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Advanced Placement Computer Science A Exam Workshop - June 22-26th 2009

Teachers who attended AP 2009
AP Workshop Photos - June 22nd
Barb's article in the JCT is at http://iste.org/JCT
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http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/611 Sample letters to send to parents to recruit
The teacher survey is at http://findings.summer-ice.sgizmo.com
Common mistakes on the CS AP Free Response Questions
Changes for Advanced Placement Computer Science A in 2010
The College Board web page for Computer Science A is http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/4483.html
The appendix is http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap_comp_sci_a_quick_reference.pdf
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fishSwim.a3p
Items shared by teachers AP CS A 2009
Digital Video Class http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2006/cs4480_spring/
index to USB materials from AP CS A 2009

Please note that this is not a College Board Endorsed Workshop. The College Board decided that they would not allow me (Barbara Ericson) to continue teaching the College Board endorsed AP CS workshops since I have not attended the required training (even though they haven't offerred the training the last 3 years and have no plans to do so in the future). I am on the AP Development Committee that has the responsibility to create the exam each year, so I do find this ironic. I will continue to offer the workshop, but it just won't be a College Board endorsed one.

The workshop will be held June 22-26th at Georgia Tech. The hours for this workshop are from 8:30am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday. On Friday July 25th 2008 the workshop will start at 8:30am and end at 12:00pm. Teachers who complete the workshop will receive 3 PLUs. This course will be taught by Barbara Ericson of Georgia Tech. She has been an AP CS A reader for 3 years and joined the CS AP Development Committee in 2008. Georgia public school teachers must register on http://ctaern.org for workshop CTAERN2482. Private school teachers and out-of-state teachers (not in Georgia) can register at out-of-state or private registration. Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.

The workshop will be held at the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) in room 118. TSRB is located at 85 Fifth Street NW Atlanta, Georgia 30308 - across the street from the GA Tech Hotel. Please see http://www.tsrb.gatech.edu/ for parking and directions.

You must have experience in Java before taking this workshop! If you do not have Java experience, but do have programming experience you must take the Intermediate Programming - July 20-24th 2009 workshop first. You should teach this material for a year or so before taking the AP workshop.

If you have no programming experience you should take the Computing in the Modern World - July 6-10th 2009 and perhaps the Beginning Programming - July 13-17th 2009 workshop and teach either the Computing in the Modern World and/or Beginning Programming course for 1-3 years first.

This workshop is aimed at new and existing CS-AP A. The workshop will have lots of hands-on exercises that teachers can use in their classrooms. This workshop will cover object-oriented concepts, the case study, and the exam. The workshop will use a variety of activities to help you understand these concepts: lecture, role-playing, small programming assignments, and object-oriented analysis and design using CRC and UML. We will use examples from Alice 3.0 and Media Computation for teaching some of the concepts. Alice 3.0 is free software from CMU that allows students to learn computing concepts by programming using drag-and-drop or by typing Java code. Media Computation is teaching computing concepts by writing programs that manipulate media. For example, negate an image, mirror an image, reverse a sound, weave music phrases in a linked list. We will also use the new textbook on Alice and Media Computation that will be coming out this summer.

Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundataion we will pay for Georgia teacher's room, board, and parking if you are from outside of the Atlanta area (live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech). Guests will be staying two teachers to a room unless s/he wishes to pay the addtional cost for a private room ($71/night). Out of state teachers will need to cover their own hotel, parking, and meals (except lunch which is included). For other nearby hotels see Hotels near Georgia Tech for 2009.

The tuition for the workshop is $450 per person. A deposit of $125 must be received by May 22, 2009. The balance is due by June 8th, 2009. The deposit is refundable until May 22, 2009. Checks or purchase orders should be made out to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Space is limited to 30, so please send your deposit as soon as possible. Send your payment to:

Georgia Tech, CoC
Institute for Computing Education
ATTN: Felicia Auzla, ICE Programs
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
Fax: 404 385-0965

The tentative agenda is:

Monday June 22, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Introductions and CS Unplugged Activities
9:30am - 10:30am Introducing Alice 3.0
10:30am - 10:45am break
10:45am - 12:00pm Teaching AP CS with Alice 3.0
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 2:30pm Projects in Alice 3.0
2:30pm - 2:45pm break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Group work on lesson plans for Alice 3.0
4:00pm - 4:30pm Review of concepts

Tuesday June 23, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Questions from previous day and review of group work
9:30am - 10:30am Arrays and Lists
10:30am - 10:45am break
10:45am - 12:00pm OO concepts
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 2:30pm Recursion
2:30pm - 2:45pm break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Group work on lesson plans for topics covered.
4:00pm - 4:30pm Review of concepts

Wednesday June 24, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Questions from previous day and review of group work
9:30am - 10:30am Teaching data structures by manipulating media
10:30am - 10:45am break
10:45am - 12:00pm Review of tricky multiple choice questions
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 2:30pm 2009 exam and walking through free reponse questions and answers
2:30pm - 2:45pm break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Group work on lesson plans for topics covered.
4:00pm - 4:30pm Review of concepts

Thursday June 25, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Questions from previous day and review of group work
9:30am - 10:30am Case Study Role Play
10:30am - 10:45am break
10:45am - 12:00pm The case study and extending the case study
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 2:30pm The case study
2:30pm - 2:45pm break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Group work on lesson plans for the topics covered.
4:00pm - 4:30pm Review of concepts

Friday June 26, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Questions from previous day and review of group work
9:30am - 10:30am Additional resources (javabat.com, practice exam sites, sample AP exams, Java tutorials, etc)
10:30am - 10:45am break
10:45am - 11:30am Teachers sharing ideas
11:30am - 12:00pm surveys

For information regarding reimbursements please see http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/940.





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