Conference Program
1996 Annual Conference of the
Association for Computer Educators in Texas

October 3 - 5, Austin North Hilton and Towers

This program is subject to change - last update on 9/7/96

Pre-conference Seminar - Thursday, October 3, 1996
9:00am-3:00pm HTML and WWW Design
Sue Conger, Southern Methodist University
Bring your laptop (optional) and build a Web page, beginning with basic html and design tenets. Learn to build pages that include graphics, e-mail return, and linkages to other pages. The phases of Web site development will also be covered Participants will have an opportunity to practice the ideas presented throughout the session.
Friday, October 4
8:00am-5:00pm Registration / Exhibits
9:00am-10:15am Opening General Session: The Future-State Technology Standards
Dr. Pat Smith, Temple Junior College
In keeping with the theme of the conference she will present information about the future of State standards for technology in education. Dr. Smith served on a committee that was concerned with this issue, and she will inform us about the content of the committee's final report and prospects for the future. Even though her committee was responsible for making recommendations to the Texas Coordinating Board for Higher Education, future actions in this area may very well influence the future of K-12 computer education.
10:30am-11:20am Building Bridges for Introduction to Computers
Madhavi Sethna, Carroll Technical Institute, Carrollton, GA
Ms. Sethna will share with participants ideas, pedagogy and techniques for retraining adult learners and ways to teach them skills related to computer literacy and information technology.

Teaching A Separate Programming Logic Class (It Works)
Herb Rebhun, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX
Herb will present the results of teaching an Algorithm and Programming Logic course as a prerequisite to language classes. Participants will learn how this improved the success rate for students in COBOL classes.

Desktop Videoconferencing-A Demonstration
Ruth Sotdhard, T.O.T.A.L. Marketing, Fort Worth, TX
She will present a demonstration of some new technology in Videoconferencing.

11:30am-12:20pm Experience May Still be the Best Teacher
Mary Rose, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Mary will present the results of a study of students who were taught computer literacy in a lecture only class with unsupervised work on a computer as compared to students who were taught computer literacy with a supervised required lab. Participants will learn about the results of this study.

Self Directed Learning: Doing It Your Way
Frank Viso, Tyler Small Business Development Center, Tyler, TX
Frank will give a presentation on Self Directed Learning. Participants will be exposed to a model that is more than just self paced learning.

Distance Learning-Getting It All Together - Resources in the Classroom
Ruth Southard, T. 0. T. A. L. Marketing, Fort Worth, TX
Ruth will discuss the distribution of voice, video, and data; it will include distance learning.
12:30pm-1:50pm Luncheon: Back to the Future Tim Gottleber, Northlake College, DCCCD, Irving, TX
2:00pm-2:50pm Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Update
Charles Cook, THECB, Community and Technical College Division, Austin, TX Charles will discuss the new guide lines for Workforce Education that were published in the Spring of 1996. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions about how to implement the new CB guidelines.

Technological Competence: A Plan to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks
Margaret Allison, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX Margaret will present A Plan to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks. Participants will learn how better to move their schools into the new era of technological changes.

3:00pm-3:50pm New Technologies in Adult Basic Education
Karen Eckarcit, Adult Basic Education Specialist
Sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Chesterfield, MO

Roundtable Discussion: ACET WEB Site
Richard Fisher, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Richard will facilitate a discussion on the future of ACET's Home Page on the World Wide Web.

4:00pm-5:00pm ACET Exhibits
6:00pm - ??? President's Reception & Dinner at Carmelo's
Come by and visit with old friends and make some new ones. Refeshments and light snacks will be served. After the reception, we will travel to downtown Austin to dine at Carmelo's (please see Registration form to reserve your place for dinner)
Saturday, October 5
9:00am-9:50am Making Accessible for the Deaf: CD-ROM Reading Software
Gerald Pollard, Texas School for the Deaf, Austin, TX

Teaching Keyboarding: Why You Should and How You Can Do It
Cheryl Cerri-Liamas, The Woodlands, TX
Sponsored by: Bytes of Learning Incorporated, Willowdale, Ontario Canada
Cheryl will give a presentation on the how and why of teaching keyboarding. Participants will learn how to deal more effectively with the issue of teaching keyboarding.

10:00am-10:50am Cooperative Learning Strategies in College-Level Computer Classes
Joseph Austin, Ambassador University, Big Sandy, TX
Joseph will present a survey of cooperative and collaborative learning in college computer courses. Participants will learn about the results of his survey.

Special Session

11:00am-11:50am MOOving Forward with Educational MOO's
Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik (at a remote location) from the University of Bergen, Norway will present "MOOving Forward With Educational MOOs". In the future present, technologies that utilize internet-based programs in computer networked labs and classrooms are rapidly becoming the pedagogical choice of teachers at all types of institutions at all levels of education. One particularly popular program is called MOO (Multi-user Domain, Object-Oriented). This presentation will chronicle the creation of Lingua MOO and will be conducted by two presenters, one in Norway and one in Austin, and will be presented via a MOO connection in which the presenters will discuss online how the MOO works, what kinds of applications it is being used for, and the projects that they are planning for its future use. Lingua MOO is a community of teachers and researchers (about 300 at present) who meet online to conference with students, do research, conduct symposia, teach classes, hold group discussions, online poetry readings, and many other activities and events.

Document Integration of Office Suite Applications and the World Wide Web
Al Napier, Rice University, Houston, TX
Sponsored by Course Technology, Cambndge, MA
In many educational and business situations, it is useful to include information from one document in another document. A key advantage of using a suite of software applications is document integration. Suites of software provided by Microsoft, Lotus, and Corel provide alternatives for integrating word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management documents. The World Wide Web continues to expand and have greater impact on organizations and individuals. Today it is common for individuals to access the World Wide Web for business as well as personal reasons. In many situations, someone may need to incorporate information from the World Wide Web into other documents created using various software applications. In this session, some methods for integrating word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database documents are covered. Object linking and embedding techniques are illustrated. Procedures for including information from the World Wide Web are presented. The Microsoft Office software suite and Netscape Navigator are used in the presentation to illustrate document integration and the inclusion of World Wide Web information.

12:00 noon-1:30pm Luncheon / Prizes / Business Meeting

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