JCSE Online
September 2002
HOW-DEEE! (Did you think of Minnie Pearl?) I keep looking for slightly different ways to open these messages. My hope is that I do or say something to lighten your day and also encourage you to examine your current issue of JCSE Online.
Here we are again, off to a new year. I hope yours has started well. Mine has been a bit hectic. As usual I was not as ready as I wanted to be when the students showed up. So, I am burning a little evening and weekend oil. (Thank goodness I no longer stay at work long enough to burn "midnight" oil!) My wish is that you work a bit more efficiently than I do and, thus, do not have to put in much overtime.
NECC 2002 Wrap-Up
A couple years ago, SIGCS helped establish the Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) Symposium. And in the first issue of the Journal of Computer Science Education that fall, we published an article about it and pointed to our Web page where most of the presentations were available. With our online format, we are close to making that practice into a tradition. Last year at this time, the first issue of JCSE Online was mostly devoted to the Symposium. This year we continue that practice. This issue has two parts—a business component and an article describing CS&IT Symposium 2002.
Business Information
The business part contains minutes of our annual meeting and an annual report we submitted to ISTE. The annual report is written is such a way (by me, as SIGCS Chair) that I had to create a separate document (or part) to tell you how to interpret it. We hope you can gain enough insight to see what your SIG volunteer leaders are doing. If not, contact me and I will try to communicate better. Once you understand what is happening you might agree or disagree with the current direction. In either case, your participation is encouraged.
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CS & IT Symposium
Kate Conley has done a very nice job communicating the content and atmosphere of the Symposium. From her article, you can access most of the presentations given. Clearly it is better to have been at the session than to just see the materials, but I suspect you can gain something useful from this material. Give it a shot. I thought all the sessions I attended were quite good. I was particularly impressed with the media literacy featured session. If you get a chance to see a presentation by one of those folks, take it!
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Planning for the Future
I encourage you to mark your calendar for the next Symposium. It will be held in conjunction with NECC 2003 in Seattle (www.neccsite.org). It is worth a lot more than the charge (a refundable deposit).
I hope you enjoy this issue of JCSE Online. As always, let us know what you think. Also, consider submitting something—peer-reviewed article; favorite lesson or Web site; book, software, or workshop review; editorial; letter to the editor; and so on—anything helpful to high school computer science teachers.
Have a good day. Have a good year.
Philip East
Interim Editor
east@cs.uni.edu
Note: All Web links in this issue were active as of the post date (September 25, 2002). However, the Web is volatile, and neither ISTE nor SIGCS have any control over external sites. Please contact senior editor Jennifer Roland (jroland@iste.org) if you have a fix for a broken link.
Copyright © 2002, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). All rights reserved.
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