Schedule

TUESDAY     WEDNESDAY  
8:40 Registration Desk Opens      
9:20 Welcome   9:00 Programming Languages for x.45, x.46
9:30

Programming and Telescopes:

Head-First Introduction to Computer Science

(overview of 1.44, 2.44 and 3.44)

    Soapbox on Teacher Experiences with Programming Languages
10:30 Morning Tea   10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 Level 2 Computer Science (2.44) hands-on lesson   11:00

Talk on Human-Computer Interaction

HCI hands on lesson / discussion of teaching HCI

(for 1.44 and 2.44)
12:30 Lunch   12:30 Lunch
13:00

Sharing of Teachers' Best Ideas

from 1.44, 1.45 and 1.46 in 2011

  13:00

Hands on lesson for 2.45 (and 2.46)

designing a programming task

13:30 New Desgn and Programming Standards (x.45, x.46)      
14:30 Afternoon Tea   14:30 Afternoon Tea
15:00 Stuart Marshall talk (People in Computer Science)   15:00 Birds of a Feather sub-group discussions
15:30 Group Discussion      
16:00 Josh Bailey (Google) talk   16:00 See presentation of High School Girls' Arduino Projects
16:30 Paul Matthews (NZCS) talk (ICT_connect)   16:30 Summary and Survey
17:00 Finish for the Day (dinner downtown for those interested)   17:00 Farewell