DREI Lab and Discussion Schedule

The labs will be in the E-Quad (across Olden St.):

Room E-203 for PCs
Room D-229 for MACs

Discussions will be in the Elm Club Ballroom (down Olden St.)

Conference talks are in the Computer Science building.

     June  1996     		     July  1996
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S		 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
                   1		    1  2  3  4  5  6
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8		 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15		14 15 16 17 18 19 20
16 17 18 19 20 21 22		21 22 23 24 25 26 27
23 24 25 26 27 28 29		28 29 30 31
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Week 1: General

Mon, June 24 1:30, CS Building Room 103:

Welcomes and orientation
Lab:: Brief Tour of Computer Hardware; Introduction to Windows or Macintosh; The Internet
Discussion: Getting acquainted (all)

Tue, June 25

(no class -- Sketchpad and CBL demos)

Wed, June 26

Lab:: The Internet (con't); The Web (with digital pictures)
Discussion:: Where did the web come from, and where is it going? (dpd); What should public school access policy be?; Do you, or how do you censor? (all); Chuck's example (move this to lab page)

Thu, June 27

Lab (1:30-3:30): The Web (con't)
Talk (3:45-4:30), Room CS 105.
Discussion (4:45-5:30):: Snarfing: is this a culture we wish to foster?; What are the copyright/intellectual property issues? (all)

Fri, June 28

Lab: Information Retrieval
Discussion:: Is Euclid only an Avenue in Brooklyn? How do you teach proofs?

Week 2: Geometry, Visualization, Sound

Mon, July 1

Lab: Graphics
Discussion:: MUDS: What are they? What are the cultural implications? Opportunities? Dangers? (Hal Roberts '96)

Tue, July 2

Lab: Sound and Multimedia
Discussion:: Using course material in the classroom (part I)

Wed, July 3

Lab:: Programming with Java
Discussion:: Using course material in the classroom (part II)

Week 3: Algorithms and Programming

Mon, July 8

Lab:: Sorting; (Recursion -- module not yet available)
Discussion: Graphics and sound (dpd, ken)

Tue, July 9

Lab: What is the Center of a Triangle?
Discussion: Math forum, interactions (steve)

Wed, July 10

Lab: Finding Intersections
Discussion: What next; computing at home (paul)

Thu, July 11

(no class -- joint DREI/PCMI/NSF program)

Fri, July 12

Labs (as time permits):: think about Internet use from home -- see the FAQ; continuing with What is the Center of a Triangle?; continuing with Finding Intersections; (Delaunay Triangulations -- module not yet available); (Art Gallery Problems -- module not yet available)
Discussion: Absolutely everything else in the world (dpd)

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