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LON-CAPA Conference at FSU

January 25th and 26th, 2002

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Supported by

The National Science Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Florida State University

Michigan State University

Thursday, January 24th

7-9pm  Welcome reception

 

Friday, January 25th

8:30-8:45 am Welcome - Kirby Kemper, Chairman, FSU Department of Physics

8:4512:15 am Chair Hon-Kie Ng

      Technical project status    [AM Break ~ 10:30 am]

(a)   Introduction to LON-CAPA Guy. Albertelli

(b)  Dynamically Generated Plots Matthew Hall

(c)   Sample statistical information M-B. Behrouz

(d)  Printing Assignments: - Alex Sakharuk

(e)   LON-CAPA system software installation - Scott Harrison

(f)   Presentation of planned features Guy Albertelli

(g)   Solicitation of ideas for new features Gerd Kortemeyer

(h)  Request for volunteers for system development Gerd Kortemeyer

12:30-1:30pm  Lunch

1:30-5pm     Workshop for instructors/authors/coordinators

             [PM Break ~ 3:15 pm]

          G.Albertelli, G. Kortemeyer, F. Berryman

6:00-6:45     Reception

6:45-9:00     Dinner

          Brief comments:

          IT in Education Keeping up the momentum M. Thoennessen

Saturday, January 26th

8:30- 9:30 am Roy Lacey Chair

Brief remarks - L.A.K. Simon, MSU Provost (via Lon-Capa)

Summary of FridayÕs Technical sessions Guy Albertelli

9:30-10:30 am Gerald Feldman - Chair

    (a) Integration of Physlets to LON-CAPA [15 min]

                                             Mark Lucas

    (b) Utilizing Application Software with CAPA - [15 min]

                                             Paul Rubin              

    (c) LON-CAPA at TMCC [15 min]

                                             Lars Jensen 

    (d) Evaluating the use of CAPA at USC [15 min]

                                             Chaden Djalali

10:30-11:00 am Morning Break     

11:00-12:20 am Ray Batchelor - Chair

 (a) Lecture-On-Line for a Large Introductory Biology Course [15 min]

                                             John Merrill

 (b) Introduction of CAPA with CAPASet at UM Physics [15 min]

                                             David Pang

 (c) CAPA Materials for a Descriptive Astronomy Class [15 min]

                                             Tom Robertson

 (d) LON-CAPA Sustainability:  Issues & Options:

             Round table with participants [35 min]

                        Moderator: Cheri Speier       

12:20-1:45 pm    Lunch

1:45-3:30 pm  Cathy Mader - Chair

 (a) CAPA & LON-CAPA in Michigan High Schools [20 min]

John Plough, Paul Ciske, Kathy Ebrahimi, Kirky Atlee, M.arlo Wiltse

 (b) CAPA in Hungarian [15 min]

Akos Horvath

(c) Conceptual and Numerical LON-CAPA problems

Hon-Kie Ng, Ed Kashy, Guy Albertelli [15 min]

 (d) Visualizing Chemicals structures via Web Graphics

Horst Boegel [20 min]     

 (e) Status of the NSF-ITR Project & Future Workshops

Gerd Kortemeyer [30 min]

3:30-4:00 pm Afternoon Break 

4:00-5:30 pm      

Round Table Issues of interest to participants

    Theme: "NETWORKING FOR A MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY"               

Moderator: Paul Rubin

6:30 9pm           Reception and Dinner

 

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