Ed Events at ESA 2007

Jennifer Reim (ESA Education Coordinator) distributed the following list of education events for the upcoming annual meeting in San Jose. These events have been added to the Ed Section Calendar

Saturday, August 4
10-11:30 Workshop 3: Ecoquest: An Ecological Academic Classroom

Sunday, August 5
8:30-4:30 Workshop 9: Scientific Teaching and Interactive Learning
9-11:45 Workshop 12: Academic Service Learning in Ecology
1-5 Workshop 16: Using Digital Libraries In Undergraduate Teaching

Monday August 6
7-8 EHRC business meeting
10-11:30 Workshop 3: What is NEON becoming?
10-11:30 Workshop 5: ESA Vice Presidents' Summit on Ecological Literacy
10-11:30 Workshop 6: Environmental Justice, Ecology, and Restoration
10-11:30 Workshop 7: How ESA Scientists Obtain Funding from NSF Programs
in the Education and Human Resources Directorate
11:30-1:15 Workshop 17: SEEDS Chapter Highlights
11:30-1:15 Workshop 18: Book Publishing 101 for Ecologists
11:30-1:15 Workshop 19: Teaching Using Conceptual Ecological Modeling
1-2 Undergraduate student orientation
1:30-5 Organized oral session 4: Diagnostic Assessment: Uncovering and
Responding to How our Students are Thinking
6:30-10: Special session 16: What Editors Want: Advice for Submitting
Your Manuscript
8-10 Special session 14: Ecology Education in the Ecological Society of
America
8-10 Special session 10: Increasing Diversity in the Ecological
Workforce

Tuesday August 7
7-8 SEEDS Advisory Board meeting
7-8 Grad student and post doc bagels roundtable w/NEON
8-11:30 Symposium 5: No Child Left Indoors
11:30-1:15 Workshop 21: Introduction to TIEE
11:30-1:15 No Child Left Indoors discussion (from earlier symposium)
11:30-1:15 Student section brownbag
1:30-5 Organized oral session 17: E-learning in Ecology Education
6:30-8 Education section meeting
6:30-8 Traditional Ecological Knowledge section meeting
8-10 Special session 20: How to Succeed in Ecology: Advice from
Professionals
8-10 Special session 18: How to Land and Keep a Job at a Small Liberal
Arts College
8-10 Special session 21: Ecology Education and Outreach Programs at
North American Field Stations

Wednesday August 8
11:30-1:15 Workshop 23: Integrating Educational Outreach Into Academic
Research
11:30-1:15 Workshop 24: Writing a 'Teaching Philosophy' Statement
6:30-8 Diversity Mixer
6:30-8 Student Mixer
8-10 Special session 27: ESA Southeast Knowledge Partnership Pilot
Project
8-10 Special session 26: Bridging the Gap: Establishing Outreach
Activities at ESA Meetings

Thursday August 9
11:30-1:15 Workshop 28: A Guided Tour of EcoEd.net, ESA's Digital
Teaching Library
11:30-1 Diversity luncheon

Web Calendar Added

I've just added a calendar to the web site - see links to the right. It currently includes education events for 2006 ESA Annual Meeting (workshops, special and evening sessions) based upon the current scientific program.

If you would like me to add other events, of interests to the section members, please email them to me. Plain text is good, but the preferred format for these listing is as an .ics file. This is the file format (IETF 2445) used by programs such as Apple Calendar and Mozilla's Calendar and Sunbird, Meetingmaker Millenium, Microsoft Outlook, and others. If anyone is interested in serving as the calendar editor, please let me know.

Using the calendar. Most of the pulldown menus and formatting icons should be relatively self-evident. Mousing over an item in the calendar will display the full title. Clicking on an item will display extended info/notes (if available) in a popup window. Links to documentation and additional info about the web calendar program (PHP iCalendar) are at the bottom of the page.

Announcements

Website Updates
I've just added the "News You Can Use for teaching" section. The page contains a set of (RSS) newsfeeds from several reputable news sources for ecology related current events. These include, BBC News, Eurekalert (AAAS), NewScientist and ScienceDaily. The feeds will automatically update when the page is loaded providing you with links to the most current set of articles. If you know of any additional news sources that would be appropriate for ecological/science education please let me know.

Welcome

Welcome to the Education Section of the Ecological Society of America. We are currently in the process of building out the web site so please be patient as we add content. If you have any ideas about what information you would like to see on the web site or you would like to be an editor for a section of the website, please let me know.