Tomorrow, I'm presenting at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society conference at Holy Cross in Worcester. I've spent a good bit of time over the past few days putting together a presentation that includes two hands-on activities and an overview of the projects I used for the BIOL597B class. I should probably add one more slide to talk about Free Software.
I'm not sure quite how long it will take me to get through the presentation. I have an hour and fifteen minutes. My goal is for the introduction to last 5-10 minutes, the first activity 15 minutes, the overview for 20-25 minutes, and the second activity roughly 15 minutes. That should give me 10-15 minutes for questions plus a little slop. I could easily spend an hour on any of the parts.
It was fun to go back and look at all the work my students did last semester. They posted more than 1300 images. And great stuff! Some of them I had missed when they went by the first time. The on-line format has some advantages -- some students might otherwise not be able to participate -- but I'm always struck by how unsatisfying I feel afterward about the relationship I had with the students. I don't feel like I really get to know people, like I can in a face-to-face class.
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