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Teaching with technology focus of Faculty Institute

Ben Shneiderman

2:42 p.m., June 13, 2005--The keynote speaker for UD’s Summer Faculty Institute--Ben Shneiderman, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland--will focus on applying educational technology through a “collect-relate-create-donate” framework, in which teams work on projects for the benefit of themselves and others outside the classroom.

At 10 a.m., Monday, June 20, in 127 Memorial Hall, Shneiderman will explain how creative uses of technology in education can increase the effectiveness of an instructor, researcher or collaborator. All members of the campus community are invited to attend the keynote presentation. Registration is required at [www.udel.edu/present/summer/keynotes.html].

“The rewards of helping others are especially sweet when you are also helping yourself,” Shneiderman writes in Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. “Students have skills that can be highly beneficial to many organizations, and students benefit by having a client whose needs promote advanced learning,” according to Shneiderman.

Shneiderman is founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and a member of the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. Visit [www.cs.umd.edu/~ben] to learn more about his work.

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