Although Web-based courses are becoming increasingly common, the Internet is still a new teaching medium and is unfamiliar to most instructors. This workshop is designed to familiarize geoscience faculty who have an interest in Web education with successful strategies, methods, and design principles. It will be rooted in educational research and sound pedagogical principles, but will be presented in plain language and aimed at earth science courses. The format will focus on hands-on exploration, critique, and discussion of existing Web courses. No familiarity with html or Java is required.
Registration is required.
Barbara Manner . Participants will participate in earth science activities to emphasize the development of the process skills of elementary students. The process skills emphasized will be observing, hypothesizing, planning, interpreting, and communicating with specific activities that can be done in the class. Intended for K-6 teachers. Topics will include causes of earthquakes, plate tectonics, propagation of seismic waves, statistics and data, Earth structure and hazards.