| Consortium for Computing Sciences
in Colleges 12th Annual Central Plains Conference Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri |
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| Friday, April 7th 2006 | ||||
| 9:00 a.m - 12:00 a.m | PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP - Meeting Room A - Union Responding to the Enrollment Crisis - Alternative Strategies to Increase Student Interest in Computer Science Bradley K. Jensen Microsoft |
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| 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH (On Your Own) Food Court on First Floor - Union |
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| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Union Ballroom Welcome NWMSU President, Dr. Dean Hubbard Teaching Computing for Everyone Dr. Mark Guzdial Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | BREAK | |||
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| 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Tom Conoley, Baker University Network Distributed Computing Using DCEZ Chuck Pheatt Emporia State University An Investigation of Web-Page Credibility James Collins Missouri Southern State University |
Tutorial PRESENTATION 1350 Colden Hall Session Chair: Bob Neufeld, McPherson College Exploring Python as a Learning and Teaching Language Part I Brad Miller & David Ranum Luther College |
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| 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | BREAK | |||
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Doug Hawley, William Jewell College Educational Aspects of Sustainable Development Analysis: Computational Models And Software Anatoly Kurkovsky University of the Sciences in Philadelphia K-12 Education Shrinking Future College Graduate Population in Computer Studies Angie Klein William Jewell College |
Tutorial PRESENTATION 1350 Colden Hall Session Chair: Bob Neufeld, McPherson College Exploring Python as a Learning and Teaching Language Part II Brad Miller & David Ranum Luther College |
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| 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | BREAK | |||
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Dennis Herr, Missouri Southern State University Towards The Support Of Cognitive Flexibility In Hypertext Design Cecil Schmidt Washburn University Student Portfolios And Software Quality Metrics In Computer Science Education Arnold L. Patton & Monica McGill Bradley University |
Panel Meeting Room D - Union How Do CS/IS Departments Respond to Decline in Enrollment in the Computing Professions Moderator: William Remington, Emporia State University Khaled Alshare, Emporia State University Ernie Ferguson, Northwest Missouri State University Charles Pheatt, Emporia State University Mahmoud Yousef, Central Missouri State University |
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| 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. | DINNER Dining Room 2 - Union |
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| 7:15 p.m. | DINNER SPEAKER Union Ballroom Luck Beats Brains: A Personal History of Computing Jean Bartik One of the Original ENIAC Programmers |
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| After Speaker | CCSC: CP Board Meeting | Tours of Northwest's Computer Museum | ||
| Saturday, April 8th 2006 | ||||
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Union Boardroom |
STUDENT WEB CONTEST 1350 Colden Hall | ||
| Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Ron McCleary, Avila University Are High School Graduates Technologically Ready For Post-Secondary Education? Carolyn Hardy & Phil Heeler Northwest Missouri State University David Brooks University of Nebraska–Lincoln Research Exercises: Immersion Experiences To Promote Information Literacy Henry M. Walker & Kevin Engel Grinnell College |
Tutorial PRESENTATION Meeting Room D - Union Session Chair: Bruce Mechtly, Washburn University Wireless and Mobility and their Security Related Issues and Enhancements Wen-Jung Hsin Park University |
Vendor Presentation Meeting Room B - Union SafariU: Build the perfect textbook for your technology class with O'Reilly Media's SafariU Derek Chase O'Reilly Media, Inc. | |
| 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | BREAK | |||
| 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Mahmoud Yousef, Central Missouri State University Teaching Computing On The Web: A Survey Of Computer Science Faculty Rick Matzen & Rad Alrifai Northeastern State University Exploring Linux As An Operating System In The CS Curriculum E. Grant Eastman Central Washington University |
NIFTY COURSE ASSIGNMENTS Meeting Room D - Union Session Chair: Judy Mullins, University of Missouri--Kansas City Hack This - Reverse Engineering A Network Server Arnold L. Patton Bradley University Computer Networking in a Senior Level Course Chia-Chu Chiang University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
Meeting Room B - Union Birds of a Feather Session For High School Computing Teachers | |
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | BREAK | Student Posters on Display Union Boardroom | ||
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS Meeting Room A - Union Session Chair: Rick Barker, Washburn University A Learning-Centered Approach To Designing Computer Science Courses Venkat N Gudivada Marshall University Jagadeesh Nandigam Grand Valley State University Devanur S. Guru University of Mysore Asserting The Inherent Benefits Of Hands-On Laboratory Projects Vs. Computer Simulations David Heise Columbia College |
NIFTY COURSE ASSIGNMENTS Meeting Room D - Union Session Chair: Cindy Hanchey, Oklahoma Baptist University Sudoku Puzzles Jeffrey Edgington University of Denver Role Playing in Object-Oriented Programming and Design Courses Ernest Ferguson Northwest Missouri State University |
Student Posters on Display Union Boardroom | |
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. | BREAK | |||
| 12:15 p.m. -1:15 p.m. | LUNCH Dining Room 2 - Union | |||
| 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | STUDENT AWARDS & MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS MEETING | |||
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | BREAK | |||
| 2:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | STUDENT PROGRAMMING CONTEST Colden Hall | |||