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Text Box:   Updated May 20, 2006 South America (SA) North America (NA) School of Engineering  601 W. Main St. EUROPE (EU) Wednesday May 31 16:00-19:00 Registration 16:00-19:00 Registration 16:00-19:00 Registration   Thursday June 1 7:00-19:00 Registration 8:00-19:00 Registration 10:00-19:00 Registration   Morning - Parallel sessions 7:30-8:00 8:30-9:00 15:30-16:00 Welcome and introductions from the three locations. Peter Blake – Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development Services for the Virginia Community College System.  Former          Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia Eduardo Ismodes -  Dean, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú George Philippou, Local Scientific Committee, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 8:00 –  8:45 9:00 – 9:45 16:00 -16:45 NA site invited speaker: Susan Patrick, President/CEO North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) , Former  Director of the       Office of Educational Technology,  Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education. "Today's Students and the Demands of the Global Workforce: Defining 21st Century Scientific and Technological Literacy” 8:45 - 9:30 9:45 - 10:30 16:45 - 17:30 EU site invited speaker: Nicos Valanides, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee "Beyond Subject Matter Knowledge: Developing  Scientific Reasoning" 9:30 - 9:45 10:30 - 10:45 17:30 - 17:45 Refreshments  break 9:45 - 10:30 10:45 - 11:30 17:45 - 18:30 SA site invited speaker: Benjamín Marticorena, President of CONCYTEC, Lima, Perú "Strategic National Plan of Science, Technology and Innovation for Competitiveness and Human Development" 10:30-11:50 11:30-12:50 18:30-19:50 Selected NA presentations broadcast to the SA and EU sites. Dr. Gary Sarkozi (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Dr. Pat Fishback (Science Museum of Virginia):   "Cool Science:  Conversations With Antarctica" Diana Duckworth, Campbell County Public Schools-Virginia, and Lisa McCray, Salem City Public Schools-Virginia, OVERspace Educators-Virginia Space Grant Consortium. "Implementing Geospatial Technology in the Classroom" 11:50-12:00 12:50-13:00 19:15-20:00 Closing remarks from the NA site 12:00-13:30 13:00-14:30 20:00-21:30 Lunch (NA and SA)/Dinner (EU) and SA invited speaker: 13:30-Afternoon sessions 14:30-Afternoon sessions     Friday June 2 7:00-19:00 - Registration 8:00-19:00 - Registration 10:00-19:00 -Registration   Morning - Parallel sessions 8:00 – 8:45 9:00 – 9:45 16:00-16:45 EU site invited speaker: Zemira Mevarech, Vice Rector of Bar llan University, Israel 8:45-9:30 9:45-10:30 16:45-17:30 SA site invited speaker : Modesto Montoya  President IPEN, Member of Ceprecyt, Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear, Lima, Perú. "Landmarks in the History of Scientific and Technology Knowledge" 9:30-9:45  10:30-10:45  17:30-17:45  Refreshments  break 9:45-10:30  10:45-11:30  17:45-18:30  NA site invited speaker:Anne Tweed, Senior Science Consultant McREL, Mid-continent Research for Education and  Learning; NSTA Retiring-President 2005-2006. "Teacher Professional Development Using Technology Solutions!"  10:30-11:50  11:30-12:50  18:30-19:50  Selected EU presentations broadcast to the NA and SA sites: Scharfenberg, F.-J. & Bogner F.X. ,University of Bayreuth, Germany. "Learning in a gene technology lab with authentic experiments" Graηa Carvalho  (Portugal) and Pierre Clιment (France) "Relationships between digestive, circulatory and urinary systems in Portuguese primary textbooks?" 11:50-12:00  12:50-13:00  19:15-20:00  Closing remarks from the EU site 12:00-13:30  13:00-14:30  20:00-21:30  Lunch (NA and SA)/Dinner (EU) 13:30 - Afternoon sessions 14:30 - Parallel sessions       Saturday June 3 7:00-16:00 - Registration 8:00-17:00 - Registration 10:00-19:00 - Registration   Morning - Parallel sessions 8:00 – 8:45  9:00 – 9:45  16:00 - 16:45  SA site invited speaker:  Teresa Salinas Gamero  Chief of Science – CONCYTEC, Lima, Perú: “National Program for the Popularization of Science, Technology and Innovation, in Peru" 8:45-9:30  9:45-10:30  16:45-17:30  NA site invited speaker: Dr. William E. Dugger, Jr., "Senior Fellow and former Director of Technology for All Americans, International Technology Education Association"  "The Relationships Between Science and Technology and How the Educational Standards for Each of These Disciplines Are Similar Yet Are Different."  9:30-9:45  10:30-10:45  17:30-17:45  Refreshments  break 9:45-10:30  10:45-11:30  17:45-18:30  EU site invited speaker: Susan M. Zvacek, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA "Beyond Button-Pushing: Challenges of Integrating Technology Literacy into Our Teaching" 10:30-11:50  11:30-12:50  18:30-19:50  Selected SA site presentations broadcast to the NA and EU sites     Eduardo Ismodes -  Dean, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú “The experience of interest teams at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at PUCP”  Richard Huber and Dennis Kubasko, Curricular Studies, University of North Carolina, USA "Changing the Way We Teach Science:  Using Internet Based Data Visualization Tools to Access and Interact with Authentic Environmental Data" Jorge Heraud, Principal teacher, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú  "Robots in Engineering Design Education: A Case in Problem Based Learning" 11:50-12:00  12:50-13:00  19:15-20:00  Closing remarks from the SA site 12:00-13:30  13:00-14:30  20:00-21:30 Lunch (NA and SA)/Dinner (EU) 13:30 - Afternoon sessions 14:30 - Parallel sessions       Text Box: The symposium will be held simultaneously at three sites:  One will be located at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA;  The second site will be located at University of Cyprus, in Nicosia, Cyprus;  The third site will be located at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, in Lima, Peru. The symposium sites will be connected through video-conference equipment for simultaneous broadcast of the sessions.  Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Cyprus, and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, have Internet connectivity through the United States, European and South American international backbone networks. This will allow us to interact with our distance learning technology using Internet-based videoconferencing systems. This will allow real-time audio and video communication between the three locations.   The program has been tailored taking into account the time zones for the three sites:  North America (Richmond, VA): - 5:00 GMT South America (Lima, Peru): - 6:00 GMT Europe (Nicosia, Cyprus): + 2:00 GMT    The features of the symposium are as follows: The plenary / global sessions (that will be broadcast live to the three sites) are scheduled for the morning in North America (NA) and South America (SA) and for the afternoon in Europe (EU). The parallel sessions of regional interest and the workshops are scheduled for the afternoon in North and South America, and for the morning in Europe. Poster sessions will be held on Friday and Saturday at the NA site. Exhibitors are scheduled for Thursday, June 1 2006,  14:00 - 17:00, and Friday, June 2 2006, 14:00 - 17:00, for the NA site. The program shown below shows the plenary sessions. In order to access the morning sessions for the European site and the afternoon sessions for the North- American and South-American sites, click on their respective headings.     Symposium Sites

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