Fwd: [SIGCSE-members] Reminder about SIGCSE Special Projects Grants

[Matt Jadud]

Hi all,

So. We're still trying to figure out what we're going to produce (or,
we haven't really sunk our teeth into the question), but...

I assume material production is a key outcome. Will there be a book? A
series of vlogs (a "new media book")? Assignments/scaffolds/etc? A
special project grant to cover some food costs and the like is not
unreasonable---we could request gas for Mel round-trip, and basically
support the endeavor.

I'm happy to write it up, and think we have a good project that is
right for a small project grant. Thoughts?

Cheers,
Matt


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Doug Baldwin <bal...@geneseo.edu>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Subject: [SIGCSE-members] Reminder about SIGCSE Special Projects Grants
To: SIGCSE-...@listserv.acm.org


       This is probably a bad time of the year to remind most of you
about opportunities to do yet more work--but this one is also an
opportunity to get someone to give you money.

       SIGCSE's Special Projects Grant committee is ready to review
proposals for Special Projects grants received by May 15. Special
Projects grants are small grants (up to $5000) to help SIGCSE members
do projects of benefit to the computing education community. Details
are at http://sigcse.org/programs/special, and application
instructions and a short application form are at
http://sigcse.org/programs/special/apply.

       To apply, just write up a project idea in about 1000 words,
fill out the application form, and email both to "ap...@sigcse.org".
Questions about the program or from proposal authors are also welcome
at "ap...@sigcse.org".
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[Jan]

I would be happy to help with this; my grading is nearly done.
Jan

[Mel Chua]

> I assume material production is a key outcome. Will there be a book? A
> series of vlogs (a "new media book")? Assignments/scaffolds/etc? A
> special project grant to cover some food costs and the like is not

A weekly online project update seems (1) valuable, in that it's rare to
expose the process of course design that much, (2) open-ended, and (3)
something we're super-likely to be doing anyway, at least on the mailing
list (if not on our blogs). It's also easy to aggregate blogs into a
planet (Planet Berea / Planet CraftOE) if we want to go a bit further.

I'd be more comfortable promising process documentation than any other
sort of final deliverable, simply because I think the class we're going
to make materials for hasn't taken enough shape yet for us to know what
that materials should be... but that may just be me.

> unreasonable---we could request gas for Mel round-trip, and basically
> support the endeavor.

I would love gas money. It's a long drive (http://g.co/maps/6zswy): 715
miles round-trip, which is $396.83 at the federal reimbursement rate of
$0.555/mile. (If we're just talking gas, that's an overestimate, by the
way -- my car may be ancient, but it's not *that* fuel-inefficient! But
it is a useful upper bound.)

--Mel

[Mel Chua]

> SIGCSE's Special Projects Grant committee is ready to review
> proposals for Special Projects grants received by May 15.

Given that:

1) deadline is tuesday
2) my summer classes start monday

...anything we need to do on this, anything I can help pick up on while
I have (small! tiny! quickly-fading!) amounts of free time?

--Mel

[Matt Jadud]

Hi Mel,

I'll draft this tonight. Watch for something here before I crash out.

Thanks for the reminder.

Cheers,
Matt