This part of the proseminar consists in a series of meetings with the faculty and selected advanced students, each of whom will make a presentation about some current work. The presenter should also solicit and answer questions about the presentation and discuss the relationship between the work presented and the department's major foci. These presentations will occur on two Saturdays, September 23 and October 14.
Each proseminar participant must write a paragraph summary of each presentation, listing its major point or points and indicating how the presenter's work most obviously relates to the department as a whole. The summary should also indicate the strongest and weakest points of: (1) the work presented and (2) the presentation itself. The summary of September 23's faculty presentations is due on October 14. The summary of October 14's advanced student and other presentations is due November 3. Neither document should be more than two pages long.
At 9:30, Professor Taylor will both introduce the proseminar idea and make a brief presentation about the history of computing at Teachers College and the history of this department. He will also comment briefly upon global curriculum and the impact of technology on the world, particularly as it has increased the need for attention to education, globally.
At 10:30, Professor Black will present one of the projects he is currently working on, concerning the utility of certain cognition concepts for school learning. This project is based in a school system in Westchester and will run throughout this academic year, and involve a range of children at different leves in the school system.
At 11:30, Professor Truglio will present four projects she is currently working on, in collaboration with students. She will explain them partly to facility the enlistment of more student participation from Proseminar members.
At 12:30 lunch break will occur.
At 1:30, Professor McClintock will present some of the work he has been doing in trying to advance the appropriate incorporation of technology into the curriculum at all levels of education. In particular, he will discuss some aspects of the Dalton School's effort to completely integrate networking and multimedia through their school and some aspects of ILT's (Institute for Learning Technology) effort to broaden Columbia University's internal and outreach use of high technology for instruction and collaboration.
At 2:30, the day's proseminar activities will end with a discussion of the art assignment, the presentations scheduled for October 14, and some idea of the other aspects of the seminar, including the three written assignments.
10:00 Jean Follansbee A former student and instructor in this department and now Assistant Dean for Academic Computing at Barnard College, will discuss Barnard's attempts to integrate more technology into their curriculum. She will also comment on how her student work and her days as an instructor in this department helped to prepare her for her current work.
10:45 Howard Budin Howard will undoubtedly discuss software for children and the way it contributes to the possibilities of fostering or not fostering cooperative learning. Howard speaks from a long history of involvement in the public schools and from an equally long involvment with testing all types of software for children and of training teaches to use it appropriately.
11:30 David Van Esselstyn David is an advanced student who has been involved in conceiving and implementing several software based projects for youngsters in schools, including the Pineapple Project, conceived and begun first as a final project in TU4022, and now in its third year of life in the Internet. He will present some new map reading skills multimedia ware he is working on with Kim Kastens from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
12:00 Kelli Wills Kelli is a recent MA graduate in technology who will present her work at Mary Mount School where she is implementing a new integration of technology into the curriculum. Kelli may discuss how her work as a student in CCT prepared her for her work "in the real world".
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Mark Keegan Mark will show brief portions of his documentary on Liberian Refugees in the Ivory Coast. This documentary has been screened in several festivals, including the New York Human Rights Festival this past summer. Mark will discuss how his work as a student in CCT several years ago helped to prepare him for the role of documentary film maker, particularly for this documentary.
2:15 Yoon-il Auh Since in addition to his work as an advanced student and as an instructor in this department, Yoon-il is also an accomplished violinist and musical teacher and coach, he is well qaulified to discuss the relationship between music and technology. His presentation will also be directed at helping proseminar students with the musical assignment.
3:00 Professor Taylor The final assignments and meetings of the seminar will be discussed here, indicating arrangments that need to be made, the nature of the written assignment, and the objective of having a musical assignment. A final brief meeting will be scheduled, toward term end, to review the proseminar, at the convenience of the entire group.