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Tips & Techniques:

Think back to your first term teaching... now think about how much you've learned
about teaching computer science since that time. Help us unlock the incredible
store of practical knowledge each of us represents by sharing some of your favorite
tips and techniques (T&T) in a short, informal presentation.

Conferences are all about communicating ideas, some big, some little. A tips and
techniques presentation is an easy and fun way of sharing your experience with
our community. These short presentations are also a great way of introducing yourself
and making new contacts as people intrigued with your idea seek you out for informal
discussions.

Each T&T session will consist of short presentations (10 minutes), each of which
explains the motivation, the context, the application, and the results of a particular
tip or technique.

As a presenter you are strongly encouraged to not use a fancy presentation tool.
Keeping things simple, informal and interactive is the goal for the T&T sessions.

Each idea will be supported by a one-page summary that will appear in the
proceedings. Summaries should refer to URLs for detailed implementation notes.

What makes a good T&T presentation? Just about anything that's worked well for you
- a particular assignment, a method of assessment, a class activity, a pedagogical tool.
Here are some suggestions to get your juices flowing:

1. An effective, easy way of making student teams.
2. A simple analogy to explain a difficult concept in operating systems.
3. How I use tool X for class Y.
4. My favorite means of monitoring individual progress in a class.
5. The successful argument we used to get X funded by the administration.
6. What it's like to teach course X with language Y.
7. What single concept students most often confuse in course X.
8. What I do about it.
9. How to explain a particular feature in language X to students who learned
   language Y.
10. How this seemingly good idea blew up in my face.
11. A five minute class exercise to teach X.
12. My favorite pedagogical pattern and how I've used it.
13. How our department finally conquered the perenial problem of X.
14. An engaging idea for a CS1 assignment.
15. The best single piece of advice a wise person once gave me about teaching was X.

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