FECS'08: July 17, 2008 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 10-FECS:  TEACHING STRATEGIES (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 08:00am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Teaching Strategies in Large Class Programming Courses
                  Justin Brown and Greg Baatard
                  Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia

08:20 - 08:40am:  Improving Teaching by Integrating Real-time Feedback Through
                  Clickers into Class Video Recording
                  Taira Nakajima
                  Tohoku University, Japan

08:40 - 09:00am:  Teaching Programming as a Process
                  Anastasia Tircuit
                  Seton Hill University, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Petri Nets Across Graduate Computer Science Curriculum
                  Boleslaw Mikolajczak
                  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA;
                  Polish-Japanese School of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

09:20 - 09:40am:  Integration of the Algorithmic and OO Approaches in the Curriculum
                  Mathias Fonkam and  Felix Bollou 
                  School of Information Technology & Communication, Nigeria

09:40 - 10:00am:  Role Playing in Advanced Internet
                  Susan Loveland
                  Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  Importance of Service Learning in Electrical and Information
                  Engineering Education
                  Andrew Nafalski and Ozdemir Gol
                  University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


10:40 - 11:40am:  During this period, FECS'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to SERP'08, MSV'08, CGVR'08, ICOMP'08,
                  SWWS'08, SAM'08, EEE'08, or FCS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of FECS'08.

11:40a - 12:40p:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 11-FECS:  EDUCATION AND THE WEB (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 12:40pm - 01:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

12:40 - 01:00pm:  Creating Wiki Communities in Blended Learning Environment and
                  the Creation of the Moodle New Wiki
                  Marc Alier
                  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Assessment Practices for Mixed Mode Delivery of Web Programming
                  Topics: Increasing Learning and Reducing Cheating
                  Justin Brown
                  Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia


SESSION 12-FECS:  TOOLS AND EMULATORS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  The Radar-Graphic Phoneme Learning System
                  Yun-Long Lay, Minder Chen, Chern-Sheng Lin, and Hui-Jen Yang
                  National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan;
                  George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA;
                  Feng Chia University, Taiwan

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Remote Laboratory for Inspection of Silicon Wafer
                  Aaron Mohtar, Zorica Nedic, and Jan Machotka
                  University of South Australia, Australia

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Role of Simulation in the Study of Electromagnetism
                  Ozdemir Gol and Andrew Nafalski
                  University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - The Synthesis
                  of Mathematical Foundations with Real World Applications in
                  Computer Science Education
                  Igor Balsim and Elie Feder
                  KBCC, City University of New York, New York, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Adapter for 8051 Emulation Using the C8051F360 and USB ToolStick
                  Gerd W. Wostenkuhler and Daren R. Wilcox
                  Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA;
                  Hochschule Harz, University of Applied Studies & Research, Germany


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION D-FECS (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. The High Price of High Technology
                     Donald B. Hodges and Jongwook Woo
                     California State University, USA
                  O. Design Of Personal Record Software
                     Okonigene R.E., Ighalo G.I., and Ogbeifun E.
                     Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria
                  O. Another Take on the Introductory Computer Science Course
                     Timothy S. Meyer
                     Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,  USA
                  O. Transition from a Waterfall-Based Capstone Course to an Agile Model
                     Chris Luer; Ball State University, USA


SESSION 13-FECS:  GAME PROGRAMMING AND VIRTUAL WORLDS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 03:40pm - 04:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Google Earth as a Decision Support System for Targeting
                  College Admissions Drives
                  Leonidas Deligiannidis, Michael Werner, and john Russo
                  Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Recruiting Students to Computer Science Program via Online Games
                  Nasser Tadayon, Ramin Tadayon, and Manghui Tu
                  Arizona State University, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Real Currency Economies: Using Real Money in Virtual Words
                  Billy Harris and Andy Novobilski
                  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA


04:40 - 06:00pm:  During this period, FECS'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to SERP'08, MSV'08, CGVR'08, ICOMP'08,
                  SWWS'08, SAM'08, EEE'08, or FCS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of FECS'08.

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