Vern Ceder's Professional Development Log

This is to log what I consider my main professional development activities.

2010-2011

Presented day long tutorial on Python for Linux System Administration at Ohio Linux Fest, Columbus, OH, Sept 10, 2010.
Presented day long tutorial on Linux System Administration at HECC (Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators) conference Nov 18, 2010.
Am repeating as chair of poster session at PyCon, Atlanta, March 11-13.

I gave a talk on Python at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in Washington DC, June 29, 2009. The Python Software Foundation also gave me a $500 grant to support my talk.
Kathie Nunley presentation Aug 17
Presented talk "Python for Linux System Administration" at Ohio Linux Fest, Columbus, OH, Sept 26 to about 300.
Attend HECC (Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators) conference Nov 13, 2009. I presented a talk - "Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting".
Attended PyCon (national Python programming conference) in Atlanta, Feb 25-28. I'm one of the organizers of the Python in Education Birds of a Feather session. I was also the organizer of PyCon's first ever poster sessions.

Plan to take exams to get my Linux Certified Professional Level II certification.

polishing an application to help test/synchronize code and output in a programming book...

Wrote/revised the 2nd edition of The Quick Python Book for Python 3. Published by Manning publishers on January 2010.
blog about Pythonic topics at http://learnpython.wordpress.com

I gave a talk on Python at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in San Antonio, TX, July 2, 2008.
I am also accepted for to give a talk at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC. The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has given me a grant of $500 for expenses
Presentation to MS faculty on STOA
K12 Open Minds conference, Indianapolis, IN, Sept 25-26, 2008
- Served on the organizing committee
- Organized a panel discussion "Schools & LUGs - Pitfalls & Potential"
- Attended a day long NCOSE summit on Open Source in Education.
Attended Ohio Linux Fest, Columbus, OH, Oct 10-11. Met and spoke with Jon "maddog" Hall and other leaders in open source software.
attended HECC (Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators) conference Nov 14, 2008. I presented a talk - "Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting". I'm also down to present the same talk again this year, in November, 2009.
With Anita Bates, I was accepted to present two half day workshops at the 2009 ICE (Indiana Computer Educators) conference, Jan 28, 2009 **Cancelled due to weather**
Attended PyCon (national Python programming conference) in Chicago, March 27-29. I'm usually one of the organizers of the Python in Education Birds of a Feather session. I also hung around for a programming sprint, March 30-31, working on the CherryPy webserver.
For the coming year I will be the coordinator of a new PyCon feature - an educational poster session.

Took exams to renew my Linux Certified Professional basic certification, Sept 2008. I should get my level 2 certification this school year also.

Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely. Studies of human behavior. Oct, 2008
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, Andy Hunt. Applying the Dreyfus model of skill levels and various ideas from brain research and learning theory to the thinking and learning process, esp. from the point of view of programming. Oct, 2008
"Questioning General Education", Marvin Minsky. Thoughts on general vs. specific education from one of the greats at MIT. Nov. 2008
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, read to provide feedback for summer reading possibilities.
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, read to provide feedback for summer reading possibilities - on Kindle.
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, read to provide feedback for summer reading possibilities - on Kindle.
Scrooge meets Dick and Jane, on Kindle.

hacking Python's doctest library to allow for regular expression matching in output. August 2008
work on bigdisk, an open source distributed file system.
"sprinted" at PyCon 2009 - March 30-13, 2009 - helped work on converting the Cherrypy web application to Python 3
polishing an application to help test/synchronize code and output in a programming book...

signed contract with Manning publishers to produce a revision of The Quick Python Book for Python 3 on 11/22/2008. 2/3 of MS has passed initial review as of 05/15/28. Publication scheduled for November, 2009.

met with LS science and computer teachers to begin work on an integrated K12 curriculum for robotics, control technologies and programming. Oct 2008.
working on re-thinking 9th grade segment, with Simón

professional development activities (last edited 2010-11-29 13:26:13 by VernCeder)