Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 5 - Education: Community- and Technology-Based Education
1:30 PMFreeing ecologists to personally develop spatially explicit models
James Westervelt, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL-CNN)
1:50 PMEco-orgo: Organismal biology as a catalyst for education and research in the ecological sciences
Rachel Muir, U.S. Geological Survey
2:10 PMThe use of news media in scientific teaching
Malin J. Hansen, University of Regina
2:30 PMThe politics of green: Civically engaging undergraduate students
Denise Mitten, Ferris State University, Scott M Herron, Ferris State University
2:50 PMPlant Stalkers: A tiered citizen science program that promotes science literacy and environmental stewardship
Julie A. Reynolds, Duke University, David Shiffman, College of Charleston, Andrea Novicki, Duke University
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMSupporting education about environmental sustainability: Evaluation of a progressive learning route for qualitative reasoning models
Tim Nuttle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
3:40 PMEcosystem services and collaborative Wikis in the undergraduate classroom
Tom Purucker, Gainesville State College
4:00 PMIncorporating ecology and ecosystems as a major organizing theme in non-majors biology
Colleen Hatfield, California State University, Chico, Margaret Owens, California State University, Chico
4:20 PMEvolutionary Evidence: Assessing a virtual lab that explores the evidence for evolution
Joel Abraham, SimBiotic Software, Jon Herron, University of Washington, Eli Meir, SimBiotic Software, Susan Maruca, SimBiotic Software, Derek Stal, SimBiotic Software, Jennifer Wallner, SimBiotic Software
4:40 PMBeyond the teaching assistantship: Graduate and postdoctoral student professional development in teaching and learning
Janet Batzli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sarah Miller, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Michelle Harris, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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