WK 13 - Welcome to the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning (CAMEL) Community [FREE but must register]

Sunday, August 5, 2012: 12:00 PM-5:00 PM
E142, Oregon Convention Center
Organizer:
Teresa L. Newberry, Tohono O'odham Community College
This interactive workshop is for educators who will be teaching about climate change issues either as a component of a course or a full course and for students who want to learn about climate change science and solutions. It introduces the NSF-funded Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning project. ”CAMEL" is a FREE, COMPREHENSIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY, MULTIMEDIA, ONLINE RESOURCE to help educators teach about CLIMATE CHANGE. CAMEL includes hundreds of articles, datasets, images, videos, syllabi, teaching modules, lab exercises, etc. We will teach faculty members and students how to use the CAMEL resource. We will demonstrate curricular resources of many types, featuring those with an indigenous perspective. Participants will log on to the site and practice finding and adding curricular resources. CAMEL has an extensive taxonomy reflecting the complexity of climate change. All topics related to causes, consequences, solutions and actions are included. Its web-based infrastructure includes tools to allow a growing community of educators and students to network, share and evaluate approaches and materials, and host courses at www.camelclimatechange.org CAMEL has been created by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and its Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD). NCSE works with many partners to develop and share content. For example, The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is helping to engage American Indian faculty and students at tribal colleges and universities and majority institutions and to incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and American Indian cultural perspectives into climate change education. Lunch will not be served, bring your own lunch! Bring a laptop computer so you can log on.

Registration Fee: $0

12:00 PM
 Welcome from Traditional Ecological Knowledge section of the ESA
Mimi E. Lam, University of British Columbia
12:30 PM
 Introduction to CAMEL
Lyle Birkey, National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
1:00 PM
 Overview of AIHEC-NCSE Climate Change Education Partnership
Al Kuslikis, American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
1:30 PM
 Climate Change, Water and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Southwest
Teresa L. Newberry, Tohono O'odham Community College; Octaviana V. Trujillo, Northern Arizona University
2:00 PM
 Climate Change and Energy from an American Indian Perspective
William Van Lopik, College of the Menominee Nation
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