Alma College
614 W. Superior St., Alma, MI 48801, USA
Office: Swanson Academic Center (SAC) 223
Tel: +1-989-463-7177 (New number!!)
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Andrew Thall, Ph.D. |
| Asst. Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Alma College 614 W. Superior St., Alma, MI 48801, USA Office: Swanson Academic Center (SAC) 223 Tel: +1-989-463-7177 (New number!!) |
Spring 09:
Learning Spanish! Alma has a partnership with Equitorialis University in Quito, Ecuador.
In support of this,
I'm taking part in a grant-sponsored program of Spanish instruction for
faculty. This involves a two-week trip
to Quito this June for language
instruction and to make contacts at the university.
In March, I took part in the NMC 2009 Symposium on New Media and Learning, a gathering to explore
the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research,
and creative expression, especially in higher education.
The two-day online event took place at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life.
In May, I taught a Spring Term workshop on Computer Game Programming, working
with 17 students who used Python and Pygame to create five final projects.
Fall 08:
I have joined the computer science faculty at Alma College in Alma, Michigan.
Lots of excitement in store!
We will be introducing a Python-based media computation
approach in introductory CS, based on the success
of the courses at UM Morris.
I will also be involved in developing a major in New Media and in
creating
a
digital learning commons. In support of this, I attended the wicked cool New Media Consortium
conference
(NMC '08) in June at Princeton U. along with a contingent of faculty
and staff from Alma.
Fall 07:
I am a visiting faculty member at the University of Minnesota's Morris Campus
for the 2007/2008 academic year.
I will be teaching introductory computer science courses using a media-computation
framework and methodology,
(see GA Tech's Media Computation
Teachers website.) and continuing my research on high-precision computation
on parallel graphics processors.
War without end.
