APCS Materials

Recent Sessions and Talks

Wisconsin Mathematics Council - Annual Meeting at Green Lake, WI, May 1-2, 2008

Thursday, May 1: Resources for Teaching about Computers (CS/IT) (ppt) (about 9.5 MB)

Friday, May 2: Greenfoot Workshop (handout) (crab.zip)

Wisconsin Mathematics Council - Annual Meeting at Green Lake, WI, May 3-4, 2007

Friday, May 4: A Potpourri of Exciting CS Teaching Resources (ppt) (about 2.3 MB)

Wisconsin Mathematics Council - Annual Meeting at Green Lake, WI, May 4-5, 2006

Networking Session with Computer Science Teachers - Resources
AP Central	Official site for AP materials - register and create a personalized site focused on AP courses you're interested in
APCS Listserv	Register here for the APCS listserv (includes discussions of pre-APCS courses
Course.com	publisher of books related to CS; ask for evaluation copies; Java, JavaScript, VBasic and others
ICT	Java course with lots of good materials all in electronic for (about $500); they also hold summer workshops
CSTA	Computer Science Teachers Association (first year membership free); get copy of ACM K-12 CS Curriculum document; they offer workshops on Java and other CS topics; free curriculum materials developed jointly with IBM; web repository of CS materials coming in July, 2006
CS&IT	Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium, July 8, 2006 in San Diego after NECC conference
ISTE/SIGCS	SIG for Computer Science (Computing Teachers) part of ISTE
Alice	OO Programing environment used from grades 7-14
Karel	Karel J Robot programming in Java
Jeroo	Programming in Java similar to Karel
Fran Trees	A former high school teacher who writes great materials including an addendum for Horstmann's Java Essentials text; she does excellent workshops in NY and NJ
Rich Kick	Currently located at New Trier HS in Winnetka, IL; writes great materials and does excellent workshops; one will be in late June, 2006 in Jacksonville, IL

Developing an OO Solution

Midwest Instructional Computer Science (MICS), April 2006

What Colleges Should Know About the New AP Computer Science
(Panel with APCS Chief Reader Dave Reed, Creighton University)

Wisconsin Mathematics Council - Annual Meeting at Green Lake, WI, May 5-6, 2005
National Academy Foundation Summer Institute, July 17-20, 2005

Computer Science in SE Wisconsin Panel

Panelists:
Joe Kmoch moderator, Washington HS
Kathy Weiss Kettle Moraine HS
Connie Jaeger Mequon-Thiensville SD
Kris Diener Waukesha SD
John Sklar West Bend SD

Object Oriented Thinking

last updated 5/9/2006:8:00am CDT:jk