[Editors] Fwd: Cross posting CrossTalk announcement

[Elizabeth Thomson]

FYI....the first talk this spring looks pretty interesting!  Elizabeth


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>Cc: Janet Wasserstein <janetw at mit.edu>
>Subject: Cross posting CrossTalk announcement
>From: Phillip Long <longpd at MIT.EDU>
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:21:13 -0400
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>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 
><mailto:editors at mit.edu>editors at mit.edu. It would be helpful if you 
>would be willing to bring this to those individuals through whatever 
>channels, such as <mailto:editors at mit.edu>editors at mit.edu, are 
>appropriate for such a communication.
>
>Thanks for you consideration.
>
>Regards,
>	Phil
>
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>MESSAGE FOR REPOSTING
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>Subject: CrossTalk Seminars in Educational Change - "Using
>Visualizations to Teach Concepts in Science and Engineering"
>
>Greetings:
>	The new Office of Educational Innovation and Technology is pleased
>to announce a renewal of an informative and stimulating series,
>CrossTalk,  presenting faculty from MIT, and periodically faculty
>from elsewhere, talking about core issues at the intersection of
>teaching, learning and technology.  We will kick of the spring
>discussion with a panel of MIT faculty addressing the topic "Using
>Visualization to Teach Concepts in Science and Engineering", to be
>held Thursday, April 19th, in 5-217 at 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm.  The
>faculty panelists anchoring the discussion are:
>
>	- Professor John Belcher, Professor & Class of 1960 and a MacVicar
>Faculty Fellow at MIT. He has been primarily responsible for the
>development of Techonlogy Enabled Active Learning TEAL. and has
>developed an award winning Java3D visualization engine TEALsim used
>for both the physics visualizations and recently biology.
>
>	- Professor Fredo Durand, Associate Professor an associate professor
>in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT,
>and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
>Laboratory.
>
>	- Professor Graham Walker, the American Cancer Society Research
>Professor of Biology past HHMI Professor. Prof. Graham has been
>leading efforst to harness protein structure manipulation software
>for teaching in biology.
>
>Abstract of the Session:
>Visualizations are fast becoming an essential element in teaching
>science and engineering. Computational tools for creating compelling,
>attractive, and high fidelity represenations of scientific and
>engineering phenonomena are more widely available and becoming easier
>to use. With all the aesthetic appeal that the current generation of
>visualizations bring, the question remains, are they more than just
>'eye candy'- that is, what evidence is there that they improve
>learning? Do they deepen intution about physical processes? What
>principles make for good visualizations? How do you work them into
>the course and plan for their use in assigments? How do you measure
>their impact on student learning?
>
>
>Please join us for the renewal of a community of colleagues, friends,
>and new acquaintances sharing an interest in innovations in teaching,
>learning and technology.
>
>
>Where:   5-217
>When:    April 19th, 2007
>		3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
>What:      CrossTalk Discussion - Using Visualization to Teach
>Concepts in Science and Engineering
>
>For further information, see 
><http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/>http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/
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