Activities

Workshops

• Spring 2008 SIGCSE08 Conference, March 12-15, 2008
• Fall 2007 DARS Training, Oct, 2007
• Fall 2007 Frontiers in Education Saturday, Oct 13th
• Spring 2007 Teaching Academy 2002, 2003, 2004
• Fall 2004 Test Writing Training ~ Engineering Centers
• Fall 2004 University Roundtable ~ Prof. Kenneth R. Mayer
• Fall 2004 Distinguished Lecture ~ Dr. Richard Tapia
• Summer 2004 Emerging Scholars Training Workshop ~ Austin, TX
• Summer 2004 Peer Leader Training Workshop ~ Fullerton, CA
• Spring 2004 Java 1.5 Teleconference by McGraw-Hill
• Summer 2003 Java Symposium
• Spring 2003 Web Accessibility
• Fall 2002 CS-1 Focus Group
• Summer 2002 GUI CS-1 at UW-Stout
• Fall 2001 Radical CS-1

Workshops

Frontiers in Education, Saturday Oct 13th, 2007

Presented paper that I co-authored with Prof. Greg Moses and Mike Litzkow on our experience with using eTEACH and CourseBuilder to provide CS310/NEEP271 content more interactively on via the web.

Test Writing Training ~ Engineering Centers Building

Four sessions on writing questions and analyzing the results of scantron tests and the statistics returned by Testing and Evaluation. The dates of the sessions were: (10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26) 2004

Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Richard Tapia of Rice Unversity

• August 17th, 6-8pm. Dr. Tapia presented "A lifetime of Diversity - Challenges, Realities and Successes" and answered questions regarding the challenges that underrepresented minorities face in an academic environment.
• Dr Tapia is a Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University
• It is important to measure the retention and graduation rates rather than the acceptance rates alone when discussing the success or failure of various programs.

Emerging Scholars Training Workshop

• Aug 11-13, 2004 ~ attend workshop with Prof. Horwitz

Peer Leader Training Workshop

• May 24-26, 2004 ~ attend workshop with peer leader group

Java 1.5 Teleconference

Participated in McGraw-Hill's Java 1.5 teleconference on Java 1.5 which was held on Friday April 16th, 2004 from 1pm-2pm. A copy of the PowerPoint presentation is available.

New in Java 1.5

• Better I/O:
• Scanner class for reading in all types of user input.
• a printf method for formatting values in output.


• Another for statement for arrays and collections:

    int [] intArray = { 5, 6, 7, 8, 3, 2, 15 };
    for ( int currInt : intArray ) sum += currInt;
    System.out.printf( "Average: %1.2f", sum / intArray.length );

• Automatic wrapping of primitive types in their respective wrapper classes.


• Addition of generic types (like templates in C++)


• Addition of enum type:

   public enum StopLight { RED, YELLOW, GREEN };
   

We also discussed various IDE options. I would like to consider Eclipse and JCreator.

Java Symposium

June 4-6, 2003 in Milwaukee, WI.

Web Accessiblity Workshops

Attended DoIT's Accessibility Workshop in April 2003

McGraw-Hill Publishers Focus Group, Fall 2002

Participated in focus group with other educators in CS-1 from around the country

GUI CS-1 Workshop, UW-Stout

Program presenter Stuart Reges. Stuart presented work on using GUI programming projects to teach "Introduction to Programming" courses.

Radical CS-1

Participated in workshop at UW-Stevens Point in Fall 2001 with Jim Skrentny. Workshop presented work on using Design Patterns to teach "Introduction to Programming" course.