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<div>FYI....the first talk this spring looks pretty interesting!
Elizabeth</div>
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To: thomson@mit.edu<br>
Cc: Janet Wasserstein <janetw@mit.edu><br>
Subject: Cross posting CrossTalk announcement</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Phillip Long
<longpd@MIT.EDU><br>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:21:13 -0400<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear Elizabeth: We are trying to reach
the wider MIT community, particularly faculty and graduate students,
to bring to their attention the resumption of CrossTalk, a public
discussion series on educational change. Janet Wassertein
suggested you might be willing to cross-post this announcement to <a
href="mailto:editors@mit.edu">editors@mit.edu</a>. It would be helpful
if you would be willing to bring this to those individuals through
whatever channels, such as <a
href="mailto:editors@mit.edu">editors@mit.edu</a>, are appropriate for
such a communication.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thanks for you
consideration.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Regards,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>MESSAGE FOR REPOSTING</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: CrossTalk Seminars in
Educational Change - "Using</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Visualizations to Teach Concepts in
Science and Engineering"</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Greetings:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite><x-tab> </x-tab>The new
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology is
pleased</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>to announce a renewal of an informative
and stimulating series,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>CrossTalk, presenting faculty from
MIT, and periodically faculty</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>from elsewhere, talking about core issues
at the intersection of</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>teaching, learning and technology.
We will kick of the spring</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>discussion with a panel of MIT faculty
addressing the topic "Using</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Visualization to Teach Concepts in
Science and Engineering", to be</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>held Thursday, April 19th, in 5-217 at
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm. The</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>faculty panelists anchoring the
discussion are:</blockquote>
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Professor John Belcher, Professor & Class of 1960 and a
MacVicar</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Faculty Fellow at MIT. He has been
primarily responsible for the</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>development of Techonlogy Enabled Active
Learning TEAL. and has</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>developed an award winning Java3D
visualization engine TEALsim used</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>for both the physics visualizations and
recently biology.</blockquote>
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Professor Fredo Durand, Associate Professor an associate
professor</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department at MIT,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>and a member of the Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Laboratory.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
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Professor Graham Walker, the American Cancer Society
Research</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Professor of Biology past HHMI Professor.
Prof. Graham has been</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>leading efforst to harness protein
structure manipulation software</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>for teaching in biology.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Abstract of the Session:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Visualizations are fast becoming an
essential element in teaching</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>science and engineering. Computational
tools for creating compelling,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>attractive, and high fidelity
represenations of scientific and</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>engineering phenonomena are more widely
available and becoming easier</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>to use. With all the aesthetic appeal
that the current generation of</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>visualizations bring, the question
remains, are they more than just</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>'eye candy'- that is, what evidence is
there that they improve</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>learning? Do they deepen intution about
physical processes? What</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>principles make for good visualizations?
How do you work them into</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>the course and plan for their use in
assigments? How do you measure</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>their impact on student
learning?</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Please join us for the renewal of a
community of colleagues, friends,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>and new acquaintances sharing an interest
in innovations in teaching,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>learning and technology.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Where: 5-217</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>When: April 19th,
2007</blockquote>
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</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>3:30
pm - 4:30 pm</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>What:
CrossTalk Discussion - Using Visualization to Teach</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Concepts in Science and
Engineering</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>For further information, see <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/"
>http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>NOTE: The Crosstalk Mailing List is in
the process of being updated.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>If you do NOT wish to receive CrossTalk
announcements (expect no more</blockquote>
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please send email to</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Phillip D. Long,
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