Ed Events at ESA 2008

Below is the list of education events for the upcoming annual meeting in Milwaukee. These events have been added to the Ed Section Calendar. If you would like to add any events, please email Rett Weber.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

8:00 AM-5:00 PM: WK 5. Quantitative Approaches in Ecological Research and Education Using R

8:30 AM-4:30 PM: WK 9. Innovative Teaching and Active Learning: Principles, Practice, and Materials

9:00 AM-4:30 PM: WK 11. An Educational Simulation Tool for Negotiating Sustainable Natural Resource Management Strategies among Social Actors with Conflicting Interests

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: WK 14 Using Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQCs) to Improve Introductory Biology Teaching

12:30 PM-4:30 PM: WK 16. Toward learner-centered soil ecology education: Integrating research and experiential activities into teaching soils

1:30 PM-4:30 PM: WK 19. Ecology Education in Religious Organizations: Advancing Ecological Literacy and Environmental Justice

Monday, August 4, 2008

10:15 AM-11:30 AM: SS 5. Student Diversity: Trail Blazers in Transforming the Culture of Ecology

10:15 AM-11:30 AM: SS 3. Student Ecological Research on K-12 School Grounds

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 20. Introduction to TIEE (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology): A Peer-Reviewed Electronic Publication Designed to Help Ecology Faculty Teach Better

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 22. The Art of Mentoring: How to get out of your niche

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: SYMP 1. Why Is Ecology Hard To Learn: K-16 Through Graduate Students

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: OOS 1. Investigating Your Own Teaching:�Ecology Faculty as Research Practitioners

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 10. International Polar Year: Research and�Educational Opportunities in Antarctica for Minorities (IPY-ROAM)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 8. Pedagogical Frameworks for Teaching Inquiry in Middle and High School Classrooms: Lessons from GK12

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: OOS 6. Integrating Modern Instrumentation Into Undergraduate Ecology Education: Case Studies and Strategies

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: SYMP 4. Ecology education and outreach programs at North American Field Stations: Natural resource islands to improve ecological literacy and outdoor learning experiences for a K-20+ urbanized society

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 28. Extending Your Research into Policy and Adult Education: Two for the Price of One

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 29. How to Write a Scientific Publication

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 27. Writing a 'teaching philosophy' statement: models and suggestions

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: OOS 9. Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon successful strategies and defining the research agenda

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 16. How to Get and Keep a Job at a Small College

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 13. Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 17. Linking Research and Education in and beyond Our National Parks

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 14. NSF Undergraduate Education Session

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 15. Projects Linking Science Research and the Community - Examples and Ideas

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: WK 30. Encyclopedia of Earth: A New Publishing Model for Outreach by Ecologists

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: SYMP 12. Ecological Literacy for All

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: OOS 14. Ecological Education Furthering Environmental Justice

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: OOS 17. Training Biology Teachers in Ecological Research

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 21. "No Child Left Indoors": An Action Plan for Future Involvement by ESA Members

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: SS 20. Phenology as a Tool to Enhance Ecological Understanding through Integration of Research and Education

Thursday, August 7, 2008

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: SYMP 18.. Citizen Science in Ecology: the Intersection of Research and Education

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: SYMP 20. Using Urban Ecological Research as a Tool for Enhancing Ecological Literacy

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 34. Learn how to publish in EcoEd DL, ESA's digital teaching library

11:30 AM-1:15 PM: WK 32. Promoting Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies Using a Citizen Science Approach

Friday, August 8, 2008

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: SYMP 24. Research and education about ecosystem functioning: Linking perspectives from ecology, social sciences, and the humanities

8:00 AM-11:30 AM: OOS 23. Mentoring Future Ecologists at Small Liberal Arts Colleges Through Research

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.