Provisional Schedule

SIGCSE 2000 Doctoral Consortium

March 8, 2000
Austin, Texas

8:30

30 min

coffee and registration

9:00

30 min

Welcome by Nell Dale, Conference Co-chair
Warm-up activity; using the wall

9:30

15 min

Oliver Grillmeyer (U.C. Berkeley)
Designing effective animations for Computer Science education

9:45

15 min

Debra Burhans (State University of New York at Buffalo)
A characterization of answers in rule-based systems

10:00

5 min

movement break

10:05

15 min

Peter DePasquale (Virginia Tech.)
Concurrent programming aids in CS1/CS2 courses

10:20

15 min

Elizabeth Odekirk-Hash (University of Utah)
Program analysis and hints in beginning programming

10:35

30 min

coffee with activity: Stumbling blocks: how to fail

11:05

15 min

Jennifer Walter (Texas A&M)
Distributed algorithms for mobile computing systems

11:20

15 min

Hope Harley (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Learning object-oriented analysis and design by case study: A minimalist approach

11:35

30 min

The Ph.D. as perfomance art: juggling and storytelling

12:05

5 min

movement break

12:10

15 min

Mary Last, (Kingston University, UK)
Virtual teams in Computing education

12:25

15 min

Martha Hause (Open University, UK)
Communication in remote group learning

12:40

20 min

"Cocktail party" introductions

13:00

90 min

lunch at Fresh Choice Restaurant

14:30

15 min

Lisa Kaczmarczyk (University of Texas at Austin)
Trust in computer software as evidenced by student selection of GRE format

14:45

15 min

Stephanie Ludi (Arizona State University)
Factors affecting the retention of women in the undergraduate Computer Science program

15:00

5 min

movement break

15:05

15 min

Janet Carter (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Peer scaffolding and the learning of programming

15:20

15 min

Cheryl Seals (Virginia Tech.)
A visual programming environment to support novice programmer development of educational simulations

15:35

30 min

Tactics for completion

16:05

15 min

coffee break

16:20

30 min

Strategies for conferencing: Mixer and discussion with members of the SIGCSE Board and SIGCSE 2000 Conference Committee

16:50

15 min

Closing thoughts and feedback

17:05

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