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Monday, June 19, 2000<br>
    Usenix, San Diego<br>
    http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cra/etw/ </h3>

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<h4> Presenters:</h4>

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  <li> <a href="http://umbc.edu/~finin"> Timothy Finin</a>, University of Maryland, 
    Baltimore County (UMBC) 
  <li> <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~horwitz/"> Susan Horwitz</a>, University 
    of Wisconsin, Madison 
  <li><a href="http://www.research.att.com/info/andrew/">Andrew Hume</a>, ATT 
  <li> <a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~korf/"> Richard Korf</a>, University of 
    California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
  <li> <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~nicholas/charles_nicholas.html"> Charles 
    Nicholas</a> , University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) 
  <li> <a href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/"> Margo Seltzer</a>, Harvard University
  <li>More to come...
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<h4><a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cra/etw98/links.shtml"> Resources </a></h4>


<h4> Tentative Schedule </h4>


<h4>Registration and contenental breakfast<br>
8:00 - 8:30</h4>

<h4>Introduction<br>
  8:30 - 8:40<br>
Tim Finin</h4>

Introduce the presenters, Discuss how the day will be organized, cover
various hand outs and on-line resources, etc.

<h4>Balancing teaching, research and service<br>
  8:40 - 9:00<br>
Lead: Tim Finin</h4>

Presentation and discussion of how to balance teaching and service
with research.  Topics will include: achieving synergy between
teaching and research, teaching subjects in your research area
vs. service courses, using advanced seminars, attracting new research
students, keeping an eye on tenure and promotion issues, etc.
workload, negotiating with your chair, release time from teaching,
credit for developing new courses and curricula, seminars vs. core
courses vs. special courses, working toward common goals, how a
University views teaching, teaching evaluations, teaching awards,
teaching and tenure, etc.


<h4>Mentoring students and managing RAs and TAs<br>
  9:00 - 9:45<br>
Lead: Charles Nicholas</h4>

Presentation and discussion of issues in mentoring students and managing graduate 
assistants. Topics will include: advising PHD students, Advising MS students, 
working with advanced undergraduate students, special needs of part-time graduate 
students, mentoring in general, attracting graduate students, how many students 
should you advise, how to be a bad advisor, special issues (marriage, kids, start-ups, 
...), etc. Training your TAs, undergraduate vs. graduate TAs, graders, TAs who 
don't work, TAs who work too much, running a big course with an army of TAs, training 
TAs, managing RAs, etc. 
<h4>Internships, coops and summer jobs<br>
  9:45 - 10:30<br>
  Lead: Andrew Hume, ATT</h4>
<p>Your students can learn a lot by working via a coop program, a summer internship 
  or the right summer jobs. This presentation will cover such topics as how to 
  help your students find opportunities and how to make sure its a good edcuational 
  ecxperience as well as good for the employer. </p>
<h4>Break<br>
  10:30 - 11:00</h4>

<h4>Active learning I<br>
  11:00 - 12:30<br>
Lead: Susan Horwitz</h4>

Make your teaching more effective and more fun by incorporating active
learning techniques!  Specific examples will be discussed, including
the use of dramatizations to present new concepts.  Participants will
then work in small groups to design their own dramatizations, which
will be presented to the whole group as time allows.


<h4>Lunch<br>
  12:30 - 1:30</h4>

<h4>Active learning II<br>
  1:30 - 3:00<br>
  Lead: Susan Horwitz</h4>

Groups will present their active learning dramatizations and discuss the outcome.
<h4>Break<br>
  3:00 - 3:30</h4>

<h4>The devil is in the details<br>
  3:30 - 4:30<br>
  Lead: Richard Korf, UCLA</h4>
Presentation and discussion of a number of logistical issues, including teaching 
tips, dealing with difficult students, dealing with cheating, how much homework, 
assignments vs. projects, common pitfalls and mistakes, office hours, handling 
large classes, dealing with lab-oriented classes, etc. Using the internet and 
web, effective use of email and newsgroups, slides vs. the blackboard, how to 
distribute your notes, distance learning, using videos, mbone broadcasts, etc.
<h4>Building and using a laboratory<br>
  4:30- 5:30<br>
  Margo Seltzer, Harvard</h4>
<p>How to build up, maintain and make effective use of a lab for teaching and 
  research</p>

<h4>Wrap up discussion<br>
  5:30 - 6:00<br>
All</h4>

Hand out evaluation form and solicit feedback, what topics weren't
covered but should be in the future?

<h4>Closing<br>
  6:00 </h4>

<h4>Dinner and informal discussion<br>
7:00pm<br>
tbd</h4>