Date: Thu, 1 May 1997
To: k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
From: nlux@MIT.EDU (Nan Lux)
Subject: ST/SD Workshops
This is the monthly update from Bob Eberlein. Hope it's useful!
Nan Lux,
Administrator, k-12sd List
--------------------------
>Hi All,
>
>Here is the April monthly calender. Sorry it is so late. I
will try to keep it more timely. You will notice some international
entries have been added. Workshops that focus more >on using
a microworld to learn about a problem are prefixed (M).
>
>If you are offering course that teach system dynamics simulation,
or course that are built around a system dynamics simulation model
microworld please email me the info (vensim@world.std.com) so
I can include it in this posting. You should also update your
course listings periodically.
>
>I have only included course titles, no descriptions. For more
details contact information >is listed at the bottom for the
"Offered By" column.
>
>I hope this will be useful to people.
>
> Bob Eberlein
> vensim@world.std.com
>
>
> (M) denotes a microworld focussed workshop
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date Title Location Offerd By
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Apr 13-18 Systems Thinking and Strategic Model London UK LBS
>Apr 22-23 SEMINAIRE de DYNAMIQUE des SYSTEMES Compiegne FRANCE
KBS
>Apr 23-24 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Cambridge MA
DynS
>May 12-14 Systems Thinking and ithink I Chicago, IL HPS
>May 14-16 Systems Thinking and ithink II Chicago, IL HPS
>May 14-16 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>May 13-14 Power of Systems Thinking Conference Boston Pegasus
>May 15-16 Strategic Modeling with Powersim Boston GKA
>May 15-16 Starting System Dynamics with Vensim Boston VLeap
>Jun 9-10 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Seattle WA DynS
>Jun 11-13 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Seattle WA
DynS
>Jun 16-20 System Dynamics:
> Modeling for Organizational Learning Camridge MA MIT
>Jun 16-18 Systems Thinking and ithink I Boston, MA HPS
>Jun 18-20 Systems Thinking and ithink II Boston, MA HPS
>Jun 19 Dynamique des systhmes et applications Nantes FRANCE
THIEL
>Jul 9-11 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>Jul 14-16 Systems Thinking and ithink I Newport Beach CA HPS
>Jul 16-18 Systems Thinking and ithink II Newport Beach CA
HPS
>Jul 23-25 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Vail CO DynS
>Aug 18-20 Systems Thinking and ithink I Princeton, NJ HPS
>Aug 19-22 The International System Dynamics
> Conference Istanbul TURKEY SD97
>Aug 20-22 Systems Thinking and ithink II Princeton, NJ HPS
>Sep 7-12 Systems Thinking and Strategic Model London UK LBS
>Sep 24-26 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>Oct 8-10 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Los Angeles
CA DynS
>Oct 14-15 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Austin TX DynS
>Oct 27-28 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Boulder CO DynS
>Oct 29-31 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Boulder CO
DynS
>Nov 26-28 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>
>Contact Information:
>
>Cognitus
> Helen J Riley, Phone: +44 (0)1423 562622
> Business Development Fax: +44 (0)1423 567916
> COGNITUS Ltd Email: helen-cognitus@u-net.net
> 1 Park View, Harrogate http://www.cognitus.co.uk
> North Yorkshire, UK, HG1 5LY
>
>DynS
> Greg Hennessy Phone 617.520.6620
> Dynamic Strategies Fax 617.547.1431
> 124 Mt. Auburn St. Email: dynstrat@aol.com
> Suite 200 North
> Cambridge, MA 02138
>
>GKA
> Claire Preisser Phone: 617 441 7766
> GKA Incorporated Fax: 617 491 6744
> 125 CambridgePark Drive Email: preisser@gka.com
> Cambridge MA 02140
>
>HPS
> Lisa Killmer Phone: (800) 332-1202 or
> High Performance Systems, Inc. (603) 643-9636
> 45 Lyme Road, Suite 300 Fax: (603) 643-9502
> Hanover, NH 03755 Email: lkillmer@hps-inc.com
> http://www.hps-inc.com
>
>KBS
> K.B.S. Phone +33 140518337
> 287, rue St. Jacques +33 143544796
> 75005 Paris Fax 33 1 44 07 0059
> FRANCE Email: kbs-fr@world-net.sct.fr
>
>http://rafale.worldnet.net/~kbs-fr/compiegn.htm
>LBS
> Karen Nisbett Phone: +44 (0) 171 706 6835
> Client Services Executive Fax: +44 (0) 171 724 6051
> London Business School E-mail: execinfo@lbs.lon.ac.uk
> Sussex Place, Regent's Park
> London NW1 4SA, UK
>
>MIT
> Elizabeth Martin Phone(brochure) 617 253 4432
> Program Manager Phone: 617 253 7166
> MIT Sloan School of Management Fax: 617 252 1200
> 50 Memorial Drive Suite E52-101 Email: sloanexeced@mit.edu
> Cambridge MA 02142 http://web.mit.edu/sloan-exec-ed/
>
>Pegasus
> Pegasus Communications Phone: 617 576 1231
> 1696 Massachusetts Avenue Fax: 617 576 3114
> Cambridge MA 02138 www.pegasuscom.com
>
>SD97
> Yaman Barlas Phone: 90 212 257 8097
> Dept of Industrial Engineering Fax: 90 212 265 1800
> Bogazici University Email: sd97@boun.edu.tr
> 80815 Bebeck Istanbul http://ieiris.cc.boun.edu.tr/sd97
> TURKEY
>
>THIEL
> http://www.enitiaa-nantes.fr/enitiaa/new/new.html
>
>VLeap
> Bob Eberlein Phone: 617 489 5249
> Ventana LeapTec Workshops. Fax: 617 489 5316
> 149 Waverley Street Email: WorkShops@vensim.com
> Belmont MA 02178 http://www.vensim.com
>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997
To: k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
From: nlux@MIT.EDU (Nan Lux)
Subject: Job Opening
"This may be of interest to you although it does not seem to have syste dynamics content."
Posted by Nan Lux, k-12sd Administrator
---------------------------
>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997
>From: steve purcell <purcell@cotf.edu>
>Subject: request to post an announcement
>Dear Listserv Administrators:
>
>I am writing to ask if you would be willing to post the following
announcement to your listserv
>subscribers. The NASA Classroom of the Future is looking for
40 exemplary math, science, and
>technology education teachers to participate in its 2001 Master
Teacher Cadre program. Since time is of
>the essence (in terms of application deadlines), I am hoping
you would be willing to help us recruit
>teachers for participation in the program. If you would kindly
send me a short reply that indicates
>whether you'll post the announcement, I won't have to bother
you with follow-up inquiries. Thanks for
>your help!
>
>Steven L. Purcell, Ph.D.
>NASA Classroom of the Future
>316 Washington Avenue
>Wheeling, WV 26003
>
> Announcement Follows -------------------------
40 FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE!
>
> NASA's Classroom of the Future
> Announces a Call for Participation in its
>
> 2001 MASTER TEACHER CADRE PROGRAM
>
> http://www.cotf.edu/news/workshops
>
>
>The NASA Classroom of the Future (COTF) program is accepting
applications
>from enthusiastic, dynamic math, science, and technology education
teachers
>to participate in its 2001 Master Teacher Cadre program. Forty
fellowships
>are available that will fund the complete participation of
exemplary
>teachers who are interested in using technology to enhance
learning and
>teaching. Beginning in the summer of 1997, the COTF will create
a cadre of
>educators who are skilled in the effective use and integration
of
>technology in a variety of K-12 educational settings. Utilizing
the COTF's
>Center for Educational Technologies (CET), participants will
undertake
>coursework in the general areas of telecommunications and
distance
>learning, multimedia development, instructional design and
theory,
>educational research, technology management and implementation,
and more.
>Upon completion of the program, participants will be well
prepared to
>* serve as technology specialists in K-12 arenas,
>* work as commercial and industrial training specialists in
corporate
>environments, or
>* assume administrative leadership roles in the integration
and
>application of information technologies.
#### WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FELLOWSHIPS ############
>Applicants selected to participate in the 2001 Master Teacher
Cadre
>program will receive all of the following FREE OF CHARGE:
>* Up to 14 semester hours of graduate credit from Wheeling
Jesuit
>University (6 hours in the summer of 1997, 4 hours in the
fall of 1997,
>and
>4 hours in the spring of 1998).
>* Up to $500 for round-trip travel to and from Wheeling, West
Virginia.
>* Lodging (participants will receive single rooms with private
baths in
>the new eight-story, air conditioned residence hall on the
campus of
>Wheeling Jesuit University).
>* Meals (provided by the Marriott Food Service in the Benedum
Dining Room
>on campus).
>* Textbooks.
>* Software (including HyperStudio and Adobe PageMill).
>* Miscellaneous supplies (Zip disk and other COTF premiums).
>Total value of this package is $6,700.
####### HOW TO APPLY ############
>Complete program details and application procedures are available
on the
>NASA Classroom of the Future's World Wide Web site
http://www.cotf.edu/news/workshops
>Hurry, the application deadline is Friday, May 30, 1997.
####### ABOUT THE COTF... ############
>The Classroom of the Future program at Wheeling Jesuit University
serves as
>the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's)
principal
>research and development center for educational technologies
providing
>model technology-based tools and resources to K-12 schools
in math,
>science, and technology. The program resides in a 48,000 square
foot,
>state-of-the-art, high-technology education facility called
the Center for
>Educational Technologies (CET). The CET contains several
>multimedia-capable
>classrooms; a video production suite featuring Ku-Band broadcast
>capability; high-speed, broad bandwidth connectivity to the
Internet; a
>distance learning classroom; a NASA regional Teacher Resource
Center
>(RTRC); a Challenger Learning Center with Space Flight and
Mission Control
>simulators; and administrative offices.
>Funded as part of NASA's mission to support educational reform,
the COTF
>research agenda includes innovative uses of computer and telecommunications
>technologies to improve learning and teaching in mathematics,
science, and
>technology education. Of special interest to the COTF are
those
>technologies that enable K-12 students and teachers to have
equitable
>access to NASA expertise, data, and educational materials.
At a time when
>educators are being called upon to use new information technologies
to
>improve the learning and teaching processes, the COTF is poised
to lead
>the way.
>FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
>Steven L. Purcell, Ph.D.
>Teacher Trainer / Staff Developer
>NASA Classroom of the Future Program
>Wheeling, WV 26003
>e-mail: purcell@cotf.edu
>voice: (304) 243-2498
>World Wide Web: http://www.cotf.edu/news/workshops
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997
From: William Costello <will@cvumail.cvu.cssd.k12.vt.us>
To: nlux@MIT.EDU, k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
Subject: Job Opening -Reply
RE: Nan Lux's posting of the COTF program (see above)
This would be an ideal avenue for an SD advocate/educator to introduce and integrate SD into the COTF program. The COTF program is emerging as one of the most energetic and well-funded/equipped k-12 technology programs in the country. If you have an interest in SD in education and a desire to participate in COTF I would urge you to consider this program. Check out the COTF's programs such as Bio-Blast, Exploring the Environment, and Astronomy Village at
<www.cotf.edu>
will
Date: 7 May 1997
From: "Jennifer Keiser" <Jennifer_Keiser@inspiration.com>
Subject: Inspiration Education Editi
To: "k 12" <k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu>
Inspiration Education Edition Beta Available
Hi folks,
I know some of you use Inspiration to teach systems to your younger students, so I wanted to let you know that the beta version of our _first_ education-specific edition went up on web site last night! Here's the full release:
Inspiration Software, Inc. today announced the beta release of the first education-focused version of their flagship product, Inspiration. The Inspiration 5.0 Education Edition beta release is available free for a limited time, and can be downloaded from Inspiration's web site:
http://www.inspiration.com.
Inspiration is a powerful visual learning tool that inspires students to organize their thinking. Students use Inspiration's Diagram view to dynamically create and modify concept maps, webs and other graphical organizers. With its easy-to-use interface, students focus on their ideas, not the drawing process. The integrated Outline view enables students to quickly prioritize and rearrange ideas,helping them create clear, concise writing.
Inspiration is state-recommended software in Florida and Texas, and is included in the current Apple Education Productivity bundle.
Visual interface
The Inspiration 5.0 Education Edition features a visual interface
designed specifically for creating and updating concept maps,
webs and outlines. New toolbars make it easier use and learn Inspiration.
A redesigned symbol palette gives students quick access to over
500 symbol shapes - representations of transportation, holiday
themes, animals, etc. - that allow students to personalize their
diagrams.
Free until June 9
The Inspiration 5.0 Education Edition beta release expires June
9, at which time the commercial version of Inspiration 5.0 Education
Edition may be purchased. Please be aware that although the beta
version has undergone extensive testing, bugs do remain. The beta
release does not qualify for technical support.
The commercial version of Inspiration 5.0 Education Edition will have free technical support. It will be available in a single-user version, lab packs and site licenses.
Inspiration Software, Inc. is a privately held corporation that
focuses on the development and support of visual thinking software.
-----
Inspiration Software URL: http://www.inspiration.com
Contact: Jennifer Keiser, tel. (503) 297 3004 x 15,
email jkeiser@inspiration.com
From: "David Gillespie" <davidfg@fidnet.com>
To: <k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu>
Subject: Intro David Gillespie
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997
I teach a course on organizational dynamics for social work students.
The emphasis is on government and social service organizations,
but not completely since I believe that principles of system dynamics
underlie all organizations. I am interested in learning the best
ways of teaching systems principles, and the best ways of integrating
systems principles with tqm practices. I am thinking about including
some work with iThink, Vensim, etc. to help promote student self-discovery
and to help students connect the abstract principles of systems
with everyday patterns.
David Gillespie
Date: Wed, 07 May
From: Robert John Mcleod <rmcleod@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Organization: University of Sydney
Subject: K-12 Email Discussion Group
Dear Discussion Group Members,
Hi. I am Robert McLeod from the University of Sydney in Australia and I am completing a doctoral thesis on Organisational Learning (OL) as it applies to schools.
Last year, as my pilot study, my supervisor (Dr. Kevin Laws) and I presented a series of Seminars to Senior Managers from Primary and Secondary Independent schools in NSW, to help them implement some of the LO strategies into their schools/faculities. This involved follow up research with each participant. We are doing the same again this year as well as assisting an entire school (K-12) to implement LO strategies. We base the work on your MIT studies, especially the work of Professor Peter Senge.
Dr Kevin Laws has also been doing some pioneer work on LO's in Taiwan Universities over the past year. Last week he was a keynote speaker at a conference in Taipei for 600 School Principals.In October 1996 Dr Laws and I presented a paper on OL as it applies to educational institutions at the OL and Systems Conference at Monash University in Melbourne. We intend to present another paper this year at the conference in October at the University of Queensland.
The methodology used in our research has been based on the action research and grounded theory approach and we have been encouraged to use "learning histories" thanks to the work being done at MIT by George Roth, Art Kleiner and others. We have also found the LO Journal from MCB University Press (akaminska@mcb.co.uk) to be very useful.
My best regards to you all and I hope to be able to keep you posted
on the progress of LO's in the great southern land and the home
of the great white shark (Greg Norman???)
Cheers for now
Robert McLeod.
From: "Hasan Zareei" <ZAREEI_H@NET1CS.modares.ac.ir>
To: k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997
Subject: (U)<-,(I)-C00PERATI0N
Hi All,
I'm working on a subject, that is " University and industrial cooperation-a system analysis." Suppose that there is not an ideal or strength cooperation between U&I. May be many causes and effects in this problem for example education programs not for using in industries. The first question is, what kind of tools are useful and effective. May be sysetm Dynamics approach a good tools.Inaddition what are avalable such as especialist in this problem ,papers,Similars works and so on.
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> >Thnaks for advance your help. < <
> > Hassan Zareei. < <
> > IE. Graduate Student of TMU. < <
> >zareei_h@net1cs.modares.ac.ir < <
> >...............................< <
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997
To: k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
From: nlux@MIT.EDU (Nan Lux)
Subject: Monthly Calender
Hi, k-12sd List, Here's the updated schedule of system dynamics/systems thinking workshops. Sorry for the dupe to some of you! Best, Nan Lux, Administrator, k-12sd List
------------------------------------------------
>Date: Sat, 17 May 1997
>From: Bob L Eberlein <vensim@world.std.com>
>To: system-dynamics@world.std.com
>Subject: PERIODIC Monthly Calender (SD0878)
>Hi All,
>
>Here is the May monthly calender.
>
>If you are offering courses that teach system dynamics simulation,
>or course that are built around a system dynamics simulation
model
>microworld please email me the info (vensim@world.std.com)
so I >can
>include it in this posting. You should also update your course
>listings periodically.
>
>I have only included course titles, no descriptions. For more
>details contact information is listed at the bottom for the
"Offered By"
>>column.
>
>I hope this will be useful to people.
>
> Bob Eberlein
> vensim@world.std.com
>
> (M) denotes a microworld focussed workshop
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date Title Location Offerd By
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jun 9-10 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Seattle WA DynS
>Jun 11-13 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Seattle WA
DynS
>Jun 16-20 System Dynamics:
> Modeling for Organizational Learning Camridge MA MIT
>Jun 16-18 Systems Thinking and ithink I Boston, MA HPS
>Jun 18-20 Systems Thinking and ithink II Boston, MA HPS
>Jun 19 Dynamique des systhmes et applications Nantes FRANCE
THIEL
>Jun 25-27 Introductory and Advanced Vensim Seattle WA VLEAP
>Jul 9-11 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>Jul 14-16 Systems Thinking and ithink I Newport Beach CA HPS
>Jul 16-18 Systems Thinking and ithink II Newport Beach CA
HPS
>Jul 23-25 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Vail CO DynS
>Aug 5-8 Systems Thinking with the STELLA Sof Durham, NH HPS
>Aug 18-20 Systems Thinking and ithink I Princeton, NJ HPS
>Aug 19-22 The International System Dynamics
> Conference Istanbul TURKEY SD97
>Aug 20-22 Systems Thinking and ithink II Princeton, NJ HPS
>Sep 7-12 Systems Thinking and Strategic Model London UK LBS
>Sep 21-26 International Conf COMPLEX SYSTEMS Boston MA necsi@necsi.org
>Sep 24-26 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>Oct 8-10 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Los Angeles
CA DynS
>Oct 14-15 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Austin TX DynS
>Oct 27-28 (M)Dynamic Marketing Strategies Boulder CO DynS
>Oct 29-31 (M)Design and Management Strategi... Boulder CO
DynS
>Nov 26-28 Systems Thinking & ithink Harrogate UK Cognitus
>
>Contact Information:
>
>Cognitus
> Helen J Riley, Phone: +44 (0)1423 562622
> Business Development Fax: +44 (0)1423 567916
> COGNITUS Ltd Email: info@cognitus.co.uk
> 1 Park View, Harrogate http://www.cognitus.co.uk
> North Yorkshire, UK, HG1 5LY
>
>DynS
> Greg Hennessy Phone 617.520.6620
> Dynamic Strategies Fax 617.547.1431
> 124 Mt. Auburn St. Email: dynstrat@aol.com
> Suite 200 North
> Cambridge, MA 02138
>
>GKA
> Claire Preisser Phone: 617 441 7766
> GKA Incorporated Fax: 617 491 6744
> 125 CambridgePark Drive Email: preisser@gka.com
> Cambridge MA 02140
>
>HPS
> Lisa Killmer Phone: (800) 332-1202 or
> High Performance Systems, Inc. (603) 643-9636
> 45 Lyme Road, Suite 300 Fax: (603) 643-9502
> Hanover, NH 03755 Email: lkillmer@hps-inc.com
> http://www.hps-inc.com
>
>KBS
> K.B.S. Phone +33 140518337
> 287, rue St. Jacques +33 143544796
> 75005 Paris Fax 33 1 44 07 0059
> FRANCE Email: kbs-fr@world-net.sct.fr
> http://myweb.worldnet.fr/~kbs-fr
>LBS
> Karen Nisbett Phone: +44 (0) 171 706 6835
> Client Services Executive Fax: +44 (0) 171 724 6051
> London Business School E-mail: execinfo@lbs.lon.ac.uk
> Sussex Place, Regent's Park
> London NW1 4SA, UK
>
>MIT
> Elizabeth Martin Phone(brochure) 617 253 4432
> Program Manager Phone: 617 253 7166
> MIT Sloan School of Management Fax: 617 252 1200
> 50 Memorial Drive Suite E52-101 Email: sloanexeced@mit.edu
> Cambridge MA 02142 http://web.mit.edu/sloan-exec-ed/
>
>Pegasus
> Pegasus Communications Phone: 617 576 1231
> 1696 Massachusetts Avenue Fax: 617 576 3114
> Cambridge MA 02138 www.pegasuscom.com
>
>SD97
> Yaman Barlas Phone: 90 212 257 8097
> Dept of Industrial Engineering Fax: 90 212 265 1800
> Bogazici University Email: sd97@boun.edu.tr
> 80815 Bebeck Istanbul http://ieiris.cc.boun.edu.tr/sd97
> TURKEY
>
>THIEL
> http://www.enitiaa-nantes.fr/enitiaa/new/new.html
>
>VLeap
> Bob Eberlein Phone: 617 489 5249
> Ventana LeapTec Workshops. Fax: 617 489 5316
> 149 Waverley Street Email: WorkShops@vensim.com>
Belmont MA 02178 http://www.vensim.com