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Spring/summer inter-session brings with it this year an innovation: a faculty developed, sponsored, and taught two-week computer camp, on the UIC campus, May 6 though May 17. You won't want to miss it! Developed as a joint project of the Senate subcommittee on computing, the Senate Academic Services Committee, and the Computer Center, the two-week voluntary effort will present morning demonstrations and practical seminars on uses of computing facilities by faculty at UIC. Afternoons will be reserved for labs, supervised by Center staff members, in which the faculty campers can try the new techniques learned in the morning sessions. Help will be available on-site in the labs and at the InfoTech Arcade. The content of the Faculty Computer Camp will be presented over four days and will be repeated for a second week. The Faculty Computer Camp has three objectives: (1) to present the fundamentals of academic computing in hands-on sessions, allowing new faculty users to be able to connect to and use the computing resources available at UIC; (2) to demonstrate the potential for new uses of computing in the general undergraduate curriculum; and (3) to use specific "Show and Tell" examples of clever classroom uses of computing at UIC -- demonstrating innovation as it is already being applied to higher education on the campus. The focus of the Faculty Computer Camp is on effective use of new electronic technologies in the curriculum. This effort by faculty is a companion to last summer's Instructional Technologies Improvement Program, which resulted in the purchase of more than 1,000 new computers for faculty use at UIC. The Faculty Computer Camp is intended to be an ongoing effort; it is presented free of charge during the inter-sessions and open to all faculty on a preregistration basis. |
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If you have developed and currently use a clever, innovative, unusual,
or exciting computing application in your classes, please consider volunteering
as a Show and Tell faculty presenter. Selected volunteers will make repeated
demonstration presentations to small groups of faculty during the morning
sessions. Assistance will be available to help you make handouts, slides,
and Web-based demonstration materials for the presentations. Your presentation
will probably be given several times during the morning sessions over the
two-week period.
We need a few good volunteer women and men! Please step forward and identify yourself today by sending email to either Bob Mrtek (mrtek@uic.edu) or Ahmed Kassem (kassem@uic.edu). Do your civic duty and let us all learn from your own good examples for using computing in the classroom. |
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| Coming Soon -- How to Register | ||||
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[Actually, it's here now; see the ../camp/ link below. --Ed.]
The Faculty Computer Camp is still in the planning stages, and we don't have a precise schedule yet. But we do have a World Wide Web home page [gone now -- Ed], and we'll put the schedule and a reservation form there as soon as possible. (We'll distribute written information, too.) So watch the Web -- and your mailboxes -- for future announcements on how to register for the Faculty Computer Camp. As they say, ... details at 10 o'clock! Comments are appreciated; please send them to |
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