Pathways Agenda

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Related pages:

• Invitation and logistics
• Itinerary and travel schedules for all the participants

N.B. - This is a work in progress.

Schedule

• Friday evening
  • Most people will be in by 6:30-7:00 at night, with Anand as probably the lone exception. We may want to just linger down in the Marriott restaurant.
• Saturday Morning
  • 8:00 Breakfast over at Shodor
  • Bob will start off at 8:30, with a bit of Panoff wisdom and grace.
  • Large group items from the list below.
• Saturday Afternoon
  • Disciplinary items
• Saturday Evening
  • Large group items (mechanical stuff?)
• Sunday Morning
  • Optional breakfast for those folks still around?

Large Group Items

• Formalize goals and outcomes for the Pathways and SC Ed program activities
• Identify needed computational resources (software, hardware)
• Working with workshop hosts to develop curriculum
• Working with workshop hosts on marketing
• Working with Krell to arrange travel and lodging for instructors
• Expense tracking and reimbursements
• Assistant instructors
• Organizing and publishing curriculum materials
• Participant surveys, instructor evaluations and database maintenance
• Publishing workshop content with Moodle, Drupal, and Wikis (why, importance)
• Sources of presentations to use for opening events, CSERD, etc.
• Things to cover at each workshop
  • CSERD - what it is, how you can use it, how you can submit materials
  • Summer workshops
  • November SC Education Program event
  • Student Scientific Programming Competition (at SC09)
  • Year-round program events
  • Resources - BobSCEd, BCCD, Virtual Rounds
  • Awards - Verona, Panoff, UCES
  • Our sponsors
  • How you can get involved
• Traveling library
• Meet and greet all of the other wonderful instructors involved in the program

Disciplinary Break-out Items

• Establish curriculum for the summer workshops
  • Discipline specific
  • CSERD, collaboration tools?, other common items?
  • Participant projects
• Identify omissions in our current offerings
• Identify additional instructors and assistant instructors for the summer workshops
• Shore up computational resources needed to support the workshops
• Plan for discipline-specific Pathways follow-up meetings
• Publishing workshop content with Moodle, Drupal, and Wikis (how and where for each discipline)