SOCR Events Aug2009

SOCR Events - SOCR 2009 Training & Development Workshop

Workshop Webcasting

Title: Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Probability and Statistics Education Using SOCR Resources

This Program is Still Under Development!!!

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. 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
• Ivo Dinov, UCLA Statistics and Center for Computational Biology
• Rahul Gidwani, UCLA Statistics
• Others

Attendees

Workshop Attendees List & Workshop Email List.

Logistics & Application

We anticipate to be 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.

• Date: Mon-Wed, August 10-12, 2009
• Times: AM & PM Sessions (9AM - 12PM & 1PM - 4 PM)
• Venue/Place: Powell Library (CLICC Classroom C, Powell 320C, Powell Building Realtime WebCam, use only the North-West elevator/stairway)
• Accommodation - UCLA Guest House (Guest House Map) & Hilgard House (Hilgard House Map)
• Local Information: Maps & local visitor information, direct LAX-Westwood Fly-Away Shuttle (every 30 min)
• To Apply: Please submit your application, using this web-application form (form will be available in Fall 2008). 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.
• Funding Support Details: Participants will be staying at UCLA Guest House or Hilgard House for 3 nights (Aug. 09, 10, 11, 2009), these costs are covered by the conference organizers and will be paid directly. In July, each registered participant will have to call the Guest House, identify the Workshop and provide his/her credit card number. All room charges are covered by the organizers, only no-shows will have their credit cards charged. Most meals will be provided during the Workshop, however participants may be responsible for some of their meals. There is no Workshop registration fee nor there are any charges for the Workshop materials which will be distributed. All transportation costs are the attendee's responsibilities.

Workshop Webcasting

• A live webcast (TBD!) of the entire Workshop will be available during the regular sessions
  • Point your browser or your RealPlayer to this URL http://164.67.141.39:8080/ramgen/socr/workshop2009.smil (TBD!)
  • Mon August 10, 2009
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time (17:00 - 20:00 GMT)
    • 1 - 4 PM Pacific Time
  • Tue August 11, 2009
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time
    • 1 - 4 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)

Morning Session - Distributions (8AM - 12PM)

• Registration and Coffee (8:00 - 9:00 AM)
• Welcome, Ivo Dinov, SOCR Director (9:00 - 9:10 AM)
  • Participants Introductions (9:10 - 9:20 AM)
  • Guest Accounts (9:20 - 9:30 AM)
  • The State of the SOCR Resource, Ivo Dinov, (9:30 - 9:40 AM)
• SOCR Distributions - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (9:40 - 9:50 AM)
• Distribution Activities I, Juana Sanchez (9:50 - 10:30 AM)
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Normal Distribution Examples
• Morning Break (10:30 - 10:45 AM)
• Distribution Activities II, Nicolas Christou (10:45 - 11:30 AM)
  • SOCR Discrete Distributions Activity
  • Explore relations between Distributions
  • Solving Practical Problems using SOCR Distributions Applets
• Interactive Discussion on Distributions - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how improve teaching of discrete and continuous distributions (11:30AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

UCLA Faculty Center

Afternoon Session - Experiments & Games (1PM - 4PM)

• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (1:00 - 1:15 PM)
• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities I, Juana Sanchez (1:15 - 2:00 PM)
  • Bivariate Activity
  • Birthday Experiment
• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities II, Nicolas Christou (2:00 - 2:45 PM)
  • Confidence Interval Experiment
  • Roulette Experiment
• Break (2:45 - 3:00 PM)
• Assessing Conceptual Understanding in a First Statistics Course, Rob Gould, PDF (3:00 - 3:50 PM)
• Interactive Group Discussion on Experiments - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and enhance the experiences of others (4:00 - 4:30 PM)

Dinner

6:00-8:30 PM at the Redwood Room in the UCLA Faculty Center

Day 2 (Tue 08/11/09)

Morning Session - SOCR Analyses & Modeler (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Analyses Activities - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (9:00 - 9:15 AM)
• SOCR Analyses, Annie Chu & Ivo Dinov (9:15 - 10:15 AM)
  • ANOVA
  • Other SOCR Analysis Activities (e.g., Simple Linear Regression)
• Break (10:15 - 10:30 AM)
• SOCR Modeler Activities, Ivo Dinov (10:30 - 11:30 AM)
  • SOCR Normal & Beta Distribution Model Fitting
• Group Interactive Discussion on Analyses & Modeler - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how improve teaching of statistical analysis methodologies? (11:30AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

UCLA Faculty Center

Afternoon Session - CAUSE Resources and UCLA Materials (1PM - 4PM)

• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities III, Ivo Dinov (1:00 - 1:50 PM)
  • General Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
  • Law of Large Numbers
• Break (1:50 - 2:00 PM)
• CAUSE Resources for Teaching Statistics, Brian Jersky, St. Mary's College of California (2:00 - 2:50 PM)
• Break (2:50 - 3:00 PM)
• Using technology to enhance the role of writing and assessment in statistics education (PDF; PPT.ZIP), Mahtash Esfandiari, Hai Nguyen, and Chris Barr (3:00 - 3:50 PM)
• Break (3:50 - 4:00 PM)
• Group Interactive Discussion - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and experiences of other participants (4:00 - 4:15 PM)

Social

6-8PM Movie Night, LACMA or TBD (UCLA Transportation is arranged 6-9 PM).

Day 3 (Wed 08/12/09)

Morning Session - EDA/Charts & Development of new Instructional Materials (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Charts Activities, Nicolas Christou, Ivo Dinov & Jenny Cui (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
  • Box-and-Whisker Plots
  • Histogram Generation Activity
  • Random Number Generation
  • Power Transformation Family
• Break (10:00 - 10:15 AM)
• Wiki Editing and Development of new Instructional Materials, Ivo Dinov & Nicolas Christou (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on EDA and Development of Wiki Resources - What works, what doesn't? (11:15AM - 11:30 AM)
• Collaborative AP Statistics E-Book (11:30 - 11:45 AM)
• Workshop Evaluation (11:45 - 12:00 Noon)

Sponsorship

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SOCR	UCLA Statistics	UCLA OID	NSF

Additional Workshop Resources

• 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)

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:

• TBD

Postscript

• Photos (TBD)

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