[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: [Cuttingedge] Cutting Edge workshop: Teaching Geoscience Online]

[Paula Fisher]

This might be of interest to some of you who plan to teach later in your 
careers.

Paula

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Subject: 	[Cuttingedge] Cutting Edge workshop: Teaching Geoscience Online
Date: 	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:19:49 -0400
From: 	Heather Macdonald <rhmacd at wm.edu>
To: 	cuttingedge at serc.carleton.edu



Hello,

Here's a workshop announcement from Karin Kirk.  Application deadline 
is May 7, 2010.

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On the Cutting Edge workshop: Teaching Geoscience Online - June 23-29, 2010

Do you teach online? Are you considering moving your courses online 
but unsure of the best way to proceed?

The online classroom offers a new way to reach students, yet it also 
demands new adaptations of how we teach.  Moreover, teaching 
geoscience online brings its own challenges. How can one teach the 
tried and true "rocks in a box" lab over the internet? What about 
field trips, group work, and moving content, visualizations and 
datasets into a whole new format?

The On the Cutting Edge workshop series will be hosting a summer 
workshop to help us support these challenges. This workshop is for 
faculty who teach geoscience courses in an online format, who are 
planning on teaching online in the near future, or who are engaged in 
research about online education.

Naturally, this workshop will take place online and will include a 
series of web-based synchronous and asynchronous sessions from June 
23 through 29. The workshop program will be a blend of presentations 
from expert practitioners of online learning, panel discussions, 
on-line chat sessions, and time for guided individual and small group 
work. A primary focus of the workshop will be the development of 
course components and teaching materials specifically designed for 
use in online courses. These materials will be published on the 
website for use by other faculty.

There is a workshop fee of $50, and the workshop application deadline 
is Friday May 7. In advance of the workshop, accepted participants 
will be asked to submit a course description, a module, an activity, 
or a course component designed for an online course. For more 
information (and to apply for the workshop), please visit the 
workshop website at:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/online2010/

If you have questions, please contact Karin Kirk
kkirk at carleton.edu

Please feel free to pass this note along to interested colleagues.

Thank you!
Karin Kirk
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College


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Heather Macdonald
Chancellor Professor of Geology
College of William and Mary
757-221-2443
fax: 757-221-2093
rhmacd at wm.edu
http://www.wm.edu/geology/

Mail Address:
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795

UPS or FedEx Address:
McGlothlin-Street Hall Room 227
Williamsburg, VA  23185

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