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EdCenter Projects
Faculty Fellows
- Learn about our most successful program to foster the use of NPACI
computational resources in undergraduate education. To see examples
of accomplishments by this program, you can go directly to the Faculty
Fellows page.
SDSC
(San Diego SuperComputer) Student Intern Poster Presentation Summer 2000.
- Interns "Show
Their Stuff" at Poster Session
Students displayed summer research projects at August 24 event, a new
article in NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure)
and SDSC OnLine magazine.
- EdCenter on Computational Science and Engineering was proud to participate
in NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure)
and SDSC (San Diego SuperComputer) Student
Intern Poster Presentation. Please read more about this event in
article we reprinted from NPACI & SDSC Online Magazine (text by
Nicole Batchelor, SDSC student intern; photographs by Jeff Sale and
Zarko Petrovic).
Undergraduate Computational Science Olympics (CSO) Competition
- 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
An excellent resource for background on Assessment is the NSF Document
User
Friendly Guide for Project Evaluation: Science, Mathematics, Engineering
and Technology Education.
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
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
- 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
- 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
iintended to expose high school students to computational science.
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