SOCR Events Aug2009
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SOCR Events: It's Online, Therefore it Exists! 2009 SOCR Training & Development Workshop
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:
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)
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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)
| 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 Rick 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)
| 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
- ISBN 978-0-615-30464-9
- Library of Congress Control Number: 2009907564
Postscript
- Photos (TBD)
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