Xref: utzoo comp.edu:4082 misc.education:1439 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!rex!wuarchive!udel!haven!umd5!eyu From: eyu@umd5.umd.edu (Ellen Yu) Newsgroups: comp.edu,misc.education Subject: *SUMMARY* Materials/examples of computers in classrooms [LONG] Keywords: Computers Classrooms Summary Message-ID: <8237@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 01:30:37 GMT Reply-To: eyu@umd5.umd.edu (Ellen Yu) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 554 At long last! I've finally gotten around to putting together this summary. Thanks to all who sent replies, specifically: Mark _E_ Amos mamos@uafhp.uark.edu Jonathan White whitejon@acf5.NYU.EDU Marc H. Brown mhb@src.dec.com Rick Conn xanadu@ada2.crd.ge.com james peterson petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu Guy Helmer dsuvax!ghelmer@uunet.UU.NET Evelyn Stevens evelyn@brahms.udel.edu Russell Shackelford russ@prism.gatech.edu Robert Brewer bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU Ellen Spertus erspert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Stan Godlovitch sgodlovitch@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA George Leach ames!pdn.paradyne.com!reggie Mike Clarke MCLARKE@AC.DAL.CA Sally Anger SRA3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Al Yackulic YACKULIC@sask.usask.ca Martha Welte welte@cs.Buffalo.EDU Peter Montgomery pmontgom@math.ucla.edu Lisa Wolfisch lingling@wam.umd.edu Herb Brown hb136@leah.Albany.edu Here's my original request: #Hi all! I'm not sure if this is the right group to post to - if it isn't #I'd appreciate suggestions on where to post this. # #I'm a graduate student in Computer Science and I'm working on a project #for a course. I'm looking for colleges and universities that have #implemented the use of computers in classrooms. I'm looking for all #types of applications - from using a computer for presentations during #a lecture to a room full of computers networked together for collaborative #work. I'd appreciate any information on schools and names of contacts and #a description (if you have one) of what's being done. # #My target is applications in undergraduate education from community #college #level to large universities. # #Thanks in advance for any suggestions/info provided. Please e-mail #responses. #If anyone is interested in the information I receive, I will post a summary. # #- Ellen Yu Here are the replies: From: Mark _E_ Amos We use computers in classrooms here in various ways you have described. If you are interested in more info you can either mail me (some info) or get hold of the people/places I list below (more detailed info). Dr. Ron Skieth - Department Head Computer Science Engineering Dept. University of Arkansas Engineering Hall 313 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501)575-6036 Dr. Jim Gattis - Associate Dean College of Engineering Office of the Dean Bell Engineering Center 4183 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501)575-3051 Hope this helps! Mark -- oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Mark _E_ Amos University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu mea1@engr.uark.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: whitejon@acf5.NYU.EDU (jonathan white) try contacting Jerry Marsdon (Marsden) at U.C. Berkeley they've done a whole lot of stuff thatwas recently implemented try marsden@cartan.berkeley.edu or @math.berkeley.edu jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mhb@src.dec.com (Marc H. Brown) Here are a few references about the "Electronic Classroom" at Brown University, a lecture hall with about 60 Apollo workstations used mostly for teaching computer science courses: AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Norman K. Meyrowitz and Andries van Dam, TITLE = Personal Computer Networks and Graphical Animation: Rationale and Practice for Education, JOURNAL = ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, VOLUME = 15, NUMBER = 1, MONTH = February, YEAR = 1983, PAGES =296--307 AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Robert Sedgewick TITLE = Progress Report: Brown University Instructional Computing Laboratory JOURNAL = ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, VOLUME = 16, NUMBER = 1, MONTH = February, YEAR = 1984, PAGES = 91--101 AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Robert Sedgewick TITLE = Techniques for Algorithm Animation JOURNAL = IEEE Software VOLUME = 2 NUMBER = 1 MONTH = January YEAR = 1985 PAGES = 28--39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: xanadu@ada2.crd.ge.com (Rick Conn) Ellen, I saw your posting asking for people to respond who have used PCs in the classroom. I teach a graduate/senior undergraduate course in software engineering with Ada at the University of Cincinnati, and I use a PC during class for live demonstrations and online, in-class programming exercises. I also teach Ada and C programming classes (introductory and advanced) at General Electric for their after-hours program, and I use a PC during class for these courses at GE as well. Finally, I have given presentations (at conferences and at General Electric) using a PC to present the slides and animate the presentations. Feel free to contact me at rconn@ada2.crd.ge.com if you want to discuss this topic further. Rick Conn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department The University of Illinois pioneered the PLATO system (now sold by Control Data) and uses their (quite mature) system in a wide range of classes. The Illinois English dept uses networked PC's to teach composition. Colorado State used a somewhat more sophisticated system to teach composition, making use of ATT's Writer's Workbench to diagnose grammatical problems. I am not certain, but I think the University of Utah (or Utah State) uses a similar system.... -- james lee peterson petersja@CS.ColoState.edu dept. of computer science colorado state university "Some ignorance is invincible." ft. collins, colorado (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-2293) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dsuvax!ghelmer@uunet.UU.NET (Guy Helmer) Hi! Here at Dakota State University, our mission was changed in 1984 to focus on providing instruction in computers. To that end, DSU received large amounts of funding to purchase large amounts of computing equipment and develop or purchase software. Now, we have one computer for every six or seven students and a reasonably large network to support the computing systems. Originally, the plan was to develop an authoring package that would allow any teacher to develop lessons that a student could work through on the computers --- a one-on-one, interactive computer-based learning system. After several years and administration changes, the university has settled on using mostly off-the-shelf software packages (WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE) to do regular coursework on. The change in the university is profound --- students and faculty have become very reliant on computing systems in ways that we hadn't planned seven years ago. The original plan to develop computer-based interactive learning systems has all but been abandoned. The demand placed on our computing systems by both the software packages and the users of the software requires our Computing Services department to continually plan and implement upgrades in the facilities to keep abreast of demand. I believe our experience is quite unique. If you wish to discuss it, I would be happy to answer any questions. -- Guy Helmer helmer@sdnet.bitnet, uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer Dakota State University Computing Services ------------------- (605) 256-5315 MidIX -- networks, databases, DOS, UNIX, & MINIX ------------- (605) 256-2788 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: evelyn@brahms.udel.edu (Evelyn Stevens) Hi, Ellen: The list of applications at the University of Delaware is pretty long and varied; so much so, that it would be easier for me and probably more useful to you if I sent you the latest Annual Report from Academic Computing and Instructional Technology. The report describes the latest applications and lists the names of faculty and professional staff contacts. I could mail one out next week (for the academic year 1989/1990). If you'd rather get a one- or two-page digest, I'll give it my best shot, probably during the weekend or early next week. You could have both. I would be interested in a summary of responses. Let me know, whichever way. Evelyn V. Stevens Sr. Applications Programmer/Analyst ----- Evelyn V. Stevens E-mail: evelyn@brahms.udel.edu Academic Computing Services evelyn@udelvm.bitnet 035 Smith Hall Phone: 302-451-6812 (late p.m.) University of Delaware 453-4240 (late a.m. Newark, DE 19716 to mid p.m.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: russ@prism.gatech.edu (Russell Shackelford) We're doing some interesting stuff here at GaTech WRT undergrad CS instruction. It concerns capturing and using data about student performance to improve the instructional process. We're using a soon-to-be-released MS-DOS product called Optimus. Don't have time to get into this at the moment. If you want more info, contact me via e-mail in a couple of weeks. I should be able to tell you some specifics at that time..... good luck with your work, russ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Robert Brewer) Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 I am not sure if this is what you want Ellen, but Dr. David Peters did his dissertation at the University of Illinois on the implementation of computers in music classrooms. He now owns a company in Champaign, IL called Electronic Music Software (I think). . He is on the faculty at the U of I and can be contacted in the music building in Urbana, IL. (217)333-2029. Dr. Peters is probably abrest of all the educational applications, particularly those in music. Hope this helps. Bob |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| | Bob Brewer, Instructor of Low Brass and Music Education | | Director, Jazz Studies and the Rocky Mountain Jazz Orchestra (RMJO) | | Department of Music, Theatre and Dance | | Colorado State University at Fort Collins | | Office phone: 303-491-6957 | | | | Internet address: bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU | |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erspert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has an excellent undergraduate computer system, Project Athena. It is both used individually and for classes. The manager of external relations is Catherine Avril. Her email address is cavril@athena.mit.edu. Her phone number is 617-253-0141, and her address is: Project Athena E40-351 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Hope that helps. Ellen Spertus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sgodlovitch@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA Ellen Yu, Further to your posting on the newsnet, I can offer some information about my own use of computers in the classroom. Every semester for the past 5 years, I've taught courses in formal logic to 1st and 2nd year students at my College. As an integral part of the course, I require students to become familiar with a few dedicated applications; e.g., software for symbolic logic from LCA Software (NY), QX Software (KY), and a large program called SANDY from the U. of Miami. Initially, the material was available only on the VAX. Now we run it on a network of IBM-compatibles. The software performs a number of tasks: (1) it gener- ates examples demonstrating the use of the concepts of soundness and validity; (2) it checks symbolizations from English into the language of first-order logic; (3) it acts as a proofchecker and and proof gener- ator when required. I've got virtually free access to a 25 seat lab, so I regularly schedule classes in it. Many of my colleagues from other schools haven't this freedom. Logic software abounds these days. You can get a huge amount of information about it from CDEC, the Center for the Development of Educational Computing at Carnegie-Mellon. A chap called Leslie Burkholder is in charge and is editor of a quarterly called Computers & Philosophy. At UMCP (I'm a recent graduate - PhD in philosophy last May), you might contact Lars Svenonius in the Phil Dept. Lars has written some logic software and uses it, I be- lieve, in some of his classes. I hope this is useful. Best wishes. Stan Godlovitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ames!pdn.paradyne.com!reggie (George Leach) Organization: AT&T Suncoast Division, Largo FL Ellen, Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Dr. Murray Turoff, both at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, have been involved in the computerized conferencing area for a long time. Furthermore, they have been exploring the virtual classroom concept since 1968. I received my MSCS from NJIT about three and a half years ago. One of the courses I took there involved the heavy usage of the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES). Dr. Shneiderman at UMD knows Turoff and Hiltz and their work quite well. You may want to talk to him before proceeding. His e-mail address is mimsy!ben. The phone number I have for Dr. Turoff is (201) 596-3399. I'm not sure if this has changed or not since I left New Jersey in 1987. I don't have a current e-mail address to give you either. The main switchboard at NJIT is (201) 596-3000. You can call there and ask for the Computer Science Department, and from there reach either Hiltz or Turoff. One of my good friends still teaches at NJIT in the evenings. However, he is not involved with Turoff or Hiltz. But he may be able to obtain contact info for you, if you don't want to phone NJIT. His name is Frank Greco. He is currently consulting with Shearson, Lehman, Hutton, in New York and can be reached at fgreco@shearson.com. Good Luck, George -- George W. Leach AT&T Paradyne reggie@paradyne.com Mail stop LG-133 Phone: 1-813-530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 FAX: 1-813-530-8224 Largo, FL 34649-2826 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MCLARKE@AC.DAL.CA Try the Ontario Dept. of Education, who in association with Bull Systems has been trying to implement this strategy and even went to the extent of designing their own computer system (Icon) or (Beaver) I think. That is Ontario, Canada. If you are looking for a phone number try area code 416 for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The office is a provincially run government depeartment. Mike Clarke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: