LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop 2004
Exchanging and Sharing Educational Resources

January 23rd and 24th, 2004

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Thursday, January 22

7:00-9:00 pm Reception at Hotel Lombardy

Friday, January 23

Starting 7:00 am: Breakfast at Hotel Lombardy

8:15 Coffee Time at GWU

8:30 Session F1: Welcome and Introduction (Corcoran 101)

Chair: Gerald Feldman

8:30 Cornelius Bennhold: Welcome Message and Introduction

8:35 Donald Lehman, GWU Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and George Gamow Professor of Physics: Welcome Address

8:45 Gerd Kortemeyer: The LON-CAPA Community (Apple Keynote.tar.gz) (PowerPoint) (QuickTime)

9:30 Guy Albertelli: Functionality Overview

10:15 Debby Kashy & Joan Poulsen: LON-CAPA from the student’s perspective:  Likes, dislikes, and lessons to be learned

10:45 Break

11:00 Ernest L. McDuffie, National Science Foundation: NSF Educational Programs, Priorities, and Opportunities

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch at GWU (2^nd floor of Corcoran Hall)

1:00 Session F2: Presentations (Corcoran 101)

Chair: Gerd Kortemeyer

DVD Presentation by Grand Ledge High School

1:00 Chaden Djalali: Transition from CAPA to LON-CAPA at USC

1:15 John Merrill: First Year Biology on LON-CAPA

1:30 Carmine Balascio: The LON-CAPA Homework System as an Aid for Problem-Based Learning in Engineering Technology Courses

1:45 Mark Lucas: LON-CAPA at Ohio U

2:00 Sue Legg: The Partnership in Global Learning Collaboration with LON-CAPA

2:15 Guy Albertelli: New Features and Future Priorities

2:50 Break, Walk to Academic Center

3:00 Session F3: Parallel Workshops

4:30 Break, Return to Corcoran Hall

4:45 Session F4: Presentations (Corcoran 101)

Chair: Cornelius Bennhold

4:45 Guy Ashkenazi: New chemistry tools for LON-CAPA

5:00 Antoinette Tessmer: LON-CAPA in Finance

5:15 Robley Light: Chemistry resource in LON-CAPA

5:30 Pamela Blamer/Michael Sampson: LON-CAPA in a High School (Biology) (Accounting)

5:45 Ray Batchelor: General Chemistry Homework - from CAPA to LON-CAPA

6:00 Jim Maxka: Bringing up LON-CAPA for Introductory Chemistry at Northern Arizona University

Earl Skelton: "The 100/100 Club"

6:30 Reception & Dinner at GW University Club

Saturday, January 24

Starting 7:00 am: Breakfast at Hotel Lombardy

8:15 Coffee Time at GWU

8:30 Session S1: Presentations and Project Status (Corcoran 101)

Chair: Wolfgang Bauer

8:30 Cheri Speier: Current Business Plan Update

9:00 Stuart Raeburn: Converting from other Course Management Tools and Interfaces to administrative systems (CMS conversion: web, ppt) (SIS integration: web, ppt)

9:40 Guy Ashkenazi: Using CAPA as an educational research tool

10:10 John Plough and George Macklem: THEDUMP Collaboration

10:25 Ed Kashy: High School Collaborative Project Presentation of THEDUMP as an example of Content Sharing

10:35: Helen Keefe: Orientation for break-out groups and sessions

10:40 Session S2: Break-out Groups and Networking Sessions on Content Sharing and Collaborations

Feel free to move between the rooms – this is a time to network around possible collaborations and content area projects

Corcoran 101: Stanley Su, Sue Legg

Presentation, Stanley Su: Global E-learning Technology and Science

Corcoran, 2^nd floor: Mark Lucas, Gerd Kortemeyer

Corcoran, 2^nd floor: Robley Light, Guy Ashkenazi, Ray Batchelor

Corcoran, 2^nd floor: Carmine Balascio, John Merrill

Corcoran, 2^nd floor: Ed Kashy, High School Teachers

12:00 Lunch (2^nd floor of Corcoran Hall) (write and submit questions for programmers)

1:00 Panel Discussion with Programmers (Corcoran 101)

1:45 Session S3: Parallel Workshops

3:15 Coffee Break (Academic Center)

3:30 Closing Comments (Academic Center)

4:00 Open Work Time (Rome 205)