Marketing and Videos
Girls and Women in computing that are doing/or did interesting things
Lots of great computing videos like "The machine that changed the world" are at http://www.cosmolearning.com/computer-science/documentaries?sort=views
A video "The secret life of software" that is an intro to objects, classes, methods, data (fields) and encapsulation http://csteachlearn.com/secret_life.html
Some videos on teaching Java in AP CS are at http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
A movie on creating the future from Microsoft Research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvhYDTh9T2A
Interviews with Nicholas Negroponte about the One Laptop per Child Project http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/755
A movie on software and object-oriented programming in Java http://csteachlearn.com/secret_life.html
A video about electronic voting http://www.hackingdemocracy.com
A segment about kids on-line is at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
A video on sorting is at http://services.tucows.com/developers/2007/09/24/sorting-out-sorting/
A video on the new robotics CS1 at Georgia Tech using Scribbler Robots http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/multimedia/video
Part of a documentary about secret Rosies, women who did secret computing work during World War II and were early programmers.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-512403.html
Professor Randy Pausch, developer of Alice, died of cancer in the summer of 2008. He gave a wonderful and very funny lecture which you can see at here (about 2 hours). You can also order the DVD from http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/. He was also on Good Morning America which you can see at
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3633945&page=1 (about 9 minutes).
Interviews with Computing Educators http://cs.southwestern.edu/CEOHP/
LEGO First Nanotechnology Competition http://legoeducation.typepad.com/southeastatlantic/files/Flying-Geeks-400-Round-Three.mov
Money magazine ranked Software Eng as the #1 job and Computer IT analyst as job #7 based
on pay, growth, stress, and other factors. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/
Georgia Tech's Digital Video Special Effects class has student created videos at
http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2006/cs4480_spring/
The University of Washington created 3 videos. One is pathways (broadening what CS is), power to
change the world (power of CS), and a video of female CS graduates who work
at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon (see A Day in the Life). See http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/prospective/outreach.html.
They also have capstone design videos at http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/videos/.
This site has a large number of videos on CS http://www.researchchannel.com/prog/subject.aspx?fID=569&pID=476
The Power of Partners: Video on the impact parents, teachers, and advisors have on women doing IT. See http://www.witvideo.org.vt.edu/purchase.htm
Here is a video of minority report style user-interface http://www.flixxy.com/minority-report-interface.htm
Robotic cars for the DARPA Urban Challenge http://www.cbs46.com/video/13896665/index.html
Computer Science 4 Fun magazine (similar to Wired) http://www.cs4fn.org/
This program introduces viewers to three pioneers who are tackling the challenges of modern life head on and examines why America is not producing great scientists and engineers at the rate of other countries. http://www.womenworking.com/tv/television_innovators.php
Here is a presentation created by Barb Ericson of Georgia Tech that tries to
debunk the myths about comptuter science: no jobs, boring, geeks, etc.
WhoWantsToBeACSStudent-2006.ppt
To get the videos to work you will need to put them in the same directory
as the powerpoint slides.
06_PhotoBook.mpeg
04_MosaicMagic.mpeg
04_MosaicMagic_MO.mpeg
stairs.mpg
The National Science Foundation made a video to market technology to girls.
See http://www.umbc.edu/be-anything/
A good book for girls is Changing Our World, True Stories of Women Engineers
by Sybil E. Hatch, ASCE Pr, 2006 Press, 221 pages, ISBN 0-7844-9841-6
See Recruiting for more ideas
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