Minutes - January 19, 2010
General Membership Meeting

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm

Chapter Update data was discussed:

  • We need to have a database of our members with the information that CSTA wants
  • Tammy will create a database with the following fields (at minimum) [first, last, CSTA member#, org, title, category, e-mail]
  • We discussed tracking other information on members such as url of a blog, etc.
  • Tammy will send an e-mail to each person on our contact list

Topics, speakers and agenda for Spring Symposium:

  • We agreed to change the date and time of the Spring Symposium to Monday, April 19th 6-8 pm to allow our members to come and hear Susan Rodgers speak at Haverford from 4-5 on Apr 19.
  • Overview of CSTA K-12 Curriculum
  • Report from WhitePaper group
  • Summer opportunities for teachers
  • Summer opportunities for students

Topics for February meeting

  • Freely Available Tools
  • There are so many available, we will ask our members which ones they are interested in learning more about.
  • JD will send out a link to an online survey to collect the preferences of our membership
  • We discussed the following tools: Eclipse, Javabat, Media computation, Scratch, Moodle, Greenfoot, BlueJay, Google Wave, Social Bookmarking, Flickr, Tool suites such as Google and Zoho, mySQL, Google SketchUp, and Google Sites

It was requested that the meeting location be added to the meeting dates block on the website

Meeting was adjourned at 6:05 pm

Mission

Computer Science is a young and rapidly changing field, challenging its practitioners and educators to remain current and be quick to adapt in order to achieve their full potential. Our group offers a forum for the exchange of curriculum ideas, sparking collaboration among and between educators in secondary schools and universities in the greater Philadelphia area, so as to help fuel continued improvement in the teaching of Computer Science. We promote Computer Science education and support K-16 educators by raising public awareness of Computer Science and its many subfields, and the value of a Computer Science education to the next generation of students.

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All meetings are held at 4:30 pm in KINSC Hilles 110 at Haverford College.