Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 5 - Education: Community- and Technology-Based Education
1:30 PMCOS 5-1Freeing ecologists to personally develop spatially explicit models
James Westervelt, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL-CNN)
1:50 PMCOS 5-2Eco-orgo: Organismal biology as a catalyst for education and research in the ecological sciences
Rachel Muir, U.S. Geological Survey
2:10 PMCOS 5-3The use of news media in scientific teaching
Malin J. Hansen, University of Regina
2:30 PMCOS 5-4The politics of green: Civically engaging undergraduate students
Denise Mitten, Ferris State University, Scott M Herron, Ferris State University
2:50 PMCOS 5-5Plant 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 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 5-6Supporting education about environmental sustainability: Evaluation of a progressive learning route for qualitative reasoning models
Tim Nuttle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
3:40 PMCOS 5-7Ecosystem services and collaborative Wikis in the undergraduate classroom
Tom Purucker, Gainesville State College
4:00 PMCOS 5-8Incorporating 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 PMCOS 5-9Evolutionary 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 PMCOS 5-10Beyond 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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