Introduction to Media Computation: Planning Space

The Best Starting Place

• To get a quickie overall view of what the media computation is about, check out What can you do with this? for the intro course, or What is this class all about? for the data structure class.
• The MediaComp Teachers website tends to get updated more often and more quickly than this, the planning site, does.
• You can get all the software, pre-print version of book, etc. from Getting started.
• Our Papers are here, too.

• The first chapters of the Media Computation book in Java are available, with new Java classes.
  Demonstrations of the use of the Java MediaComputation materials (needs QuickTime (free)):
  • About 40Mb (320x240 screen): JavaBookWalkthrough-Big.mov
  • About 172Mb (640x480 screen): JavaBookWalkthrough-Huge.mov
• CS1316 "Representations of Structure and Behavior", a new Undergraduate minor, a media-based path into the CS major, and a new major BS in Compuational Media have all now been approved. Details
• The CS1316 Website is now started. CS1316 will be a course on structuring media. From the CS perspective, it's a course on data structures in a media context. From a media perspective, it's about how media professionals structure their media to make it easier to explore.
• A site for teachers using Media Computation in their classes is at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach.
• The Institute for Computing Education (ICE@GT) uses media computation in some of its hight school teacher workshops. See more on those at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt.
• Summer camps for high school students are using the media computation approach, too. See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/campice/ for more information. Check out their cool collages at http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080/icecamp.
• The Python book came out December 2004. Introduction to computing and programming with Python: A Multimedia Approach (ISBN 0-13-117655-2) from Prentice-Hall. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131176552/qid=1101179106/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/104-8916403-4611901?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

  

• The Java book is now out, too, as of April 2006:
• The Media Computation data structures book has now been completed in course notes version. Barb is making it into good Java, and adding more Java and AP content. It should be out from Prentice-Hall by the end of the year. You can see the course notes version at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1316/2

More Resources for Exploration

• Talk at Microsoft Faculty Summit 2008 is available in PPTX, PPT, and PDF formats.
• Talk from CSE@50, the 50th anniversary of computer science at the University of Michigan: U-M-CSE@50-May2008.ppt
• "Meeting the Needs of Computing Across Campus" – Banquet talk at ACM Southeast Regional Conference, 28 March 2007. ACMSE-ComputingforEveryone-March2008.ppt
• "Meeting the Needs of Computing Across Campus" – a DLS talk at University of British Columbia 8 November 2007. UBC-ComputingforEveryone-Nov2007.ppt. Same title, slightly different talk at Visual and Computational Thinking and Learning conference at the College of Charleston: TLVC2-ComputingforEveryone-Nov2007.ppt
• Mark was on Inside the Black Box radio show January 20, 2007. BlackBoxJan20.mp3
• Two-page white paper on Contextualized Computing Education: PDF DOC
• Imagineering Inauthentic Legitimate Peripheral Participation-v2.ppt A talk using learning theory to describe the impact of the Media Computation classes and drawing on Disney's Imagineering to describe the design of the courses. Paper submitted to ICER2006 available here: PDF
• A White Paper submitted to the "Integrative Computing Education & Research (ICER): Preparing IT Graduates for 2010 and Beyond" Workshop MarkGuzdial-ICER.doc PDF Version
• Slides for talk 29 Sept. 2005 "Computing for Everyone" ComputingForEveryone-UWTacoma-20Sept.ppt (Flyer with abstract: guzdial-general-flyer.doc) and Collab-Dynabooks-UWTacoma-Sept05.ppt
• SIGCSE 2005 Talk/Panels slides
• Slides for talk Dec. 2 at Ohio State University: IntroToMediaComp-OhioState-Nov04.ppt
• Slides for the Georgia Department of Education "Business and Information Technology" Development Conference IntroToMediaComp-BITtalk-Oct04.ppt
• A small set of slides just on the most current results on the class, including the new 9.5% WDF rate in Spring 2004. CS1315-course-results.ppt
• Poster for the NSF-CCLI/AAAS Conference April 16-18 on Undergraduate Education Innovations. poster-for-ccli-aaas.pdf
• SIGCSE 2004 Talks
• Talk at the 17th Annual Southeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computer Sciences in Colleges (http://www.gpc.edu/~ccsc2003) on "Introduction to Media Computation: A new CS1 approach that addresses women's interests." ccsc2003.ppt
• GVU Brown Bag talk on results and class, with video! http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/gvu/streaming/archives/BB4.html
• Talk at ITWF Workshop on Women and Minorities in Computer Science U. Colorado-Boulder, August 11-13.
• Talk at Kennesaw State University on the course, with grade distributions in it. Kennesaw.ppt
• The final report on the pilot offering of the course is available at Final Report
• Talk at DePauw University "Making and Manipulating Media for Learning" on both Squeak and the media comp course. MakingAndManipulatingMedia.ppt
• Slides for talk at the Academic Advisory Committee on the Computing Disciplines for the University System of Georgia Board of Regents BoR-CS-Advisory.ppt
• Slides for talk at GVU Brown Bag Jan 16, 2003: GVU-BB-MediaComp-16Jan.ppt
• Sept. 6 introduction to course for undergrad advisors: introducingCourse.pdf
• Presentation to students on MediaComp idea: intro-mediaComp.ppt
• Now fairly dated: Working Document developed in initial course planning:HTML PDF

Older Material

• Development Pages
• SIGCSE 2003: WorkshopSlides.ppt

• Sandbox

• Imagineering-LPP-ICER2006.ppt