Papers and Talks from the CoVis Project

Last Update 1/9/98

This page contains papers and overheads from talks by CoVis staff members or CoVis participants on a variety of topics. (Note: It may be tricky to interpret slides from a presentation without the accompanying narration -- use at your own risk!)

The majority of these papers and talks are made available here as "PDF" files, a format from Adobe designed to work with a variety of computer platforms. You may download free software for viewing these files from the Adobe Acrobat page. Please make sure you have the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat to ensure compatibility. Current versions for Macintosh and Windows are 3.0.

If you do not see the "PDF" icon next to a file, it is available on the web as HTML. If you have trouble downloading or viewing these files, please send email to the CoVis Project's webmaster at webmaster@covis.northwestern.edu.

A full curriculum vitae of the CoVis Project, which includes bibliographic references to many papers and presentations that cannot be made available for distribution via the web (but may still be useful for reference purposes) is also available.

All material on these pages and in the papers and presentations downloadable from them is
Copyright © Northwestern University, 1992-1997, unless noted otherwise in the document contents.

Overviews of the CoVis Project

	A two-page Overview of the CoVis Project. Includes screen shots of several CoVis applications. (last update 9/1/96)	234K
	Edelson, D. (1997). Realising Authentic Science Learning through the Adaptation of Scientific Practice. To appear in K. Tobin & B. Fraser (Eds.), International Handbook of Science Education, Kluwer, Dordrecht, NL.	54K
	Perspectives on Evaluation of the CoVis Project. Slides from a talk presented at the National Science Foundation on 11/1/96.	27K
	Edelson, D., Pea, R., & Gomez, L. (1996). Constructivism in the Collaboratory. In B. G. Wilson (Ed.), Constructivist learning environments: Case studies in instructional design, (pp. 151-164). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.	68K
HTML	Pea, R., Gomez, L., & Edelson, D. (1995). Science education as a driver of cyberspace technology development. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Internet Society. http://www.net.edu.cn/HMP/PAPER/210/abst.html [Electronic document].	68K
	Pea, R., Edelson, D., & Gomez, L. (1994, April). The CoVis Collaboratory: High school science learning supported by a broadband educational network with scientific visualization, videoconferencing, and collaborative computing. Presented in the Symposium "Issues in Computer Networking in K-12 Classrooms: A Progress Report of Four NSF Testbeds," at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.	41K
	Pea, R., Edelson, D., & Gomez, L. (1994). Distributed collaborative science learning using scientific visualization and wideband telecommunications. Paper presented at the symposium entitled "Multimedia information systems for science and engineering education: Harnessing technologies." at the 160th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Francisco.	54K
	Ramamurthy, R. K., B.Wilhelmson, R., Pea, R. D., Gomez, L. M., & Edelson, D. C. (1995). CoVis: A national science education collaboratory. Proceedings of the American Meteorological Society 4th Conference on Education Joint with the 11th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Dallas, TX, January 15-20, 1995.	41K

Scientific Visualization Tools & Theory

	Edelson, D. C., Gordin, D. N., Pea, R. D. (1997, March). Creating Science Learning Tools from Experts' Investigation Tools: A Design Framework. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Oak Brook, IL, March 21-24, 1997.	189K
	Gordin, D. N., Edelson, D. C., & Gomez, L. M. (1996). Scientific Visualization as an Interpretive and Expressive Medium. In D. C. Edelson & E. A. Domeshek (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, July 1996, Evanston, IL, (pp. 409-414). Charlottesville, VA: AACE.	41K
	Gordin, D. N., Edelson, D. C., & Pea, R. D. (1996). Supporting Students' Science Inquiry through Scientific Visualization Activities. Paper presented as part of an interactive symposium entitled "Scientific Visualization Tools in Science Classrooms" at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, April 8-12, 1996.	54K
HTML	Edelson, D. C., & Gordin, D. N. (1996, September). Adapting Digital Libraries for Learners: Accessibility vs. Availability. D-Lib Magazine, September 1996. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september96/nwu/09edelson.html	203K
	Gordin, D. N., Edelson, D. C., & Pea, R. D. (1995). The Greenhouse Effect Visualizer: A tool for the science classroom. Proceedings of the American Meteorological Society 4th Conference on Education Joint with the 11th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Dallas, TX, January 15-20, 1995, (pp. (J6)47-(J6)52).	135K
	Fishman, B. & D'Amico, L. (1994). Which way will the wind blow? Networked computer tools for studying the weather. In T. Ottmann & I. Tomek (Eds.), Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1994: Proceedings of Ed-Media '94 (pp. 209-216). Charlottesville, VA: AACE.	230K
	Edelson, D., Gomez, L., Polman, J., Gordin, D., & Fishman, B. (1994, April). Scaffolding Student Inquiry with Collaborative Visualization Tools. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1994, as part of the symposium entitled "Next-Generation Computing and Communications Environments for Learning and Teaching."	257K

Collaboration & Communication Tools & Theory

	Fishman, B. (1997, March). Classroom Use of Computer Mediated Communication: What Matters and Why?. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.	135K
	Fishman, B. (Chair), Hoadley, C., Harasim, L., Hsi, S., Levin, J., Linn, M., Pea, R., Scardamalia, M. (1997, March). Collaboration, Communication, and Computers: What Do We Think We Know About Networks and Learning?. Panel held at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.	54K
HTML	Gordin, D., Gomez, L., Pea, R., & Fishman, B. (1996). Using the World Wide Web to Build Learning Communities in K-12. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2(3) [Electronic Journal].	n/a
	Edelson, D. C., & Lento, E. M. (1996). Teachers as Seekers of Understanding: Technological Support for a Partnership between Teachers and Students. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "The Teacher as Seeker of Understanding: Implications for Student Learning and Teacher Preparation" at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, April 8-12, 1996.	203K
	Fishman, B. (1995). High-End High School Communication: Strategies and Practices of Students in a Networked Environment. Doctoral Consortium paper and Interactive Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Computer Human Interaction special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery, Denver, CO, pp. 51-52; 99-100.	14K
	O'Neill, K., Edelson, D., Gomez, L., D'Amico, L. (1995). Learning to weave collaborative hypermedia into classroom practice. In J. Schnase and E. Cunnius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (p. 255-258). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.	27K
	Edelson, D., O'Neill, K., Gomez, L., D'Amico, L. (1995). A design for effective support of inquiry and collaboration. In J. Schnase and E. Cunnius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (p. 107-111). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.	54K
	Polman, J., & Fishman, B. (1995, April). Electronic Communication Tools in the Classroom: Student and Environmental Characteristics as Predictors of Adoption. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.	54K
	Gomez, L., Fishman, B., & Polman, J. (1994). Media Spaces and Their Application in K-12 and College Learning Communities. In L. Gomez (Chair), Media Spaces and Their Application in K-12 and College Learning Communities. Panel conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Computer Human Interaction special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery, Boston, MA, pp. 185-186.	14K
	Edelson, D.C., & O'Neill, D.K. (1994, April). The CoVis Collaboratory Notebook: Computer Support for Scientific Inquiry. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1994, as part of a symposium entitled "Computer-Supported Collaboration for Scientific Inquiry: Bringing Science Learning Closer to Science Practice"	122K
	Edelson, D.C., & O'Neill, D.K. (1994). The CoVis Collaboratory Notebook: Supporting collaborative scientific inquiry. In A. Best (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 National Educational Computing Conference (pp.146-152). Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education in cooperation with the National Education Computing Association.	81K
	O'Neill, D.K. (1994, June). The Collaboratory Notebook: A Networked Knowledge-Building Environment for Project Learning. In T. Ottmann & I. Tomek (Eds.), Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1994: Proceedings of Ed-Media '94 (pp. 416-423). Charlottesville, VA: AACE.	81K
	Fishman, B., & Pea, R.D. (1994). The Internetworked School: A Policy for the Future. Technos: Quarterly of Education and Technology, 3(1), 22-26. (Note: This file was scanned directly from print, and thus is a bit less legible.)	716K

Mentoring

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O'Neill, K. (1996, April). Telementoring: One researcher's perspective. The newsletter of the BBN National School Network Project, #12 [electronic document].

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Classroom Assessment

D'Amico, L. (1996, July). The role of assessment infrastructures in crafting project based science classrooms. In D. C. Edelson & E. A. Domeshek (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, July 25-27, 1996, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Charlottesville, VA: AACE.

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Project-Enhanced Learning

	Polman, J. L. (1996, July). Bootstrapping a community of practice: Learning science by doing projects in a high school classroom. In D. C. Edelson & E. A. Domeshek (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, 1996 (pp. 474-479). Charlottesville, VA: AACE.	27K
	Polman, J. L. (1996, July). Guiding expeditions: The iterative, situated design of a learning environment for project-based science. In D. C. Edelson & E. A. Domeshek (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, 1996 (pp. 585-586). Doctoral Consortium conducted at ICLS 96. Charlottesville, VA: AACE.	14K
	Gordin, D. N., Edelson, D. C., Gomez, L. M., Lento, M., & Pea, R. D. (1996). Student conference on global warming: A collaborative network-supported ecologically hierarchic geosciences curriculum, Proceedings of the Fifth American Meteorological Society Education Symposium, January 1996.	41K
	Gomez, L.M. & Gordin, D.N. Establishing project enhanced classrooms through design. In D. Jonassen & G. McCalla (Eds.), Proceedings of ICCE '95 International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 20-27). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.	41K
	Gomez, L.M., Gordin, D.N., & Carlson, P. A case study of open-ended scientific inquiry in a technology supported classroom. In J. Greer (Ed.), Proceedings of AI-Ed '95, Seventh World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 17-24). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.	41K
	D'Amico, L., Gomez, G., & McGee, S. (1994). A case study of student and teacher use of projects in a technology-supported distributed learning environment. In Kaplan, R.M. & Burstein, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Educational Testing Service Conference on Natural Language Processing Techniques and Technology in Assessment and Education (pp. 15-30). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.	68K

Community Newsletters

	CoVis Connections -- January, 1997	284K
	CoVis Connections -- October, 1996	176K
	CoVis Connections -- June, 1996	446K
	CoVis Connections -- March, 1996	432K
	CoVis Connections -- December, 1995	473K
	CoVis Connections -- October, 1995	378K
	CoVis Connections -- July, 1995	257K

CoVis-Related Dissertations

	Fishman, B. (1996). High-End High School Communication: Tool Use Practices of Students in a Networked Environment. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.	567K
	Polman, B. (1997). Guiding Science Expeditions: The Design of a Learning Environment for Project-Based Science. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.	729K