SOCR Events Aug2009

SOCR Events: It's Online, Therefore it Exists! 2009 SOCR Training & Development Workshop

Workshop Webcasting

Title

It's Online, Therefore it Exists!
2009 SOCR Continuing Statistics Education Training & Development Workshop

Workshop Summary and Goals

The 2009 SOCR training, continuing education and development workshop will extend the efforts that started at the 2007 SOCR/CAUSEway Workshop. The aims of this workshop are to demonstrate the functionality, utilization and assessment of the current SOCR resources in probability and statistics curricula at different levels. The SOCR Motto It's Online, Therefore it Exists! clearly indicates that all of these tools, activities and materials are freely available over the Internet to the entire community. This workshop will be of most value to AP teachers and college instructors of probability and statistics classes who have interests in exploring novel technology-enhances approaches for improving statistics education. The workshop will provide an interactive forum for exchange of ideas and recommendations for strategies to integrate computers, modern pedagogical approaches, the Internet and new student assessment techniques.

Presenters

• Nicolas Christou, UCLA Statistics
• Annie Chu, UCLA Statistics
• Ivo Dinov, UCLA Statistics and Center for Computational Biology

Attendees

Workshop Attendees List & Workshop Email List.

Logistics

Date, Place and Time

We anticipate being able to host 30-40 workshop participants for this 3-day event. All participants will be partially supported to attend the workshop (room & board), by the NSF-funded SOCR Resource.

• Dates: Mon-Wed, August 10-12, 2009
• Times: AM & PM Sessions (9AM - 12PM & 1PM - 4:30 PM)
• Venue/Place: Powell Library (CLICC Classroom C, Powell 320C, Powell Building Real-time WebCam, use only the North-West elevator/stairway)

Accommodation

• Rooms are reserved in UCLA Hedrick Hall for checking in at 4 PM on Sun 08/09/09 and checking out by 11 AM on Wed 08/12/09. UCLA Catering will provide housing and accommodation to all remote participants.
• Food: Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided. UCLA Dinning AP American Plan will cover all participants staying in the dorms. Participants can use De Neve, Rieber, Hedrick and Covel restaurants/cafeterias. Times for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are 7-9AM, 11:30AM-2PM, 5-8PM, respectively.
• Local Information:
  • UCLA Maps
  • Local visitor information
  • Direct LAX-Westwood Fly-Away Shuttle (every 30 min)
  • Interactive SOCR Google Map

Funding Support

Participants will be staying at UCLA Hedrick Hall for 3 nights (Aug. 09, 10, 11, 2009), these costs are covered by the conference organizers and will be paid directly. Only no-shows will be charged. All meals will be provided during the Workshop. There is no Workshop registration fee nor are there any charges for the Workshop materials which will be distributed. All transportation costs are the attendee's responsibilities.

Application

Please register/submit your application, using this web-application form. Please include all the information requested. We will make any effort to invite as many people as we can physically accommodate, however, we can not guarantee that we have the resources to invite all applicants, or to respond to all applicants that may not be selected (we expect a large number of applicants). Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We will be also web-casting the entire workshop. So, if we do not offer you a slot, you may view this event online. All applications received before May 01, 2009 will receive full consideration.

Workshop Webcasting

• The live stream of the Workshop will be available at mms://164.67.141.39:8080/wmtencoder/socr2009/live.wmv, during the regular sessions. Point your browser to this location.
  • Windows users will need Windows Media Player
  • Mac/Linux users will need Media Player Plug in for Quicktime.
  • The live stream will launch from Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explore. It will not launch from Google Chrome.
  • Mon August 10, 2009
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time (17:00 - 20:00 GMT)
    • 1 - 4:30 PM Pacific Time
  • Tue August 11, 2009
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time
    • 1 - 4:30 PM Pacific Time
  • Wed August 12, 2009
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time
• After the workshop the complete webcast will available at the California Digital Library (as MPEG video-stream files).

Program

Day 1 (Mon 08/10/09)

Workshop Handbook

USB Flash Card (online) and USB Flash Card (ZIP)

SOCR Data

Day 1 (Mon 08/10/09)
Morning Session - Open, Diverse, Motivational, Interactive and Web-based SOCR Datasets (8AM - 12PM)
Time	Presenter	Topic
7:00-8:00AM	Breakfast, UCLA Cafeteria
8:00-9:00AM	Registration
9:00-9:10AM	Ivo Dinov, SOCR Director	Welcome
9:10-9:20AM	Everyone	Participants Introductions
9:20-9:30AM	Ivo Dinov	Guest Accounts
9:30-9:40AM	Ivo Dinov	The State of the SOCR Resource
9:40-10:40AM	Nicolas Christou, SOCR Co-Director	SOCR Open Motivational Datasets
		Research-derived data and a Paired t-test example
		Multi-disciplinary data understanding
10:40-10:50AM	Morning Break
10:50-11:30AM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Open Motivational Datasets (cont.)
		Simulated Data (RNG)
11:30-12:00PM	Everyone	Interactive Discussion on generating data and curricular integration of datasets
12:00-1:00PM	Lunch Break, UCLA Cafeteria

SOCR Tools

Afternoon Session - SOCR Tools (1:00 - 4:30 PM)
Time	Presenter	Topic
1:00-1:30PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Distributions
1:30-2:00PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Experiments
2:00-2:30PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Games
2:30-2:45PM	Afternoon Break
2:45-3:15PM	Annie Chu	SOCR Analyses
3:15-3:45PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Modeler
3:45-4:15PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Charts
3:45-4:15	Everyone	Interactive Group Discussion on Tools for Probability & Stats Education - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and enhance the experiences of others?
6:30-8:00PM	Dinner, UCLA Cafeteria

Day 2 (Tue 08/11/09)

SOCR Activities and Demos

Day 2 (Tue 08/11/09)
Morning Session - SOCR Activities (9AM - 12PM)
Time	Presenter	Topic
7:00-8:30AM	Breakfast, UCLA Cafeteria
9:00-10:00AM	Annie Chu & Ivo Dinov	SOCR Analyses
		1-Way ANOVA
		Simple Linear Regression
10:00-10:30AM	Ivo Dinov	Modeler Activities
		Normal and Beta Model Fitting Activity
		SOCR Mixture Model Fitting Activity
10:30-10:40AM	Morning Break
10:40-11:40 AM	Nicolas Christou	Distribution Activities
		Normal Distribution Activity
		Exploring the relationships between distributions
11:40-12:00PM	Everyone	Group Interactive Discussion on Hands-on Activities - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how to improve teaching of statistical analysis methodologies?
12:00-1:00 PM	Lunch Break, UCLA Cafeteria

Afternoon Session - SOCR Activities (cont.) (1:00 - 4:30 PM)
Time	Presenter	Topic
1:00-2:15PM	Ivo Dinov	Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
2:15-2:45PM	Ivo Dinov	SOCR Experiments
		Hyperbolic and Carousel Navigators
2:45-3:00PM	Afternoon Break
3:00-3:45PM	Nicolas Christou	Confidence Intervals Activity
3:45-4:30PM	Nicolas Christou	SOCR Application Activities
		Portfolio Risk Management
4:30-4:45PM	Everyone	Interactive Group Discussion on Hands-on Activities - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and enhance the experiences of others?
6:30-8:00PM	Dinner, UCLA Cafeteria

Day 3 (Wed 08/12/09)

SOCR Infrastructure

Day 3 (Wed 08/12/09)
Morning Session - SOCR Activities (9AM - 12PM)
Time	Presenter	Topic
7:00-8:30AM	Breakfast, UCLA Cafeteria
9:00-10:15AM	Ivo Dinov	EBook and Exploratory Data Analyses (EDA)
		SOCR Charts & Chart Activities
		SOCR MotionCharts Activities ( Housing Price Index)
		SOCR AP Stats materials
10:15-10:30AM	Morning Break
10:30-11:30AM	Ivo Dinov	Law of Large Numbers (LLN)
11:30-11:45AM	Everyone	Group Interactive Discussion on Hands-on Activities – What works, what doesn’t, how to extend the collection and how to improve teaching of statistical analysis methodologies?
11:45-12:00PM	Workshop Evaluation by Participants
12:00-1:00 PM	Lunch Break, UCLA Cafeteria
1:00-4:00 PM	Afternoon Session - Visit to J. Paul Getty Museum

Sponsorship

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SOCR	UCLA Statistics	UCLA OID	NSF

Additional Workshop Resources

• Attendees Email List (admin)
• SOCR Workshop Community Portal & SOCR Blog
• SOCR User Log Geo-Map & Campus Map
• SOCR_Events_Aug2009_Postings
• SOCR Continuing Statistics Education Training Certificate (template)
• Workshop Flier (PDF) (0.4MB) and Workshop Flier (PDF) (2MB)

SOCR Teaching Statistics with Technology EBook

The complete SOCR Teaching Statistics with Technology EBook is freely available in PDF format from the following digital libraries:

• Handbook: (10MB, low-res) PDF and (320MB, high-res) PDF
• California Digital Library
• E-Library
• GoogleBooks
• ISBN 978-0-615-30464-9
• Library of Congress Control Number: 2009907564

Postscript

• Photos

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