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Conference Program 1997 Annual
Conference of the Association for Computer Educators
in Texas
September 25-27, San Antonio Airport
Hilton

Pre-conference Seminar
- Thursday, September 25, 1997 [San Antonio
College]

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PreConference Seminar (9:00 - 3:30
p.m.)
Moving from the Desktop
to the Cyberdesk: the Integration of Office 97
and the Internet
Presenter: H. Albert
Napier, Ph.D., Rice
University
Office 97 moves individuals
from a desktop emphasis to a cyberdesk
orientation. In Office 97, individuals can
create hyperlinks between documents in one
application or to documents in other
applications. Furthermore, you can use the
applications to place pages on the World Wide
Web. These new capabilities further enhance the
document integration of the various
applications. Most of the session includes
hands-on exercises illustrating some of the new
features included in
Office 97 and the transition from a traditional
desktop to cyberdesk orientation. The remaining
segment of the session addresses teaching the
Internet on-line and off-line.
A sample of the capabilities
illustrated include: creating and publishing Web
pages, searching the WWW while using a desktop
application, building hyperlinks between
documents in various applications, animation in
presentations and documents, sending e-mail, and
integrating documents across
applications. Hands-on--Everyone will have a
computer.
The
PreConference will be held at San Antonio
College (Nail
Technology Center), 1300 San
Pedro Ave.,
San Antonio (I35 - San Pedro
Exit) |

Friday-Saturday,
September 25-27

| 8:00
a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Registration/Exhibits |
| 9:00
a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
- Opening General Session:
What’s Hot - What’s Not
- Gary Shelly, Author, Shelly
Cashman Series
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| 10:00 a.m. - 10:15
a.m. |
Exhibits/Refreshments |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:05
a.m. |
- Q & A with Gary
Shelly
- Gary Shelly, Author, Shelly
Cashman Series
- The Integrated Learning
System
- Marilyn Jones,
Vice-President Sales, Cambridge Knowledge
Systems
- This
session will focus on Instructor-Led training,
the Electronic Classroom and demonstration of
the document management system for customized
curriculum.
- Teaching C++: The Pros
and Cons - Panel discussion
- Steve Kolars, San Antonio
College & Joseph Austin, Wiley
College
- This
discussion session will present the ups and
downs of teaching C++ from the instructor’s
point of view.
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| 11:05 a.m. - 11:20
a.m. |
Exhibits/Refreshments |
| 11:20 a.m. - 12:05
p.m. |
- Learning Beyond
Boundaries-Integrating Internet Activities in
the Classroom
- Debra Harper, Montgomery
College
- This
session will present techniques on integrating
the internet into the classroom as another tool
of learning.
- CBT: The New Teaching
Tool
- Susan Collins, Course
Technology, Inc.
- This
session will discuss and demonstrate two
different ways to incorporate CBT into your
programs and classroom.
- Hot Programming
Languages: Some Old and Some New
- Mary Rose & Margaret
Allison, The University of Texas-Pan
American
- The
presenters will present their findings of a
survey of advertisements in newspapers for
programming language skills in an effort to
determine What’s Hot and What’s
Not.
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| 12:05 p.m. - 1:30
p.m. |
- Luncheon: Computer
Decency Act (CDA) and Acceptable Use
Policies
- Tim Gottleber, North Lake
College
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| 1:30
p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
- Exhibits
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| 1:45
p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
- Teaching an Introduction
to Computers Course through the
Internet
- Luis Lopez, St. Philips
College
- The
presenter will present the college’s experience
on teaching courses through the
WWW.
- Teaching JAVA: An
Instructor’s Perspective
- Sean McNeal, San Antonio
College
- This
presentation will focus on the teaching
experiences of JAVA the language: what’s working
and what’s not.
- Assessment and
Evaluation: Kelly’s Pinpoint
- Howard Weiner, Macmillan
Computer Publishing Company/QUE E&T
- This
presentation will demonstrate a tool to
determine skill level prior to class that
simultaneously designs an individualized
training program fro each
student.
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| 2:30
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Exhibits/Refreshments |
| 3:00
p.m. - 4:45 p.m. |
- Reaching Out! New
Dimensions in Distance Learning
- Darrell Ward, Hypergraphics
Educational Systems
- This
presentation will discuss and demonstrate two
forms of distance learning.
- Multimedia on the Web
for Computer Using Educators
- Stephen McGloughlin,
University of California Davis
- This
session will review the application of
multimedia and internet technology to the
education process.
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Saturday,
September 27, 1997

| 9:00
a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
- Visual BASIC: A Hot New
Programming Language
- Mary L. Rose, The
University of Texas-Pan American
- This
session will present a demonstration of Visual
BASIC as the first programming
language.
- Incorporating Windows NT
in the curriculum
- Ray Walls, San Antonio
College
- The
presenter will share his experience in teaching
Windows NT or the last two
years.
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| 10:00 a.m. 10:50 a.m. |
- How Can Higher Education
Prepare Students for the Corporate
Environment?
- Ed Socha, College of
Mainland; Susan Orr & Mary Myers,
VALIC
- This
session will present on what corporations are
looking for in the graduates? How can corporate
and higher education work together to prepare
students for the workplace in the field of
technology?
- Desktop Computing,
Beyond the Basics
- Richard Fisher, University
of Texas-Dallas
- This
session will focus on three fundamental skill
areas useful in today’s business
environment-Business modeling, Database
implementation and Web site
design
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| 11:00 a.m. - 11:50
a.m |
- WECM: Changes and
Effects on the Computer Curriculum
- Ron Curry, THECB
- This
session will bring you to speed on the WECM
project. During the 1997-98 academic year THECB
will be evaluating the computer related
courses.
- Electronic Commerce and
EDI
- Jerry Lowe & Denise
Taylor, ECRC-San Antonio
- This
session will demonstrate how internet could be
utilized to perform electronic commerce and what
is required to get started.
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| 12:00 p.m. - 1:30
p.m. |
Luncheon/Prizes/Business
Meeting |
| Post-Conference - September 27, 1997
(2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Advisory Committees: -
It’s importance in development of curriculum and
partnerships
The Computer Information
System Advisory Committee members of San Antonio
College will provide the participants
with an insight about how a
strong and vibrant advisory committee can assist
in curriculum development, equipment
purchasing,
donations, forming partnerships,
etc.
In today’s shrinking dollars
from the state, it is important that schools and
colleges form partnership to stay abreast
of the changing technology
and to have a vibrant faculty so that we prepare
our students for the changing workforce
demands. This session will
offer adequate information about the importance
of the advisory committee and its role
in building a strong
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