CEOHP publications

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This page summarizes publications and presentations the people of CEOHP have made about the project. This page is broken up into several sections; use the collapsible table of contents at the top of the page to find and skip to a particular section.

Working Group Reports

ALMSTRUM, V. L., BARKER, L. J., OWENS, B. B., ADAMS, E., ASPRAY, W., DALE, N. B., DANN, W., LAWRENCE, A., AND SCHWARTZMAN, L. 2005. Working Group on Building a Sense of History: Narratives and Pathways of Women Computing Educators. SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, 37(4) (Dec. 2005), 173-189. DOI=10.1145/1113847.1113895

Established goals for the project and the protocol for collecting oral histories within the project. Includes the initial set of interview questions.

ALMSTRUM, V. L., APPLIN, E. G., OWENS, B. B., ADAMS, E., BARKER, L. J., IMPAGLIAZZO, J., JOSEPH, P. A., KAHLON, A., LAST, M. Z., LAWRENCE, A., AND YOUNG, A. 2008. Computing educators oral history project: seeking the trends. SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, 40(4). (Nov. 2008), 122-141. DOI=10.1145/1473195.1473238

Revisits the overall protocol to update it after three years of experience, including an updated set of interview questions. Reports early explorations with a variety of different analysis approaches and discussions legal issues associated with the project.

Papers

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., APPLIN, E.A.G., AND BARKER, L.J. 2008d. Computing Educators Oral History Project: Using Digital Media to Recruit, Retain, and Inform. Conference of the Oral History Association. Pittsburgh, PA. 15-19 October 2008.

Tailored for an audience knowledgeable about oral history methodologies, this presentation described highlights of the project and technical challenges the project team had faced.

Keynote presentations

OWENS, B.B. 2008a. Pathways and Journeys: Interviews with Computing Educators Spanning Continents, Generations and Gender. SET4W/NACI Symposium: Changing perceptions of Women in SET. Pretoria, South Africa, 25 June 2008.

Described the background, motivation, and accomplishments for the project, including highlights from the interviews collected.

OWENS, B.B. 2008b. Pathways and Journeys: Interviews with Computing Educators Spanning Continents, Generations and Gender. NACCQ 2008, The 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications. Auckland, New Zealand. 4-7 July 2008.

Panels

ALMSTRUM, V. L. (moderator), ASPRAY, W., EGAN, M.A., AND IMPAGLIAZZO, J. 2008a. Perspectives on History in Computing and Education. In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 2-3. DOI=10.1145/1352322.1352139

Presenters argued for several approaches to using history in the teaching repertoire for computing educators at both the pre- college and college levels. Explored the importance of history in the computing curriculum and how to apply this theme in computing programs as a tool for learning.

ALMSTRUM, V. L. (moderator), ASPRAY, W., EGAN, M.A., AND IMPAGLIAZZO, J. 2008b. Perspectives on History in Computing and Education. Posting of slides from the previous entry by IT History Society. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20100331234345/http://ithistory.org/resources/resources.php

Provides the panelists’ materials from the panel Almstrum, et al. (2008a).

BARKER, L. J. (moderator), ADAMS, E., KAHLON, A., LAWRENCE, A., AND YOUNG, A. 2009. Trends and discoveries of the computing educators oral history project. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Chattanooga, TN, USA, March 04 – 07, 2009). SIGCSE ’09. ACM, New York, NY, 399-400. DOI=10.1145/1539024.1509007

Presented concrete results from initial analyses of the growing body of interviews in the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP). Included a brief background of the project, with the bulk of the panel focusing on issues related to the techniques and results that have been explored during the early stages of the project.

Posters

ALMSTRUM, V.L., MURALIDHAR, D., LAST, M.Z., and OWENS, B.B. 2011. Teaching with CEOHP. In Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2011). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 354-354. DOI=10.1145/1999747.1999868

Introduces the CEOHP project, describes the pedagogical aspects of the site, and suggests uses for the educational materials.

ALMSTRUM, V.L., OWENS, B.B., LAST, M.Z., and MURALIDHAR, D. 2012. CEOHP Evaluation, Evolution, and Archival Storage. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pages TBD. DOI=10.1145/2157136.2157405

Presents recent progress, including Evaluation efforts in 2009 and 2010 (a series of face-to-face and on-line qualitative interviews that provided feedback about the CEOHP website, including its organization, content, and usability by target groups), the resulting Evolution to improve both quality and consistency of the collection elements and the CEOHP website, and Archival Storage (a process that will add the interviews in the CEOHP collection to the prestigious Charles Babbage Institute for permanent indexing and archiving).

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J. 2006b. Making Waves: Computing Educators Oral History Project. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. San Diego, CA. 4-7 October 2006.

Featuring speech bubbles with sample pullquotes from four of the interviews, this poster covered aims of the projects, the outcome from the ITiCSE 2005 Working Group, sample equipment, the strategy for selecting interviewees, short and long term goals for CEOHP, sample questions for conducting the interviews, and a prototype of the CEOHP webpage.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., and BARKER, L.J. 2007a. NSF Showcase — CEOHP: Computing Educators Oral History Project. The 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Covington, KY, 7-10 March 2007. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20100821025920/http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/nsfcclishowcase/

Presented current status of the project in the context of an NSF showcase. Included short and long-term goals, areas of concern, timeline of key events, overview of website, sample equipment, interviews to date, anticipated users, and how to get involved.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., and BARKER, L.J. 2007b. The computing educators oral history project: Planning for the future. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Dundee, Scotland. 25-27 June 2007. ITiCSE ’07. ACM, New York, NY, 328-328. DOI=10.1145/1269900.1268896

Showcased the planning stages of the project, including the goal to develop a searchable repository of artifacts related to the personal histories of computing educators. The poster discussed issues such as artifacts (digital audio interviews, interview transcripts, photographs, vitas, and other relevant items), factors used to select individuals for inclusion in the collection (with attention to balance across factors such as gender, geographic location, age, race/ethnicity, and institutional size), and key uses of the project (to support, recruit, and retain under-represented groups).

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., and APPLIN, E.A.G. 2007. Describing the Past to Build for the Future: The Stories of CEOHP. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Orlando, FL. 17-20 October 2007.

Overviews various aspects of the project (work products, planning process, process for collecting and processing interviews, how to build a balanced collection, sister projects). A key innovation on this poster was the introduction of a stair-step model to describe the type of mentoring relationships that can be fostered via a strategic approach to including interviewees at various career stages.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., and APPLIN, E.A.G. 2008a. CEOHP: The Computing Educators Oral History Project. Conference and workshop on History | Gender | Computing. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 30-31 May 2008.

Similar content to Owens et al. (2007), with expanded discussion for some sections and additional interviewees included in the stair-step model.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., and APPLIN, E.A.G. 2008b. Bringing Stories to the World: The Technical Challenges of CEOHP (poster). Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Keystone, CO. 1-4 October 2008.

With a puzzle-piece theme to give the sense of fitting together many stories to understand trends, this poster presented many of the technical challenges of CEOHP, including defining the main goals, the process of collecting and processing interviews, ideas for how to analyze the content of the interviews and present those results, ethical and legal issues, organizational and archival issues, and organizing a set of web portals to provide different views of the collection.

Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

ALMSTRUM, V. L., and OWENS, B.B. 2008. Using Oral Histories in Curricular Planning. In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 564. Online: https://dl.acm.org/action/showBmPdf?doi=10.1145%2F1352135

This SIGCSE BOF explored ways to enhance curricular planning through the use of interviews such as those being collected as part of the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP). Participants considered examples of materials and explored ideas for other materials that can be effective in recruiting, retaining, and supporting individuals at all stages of the pipeline, but particularly pre-college students, undergraduates, and graduate students.

BARKER, L.J. ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND OWENS, B.B. 2006. Women in Computing Education Oral History Project. In Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Houston, TX. 3-5 March 2006. p. 576. On-line: https://dl.acm.org/action/showBmPdf?doi=10.1145/1121341

This BOF was designed for those who wish to find out more about the project and ways to get involved with it. At the end of the session, audience members should have understood the goals of the oral history project and had a basic grasp of the fundamentals of conducting and preserving interviews. The session was intended to provide the information needed for someone to decide whether they would attend a training workshop to become an interviewer. The session also helped refine selection criteria and names of women who could be candidate interviewees.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN, E.A.G. 2008c. Using Oral Histories in Computing Education. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Keystone, CO. 1-4 October 2008.

Organizers highlighted recent developments in CEOHP and reported briefly on the current status of the process of collecting and processing interviews, as well as on the results from the ITiCSE 2008 Working Group (Almstrum et al., 2008). Participants had the opportunity to react to existing materials, share ideas for continued growth of the project, and explore novel ways in which the interviews and other materials of CEOHP can be used in pre-college and college settings throughout the world.

YOUNG, A., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND OWENS, B.B. 2008c. Women in Computing Education Oral History Project. In Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Covington, KY. 7-10 March 2007. On-line: dl.acm.org/action/showBmPdf?doi=10.1145/1227310

This BOF had the same goals as the one held the year before. At this stage, the project focus was still on women computing educators. The discussion introduced the project, explored its goals, and considered strategies for selecting future candidates to interview for the collection.

Workshops

OWENS, B.B. 2007b. Abbreviated oral history interview training: tutorial presentation. Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, 22(4), p. 220. DOI=10.5555/1229637.1229675

This workshop was designed as a first step in training interviewers for CEOHP. The workshop provided background, techniques, guidelines, equipment selection criteria, and demonstrations of conducting interviews. By the end of the workshop, participants could expect to understand the project’s goals and be positioned to undertake further training to become project contributors as interviewers and consultants.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., AND BARKER, L.J. 2006a. Women in Computing Education Oral History Project: Oral History Interview Training. In Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Houston, TX. 3-5 March 2006. p. 566. Online: portalparts.acm.org/1130000/1121341/bm/backmatter.pdf

This workshop was designed to train interviewers for CEOHP and provided background, techniques, guidelines, equipment selection criteria, and demonstrations, as well as practice in conducting interviews.

OWENS, B.B., ALMSTRUM, V.L., BARKER, L.J., AND APPLIN, E.A.G. 2007d. Storytelling as Role Modeling: Collecting Oral Histories. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Orlando, FL. 17-20 October 2007.

This workshop explained the history and objectives of CEOHP to ensure that all attendees understood the goals of the project. We conducted a guided exploration of the project via the web portal to help attendees see the variety of approaches to using this data for work products to support mentoring across institutional settings, experience levels, and ages. To help participants appreciate the richness of interviews as a data source, we asked them to work in small groups to analyze sample interviews that we had preprocessed. After a brief work period, we reconvened to compare findings and discuss how the interviews could be used to provide support for mentoring in different settings.

Other publications related to CEOHP

ALMSTRUM, V. L. 2008a. Educational Activities: Computing Educators Investigate Influences that Drive CS as Career Path. ACM MemberNet, 26 June 2008. Online: eohp.heritage.acm.org/2008/06/archived-article-membernet-20080626/

A brief article about CEOHP in the Educational Activities section of ACM MemberNet, the Association for Computing Machinery’s electronic newsletter of member activities and events.

ALMSTRUM, V. L. 2008b. CEOHP Working Group meets at ITiCSE in Madrid. ACMW CIS Newsletter — Celebrating, Informing, and Supporting Women in Computing, 1(2). Fall 2008, p. 6. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20120226152135/women.acm.org/archives/newsletter/newsletter_v01.02.pdf

Brief article in the ACM-W publication CIS in the Projects Spotlight section. Described the activities that had been carried out by the ITiCSE Working Group in July 2008.

ALMSTRUM, V. L., AND OWENS, B.B. 2011. Inspiring Educator Life Stories, CSTA Voice, vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 6-7. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20160407022349/http://csta.acm.org/Communications/sub/CSTAVoice_Files/csta_voice_03_2011.pdf.

This brief article highlights how pre-college educators might make use of the CEOHP collection.

AMMONS, P. 2007. Local professor leads project on females in computer science. Megaphone, an official student publication of Southwestern University. February 15, 2007.

Newspaper article giving general background about the project and about the NSF planning grant received in 2007.

CSTA, 2008b. Podcast: The Computing Educators Oral History Project. Formerly online at csta.acm.org/Communications/sub/Podcasts.html#Almstrum; now available at: ceohp.heritage.acm.org/2008/03/csta-podcast-20080313/

An audio interview, about 10 minutes in length, that provides some background about CEOHP, ideas for how a high school or middle school teachers might use these materials in the classroom or a club environment, and some examples of the individuals who have been interviewed.

DAVIS, E. 2007a. Press release: Southwestern University professor leads project to gather stories of female computer science pioneers, Southwestern University, 1 February 2007. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20100528192035/southwestern.edu/newsroom/story.php?id=24

Brief press release describing CEOHP and telling about grant from the National Science Foundation.

DAVIS, E. 2007b. Southwestern University professor leads project to gather stories of female computer science pioneers. Southwestern @ Georgetown — University Magazine 18(2). April 2007. p. 9.

Brief article, slightly expanded from the press release in Davis (2007a), from Southwestern University’s magazine (published about three times a year).

OWENS, B.B. 2007a. Computing Educators Oral History Project. NCWIT News & Events Blog, 24 April 2007.

A discussion by the CEOHP project coordinator of the motivation behind CEOHP, the goals, what had been accomplished to date, and the ways in which the NSF Planning grant would be used.

OWENS, B.B. AND ALMSTRUM, V.L. 2007. Proposal for funding: Computing Educators Oral History Project, Phase II. IT History Society. FOrmerly online: ithistory.org/projects/seeking-funding.php

A sample proposal for funding support for the CEOHP project.

OWENS, B.B. AND ALMSTRUM, V.L. 2011. Archival Plans and Pedagogical Materials for Computing Educators Oral History Project. ACMW CIS Newsletter — Celebrating, Informing, and Supporting Women in Computing, 3(2). Summer 2011, p. 9. Online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20120227135329/women.acm.org/archives/newsletter/newsletter_v0302.pdf

A brief update about recent work to create teaching materials and plans to archive the interviews with the Charles Babbage Institute.

PINNELL, M. B. 2007. Project profiles women in computer science. Williamson County Sun (Texas). February 18, 2007.

Article based on an interview with Barbara Boucher Owens and Southwestern senior Hillari Tiedeman (the Math & CS department’s only female computer science graduate in May, 2007) describing CEOHP and the NSF grant.