2008 ACET Conference Association for Computer Educators in Texas 44th Annual Conference "Digital Education: Beyond the City Limits" October 2 - 4, 2008 Austin, Texas Call for Participation and Invitation to Attend Register at texasacet.org Examples of topics at this year's conference include: · Keynote: Dr. Bradley Jensen, Microsoft Corp. · A Roadmap for Certification as an NSA Center of Academic Excellence · The Sky Really IS Falling! · Using an ultra light computer in the classroom · Parallel Computing · Assigning IP Address to Routers · Sun SPOTs: Low-cost Hardware Platforms for Developing Wireless Sensor and Embedded Applications · How will you teach your students when gas reaches $5 · A Web-based Course Management System for Assignment Creation, Submission, and Peer Evaluation · A Survey of the Texas Public School System · The Online Classroom: One For-Sure Solution to the Problem of Sky-Rocketing Fuel Costs · Understanding organizational politics - a necessary soft skill for IS majors · Business Statistics with Excel 2007 · Concurrent Programming in Java · Learning SAP in an Online Environment · Integrating Student Understanding through Integration of Instruction in C and Assembly Language · Offering a Dreamweaver Web Design Elective Course -(A Course For All Majors) · Integrating SCADA into CIS Curriculum · Concept Mapping in Information and Computing Curricula · A highly motivational introductory programming course that assists students with career choices · What should students entering college know about computation? · An Innovative Approach To Retain Students In A First Year Gateway Programming Course · Challenges Facing Computer Science Enrollments: Roadblocks to Success · Sustainable Retention Initiatives · Read-Write-Hear project: An emerging technology used to increase the academic performance of students with disabilities · Engaging K-12 through Graduate Students with Robotics · Hat trick: tackling learning styles and asynchronous learning support on the web · Graduate Success Profiling Study · Web Based Testing Bank Center · CS Senior Design Project - A Software Engineering Approach · Workshop: Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide for Educators · Workshop: The Online Classroom · Workshop: Applied Robotics for the Classroom · Workshop: A Case for Ethics in IT · Student Poster Competition Conference Details: Thursday, October 2: Pre-conference Workshops: 8 - noon Conference: 1:00 - 5:00 Keynote and 50-minute sessions Friday, October 3: Conference: 8:00 - 5:00 50-minute sessions Saturday, October 4: 50-minute sessions ½-day Workshops and full day Workshops: 8:00 - 5:00 Hotel: Radisson Austin North, 6000 Middle Fiskville Road, Austin, TX 78752 Sponsors: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, SAS, Paradigm Publishing, EMC Publishing, LEGO Education, McGraw-Hill, Austin Community College, Cengage (Course Technology)