Extract from MemberNet, 26 June 2008
ACM Bulletin Service
Today's Topic: MemberNet
June 26, 2008
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Educational Activities
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Computing Educators Investigate Influences that Drive CS as Career Path
The Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP), a grassroots project
to capture computer history with a special focus on education, is supported
by ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W), ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), the National Center for Women
in IT (NCWIT), and NSF. The project, which is led by Barbara Boucher Owens
of Southwestern University, began with a Working Group at the 2005 ITiCSE
conference, which established a protocol for conducting interviews to
investigate the influences that inspired, supported, or discouraged
individuals who followed this career path. The ultimate goal of CEOHP
is a searchable repository of artifacts that includes items such as digital
audio, video, transcripts, and photos. In addition, CEOHP will include
associated instructional materials designed for use at the pre-college
and college levels, with a particular eye toward supporting recruitment
and retention of under-represented groups. The goal is to balance the
collection with respect to factors such as gender, ethnicity, geography,
institution size, and academic rank. One strategy will be to interview
individuals recognized with awards such as the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding
Educator Award and the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Computer Science Education. To date, the CEOHP site includes audio
files and transcripts for 17 individuals, with additional interviews
being prepared. A new Working Group will convene at the 2008 ITiCSE
conference in Madrid later this month.
CEOHP: (http://ceohp.org/)
ACM-W: (http://women.acm.org)
SIGCSE: (http://sigcse.acm.org)
NCWIT: (http://www.ncwit.org/)
2008 ITiCSE conference: (http://www.iticse08.fi.upm.es/WG2.htm)
