siva@rice.edu

PRESENTATIONS

2000|| 1999 || 1997 || 1996 || 1995

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2008
Innovative pathways to school leadership. Invited panel member. Teach for America Houston Summit. February, 2008


2007
Innovative models of professional development. College Board National Forum, New York, October, 2007

Connecting Teachers to Content Intensive Professional Development. IBNA Conference, Chicago, July 2007

AP/ Pre-AP Professional Development. Panel member. AP SWRO Regional Conference, New Mexico, February, 2007


2006
Preparing Teachers to Teach Pre-AP and AP. Accepted presentation at the College Board National Forum in San Diego, CA, November, 2006.


2005
Sustaining NSDL Through its Projects. Invited member for panel presentation. National Science Digital Library Program Conference, Denver, CO November 2005

Improving Access, Equity, and Excellence in AP: A Statewide Initiative. Invited panel member. AP National Conference in Houston, July 2005


2004
Sustainability of User Communities in Digital Collections. Invited Workshop Leader.National Science Digital Library Program Conference, Chicago, IL November 2004

Using the AP Digital Library in the Teaching and Leaning of AP Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Presentation at the AP National Conference in Florida, July 2004

A consolidated, culled, and reviewed AP Chemistry Digital Library collection of free interactive web resources for teachers and students. Invited paper presentation in the Digital Libraries Symposium at Conference on Chemical Education, July 2004

What we have discovered about interactive web resources for teaching AP Chemistry – The APDL Collection.Invited presentation. “Professional Night” for national readers of the AP Chemistry examination, June 2004


2003
Professional development programs for middle and high school teachers of advanced courses. Invited presentation. Strand: Training and Assessment. Pre-conference on Gifted Students and Advanced Placement. Texas Association of Gifted and Talented. Annual Conference. November 19, 2003

Collection Development Policies: Advanced Placement Digital Library in Biology, Physics and Chemistry.Presentation at the National Science Digital Library Meeting, October 2003


2002
Architecting an online course: Good practices to consider. Invited presentation to the University of St. Thomas faculty constructing online courses. January, 2002.


2000
Education in an online environment: Principles of good practice. Workshop to the CampusNet Workgroup for Online Teaching, University of Houston System Distance Education, March 2000

Web-Based Student Portfolios in a Graduate Instructional Technology Program, Paper proposal submitted for SITE 2000, American Association of Computers in Education

Creating an Online Essential Skills in Instructional Technology Program: An Analysis of the Experience and a Discussion of Issues, Paper proposal submitted for DEC 2000, Center for Distance Learning Research, Texas A&M.

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1999

Education in an online environment: Principles of good practice. Workshop to the CampusNet Workgroup for Online Teaching, University of Houston System Distance Education, May 1999

Faculty roles in moderating online discussions. Workshop to the CampusNet Workgroup for Online Teaching, University of Houston System Distance Education, May 1999

A correlational study of Teacher Education and the Impact on Student Research Activities on the Internet. Paper presentation at Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education '99 - AACE, San Antonio, Texas - March, 1999. Survey instrument used for the study.

Internet Research Model, Presentation at MSET, San Antonio, Texas - March 1999

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1997

Pre- College Mathematics via Interactive Teledistance - Rice University and K-12 Schools.
Session presented at the 10th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Chicago, Illinois - November 1997

Mathematics via Teledistance: Lessons Learned
Presentation at Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT ) '97 - 44th Annual Conference Houston, Texas - July, 1997

Mathematics, Teledistance and the Internet
Presentation at the Gulf Coast Consortium for Mathematics
Houston, Texas - July, 1997

Technology Training Model for Inservice Teachers to integrate Information Technologies.
Paper presented at SITE 97--Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, 8th International Conference, Orlando, Florida - April 1997

Inventing New Models for Teaching in Electronic Studios Linked via an ATM Network
Presentation at the 1997 Western Communications Forum presented by the International Engineering Consortium, Colorado Springs, Colorado - March, 1997

Project OWLink - Distance Learning in K-12 Schools
Presentation at the Texas Computer Educator's Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, - February, 1997

Project OWLink: Distance Learning in Electronic Studios
Paper presented at the Fourth Annual National Distance Education Conference sponsored by the Center for Distance Learning Research
Corpus Christi, Texas - January, 1997

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1996

Teaching with the Internet
Paper presented at the Second International N. A. Web Conference, New Brunswick, Canada - October, 1996

The Role of the Teacher in the Digital Age
Presentation to the GirlTECH Project, Houston, Texas - June, 1996

Panel Discussion: "Texas Video Demonstration Projects" with co-presenters: Bob Digneo, Southwestern Bell; Dr. Paula Nichols, Spindletop Center for Professional Development; Charlene Robertson, AISD
Texas Distance Learning Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas - May, 1996.

Profiles of Internet Use in the Classroom with co-presenter Don Perkins, Internet Services Coordinator, HISD
Texas Computer Educators Association, Regional Conference, Austin, Texas - February, 1996

Lessons My Students Taught Me with co-presenters.
Enron Conference, University of Houston - February, 1996

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1995

Internet Use in the Classroom with co-presenter Don Perkins at the Texas Computer Educators Association, Local Chapter,Houston, Texas - Fall, 1995.

Bridging the Gap Conference
Sponsored by the Washington Children's Museum, Washington D.C. - June 1995

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Siva Kumari
Last updated September, 2000