:

        NCSA Mosaic or Netscape 1.1N
                Sparkle
                JPEG   View
                Simple Player
                Sound Machine
                Gif  Converter
                Simple Text
        NIH  Image 1.57
        HTML Editor 1.0

Description:

        A Web Browser may be used on a stand alone or networked
        machine to present a lesson using Computational Science tools.

        A Web Browser can be used to:

        1) Introduce an activity, such as describing the collection of
                satellite data of sea surface temperature and information
                contained within that data.

        2) Explain how to complete and interpret the information
                in the activity, such as measuring parts of the
                image, making comparisons between data sets and
                interpreting the results.

        3) Direct the student to complete the activity using a
                separate application such as NIH Image.

        4) Bring closure to the activity by summarizing and
                reviewing.

        Participants will work through a lesson using scientific
        visualizations on a stand alone machine and over the
        Internet.  They will develop a subject specific lesson that
        can be used in their classroom.  They will use information
        gathered via a Web Browser over the Internet.  Participants
        will be given a template based on the demonstration lesson
        to help them.

Materials available to take home:

        Printed tutorial.

        Bring disks for:

                Electronic copy of lessons in Biology, Physics &
                Chemistry.
                Template files of HTML pages used for the lesson.
                Shareware HTML Editor.
                Web Browser.
                NIH Image.

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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:30:26 -0800
To: "stewart@cs.sdsu.edu (Kris Stewart)" <stewart@saturn.sdsu.edu>
From: cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Hal Cox)
Subject: The Real, Final, Terminal Input for SC95
Cc: cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Hal Cox)

Title:
        Presentation of Staff Inservice
        on Internet Research for K-12 Educators -
        A Sample Program for Training

Presenters:

Hal Cox - Physics Teacher, Hoover High School,
        San Diego,CA
        Lead Teacher - Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program
        (STEP)

Bob Zakoski - Chemistry Teacher, San Dieguito High School,
        Encinitas,CA
        Lead Teacher - STEP

Target Audience:

        Advanced
        K-12

Hardware Needs:

        Macintosh Computers capable of running the Software
        and connected to the Internet
        High Intensity (5000 Lumen) Overhead Projector and Screen

Software Needs:

        Netscape, Mosaic, Mosaic and Netscape helper applications
        and Eudora 1.5.2

Brief Description of Session:

This Session answers the question, "How do I introduce
networking tools and skills to the Faculty at my school?"
The presenters, based on their experience in conducting two
years of staff development, will give you their ideas of how
to do this.

Web Browsers have become a primary tool for doing Internet research in K-12
schools.  Staff development is a concern at all sites, and teachers who
lead this training usually have much to do other than teaching Internet
Workshops.  Having a prepared sample inservice program will be a great aid
for these teachers.  This session will provide a program that can be used
to train staff in the use of the Internet as a research tool.  There will
be a formal presentation and a hands-on lab where participants will work
through portions of STEP lesson plans for Staff Inservice Training.

The session will address how the following staff development topics could
be presented to your staff:

-Overview and Introduction to Internet and Networking
-Electronic Mail
-Internet Navigation

Handouts and materials:

        - Printed copy of the lesson plans

        - Bring Macintosh disks for:
                Electronic copy of the lesson plans
                Shareware Web Browsers.




