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Teaching Computer Science Concepts
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Teaching Computer Science Concepts

I developed the below material for a workshop I gave to computer science teaching assistants today on how to teach computer science concepts. The workshop washttp...

Lessons Learned for Science Outreach
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Lessons Learned for Science Outreach

I went to my old high school last week to do some outreach for Let's Talk Science. The teacher we're partnered with requested a grade ten physics activity on optics...

CS Unplugged: Image Representation and Searching Algorithms
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

CS Unplugged: Image Representation and Searching Algorithms

When I did some computer science outreach in the summer for the Girls @ Virtual Ventures camp, I promised them that if they came back for the weekend clubs in the...

Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School

For some reason or another, a few recent online conversations have got me thinking about pregnancy and grad school. (I suppose visiting a friend with a month-old...

How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career

Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering's November guest speaker event last night was about How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career. With a generalVirtualEyeSee...

ISMAR09: A Few Demos
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: A Few Demos

There were many cool demos at ISMAR this year, and you can check out the description of them in the conference schedule. In this post, I've included a few photos...

Grad School Time Management
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Grad School Time Management

Grad school's different from pretty much all school before it.In high school, everything was very structured, with the same classes happening every day. You always...

ISMAR09: Human Factors and User Interfaces
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Human Factors and User Interfaces

There were more than a few good papers presented at ISMAR this year on human factors and user interfaces. Here's just a taste of them. See the conference schedule...

ISMAR09: Workshop on Handheld Augmented Reality Games
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Workshop on Handheld Augmented Reality Games

This was a great workshop given by Blair MacIntyre from Georgia Tech on mobile augmented reality games. I got a lot out of it, from being reminded of some solid...

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 2 of 3 - Current Applications 2
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 2 of 3 - Current Applications 2

This is the second of three posts on the experiential learning workshop held Monday at ISMAR09. The first post introduced the topic and summarized the first three...

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 3 of 3 - Group Discussion
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 3 of 3 - Group Discussion

This is the last of three posts on the ISMAR09 experiential learning workshop. Post one and post two covered the morning presentations on current applications,...
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