[seek-taxon] [Fwd: Re: [seek] Draft Agenda for SEEK May 2006 Workshop]

[Aimee Stewart]

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Subject: 	Re: [seek] Draft Agenda for SEEK May 2006 Workshop
Date: 	Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:51:06 -0600
From: 	Samantha Romanello <sroman at LTERnet.edu>
To: 	seek at ecoinformatics.org
References: 	<42E94809.7010604 at LTERnet.edu> <42EFD7D3.5080305 at LTERnet.edu>



Ok so here is the agenda
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Samantha Romanello wrote:

>Hi All
>A second  Early Career Faculty and Post-doctoral Workshop has been 
>suggested for either May 15-19 or May 22-26, 2006.  This 5 day workshop 
>is specifically geared for systematists.  Attached is a draft agenda.  
>As this is a SEEK wide education effort comments and feedback from 
>everyone are essential and welcome!!
>many thanks
>samantha
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>>Subject:     Beach 7-28 edits to draft SEEK May 2006 Workshop Agenda
>>Date:     Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:30:37 -0500
>>From:     Beach, James H <beach at ku.edu>
>>To:     Samantha Romanello <sroman at lternet.edu>
>>CC:     Vieglais, David A <vieglais at ku.edu>, Peterson, Andrew Townsend 
>><town at ku.edu>, Stewart, Aimee Marian <astewart at ku.edu>
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>>Sam --
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>>Here are my quick edits to revise the draft May 2006 SEEK Workshop 
>>agenda based on my discussion with Dave Vieglais and Aimee Stewart 
>>yesterday.  Town was unavailable.  My changes are all meant to be 
>>suggestions and I expect there to be additional input and changes from 
>>others.
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>>I tried to be mindful of a couple of things based on my experience 
>>with workshops, briefly:
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>>1) Participants loathe being hostage to endless droning when promised 
>>an interactive workshop while sitting in a lab. So I have favored 
>>numerous small interactive tutorial sessions interspersed among the 
>>speeches.  These will require additional planning and cleverness to 
>>script exercises that are meaningful, i.e. that demonstrate important 
>>points, and which are decidedly not there *just* to expose 
>>participants to more software applications--that is also a real turn-off.
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>>2) With the amount of material and complexity we are dealing with in 
>>five days, I strongly feel that a recursive approach to presentation 
>>of the major pieces is worthwhile.  We revisit tools and approaches 
>>twice if possible, by incrementally introducing topics with simple 
>>demos, leading to more complex hands-on examples, and deeper 
>>discussion after the tutorials, etc.  Strictly linear presentation 
>>will cause people to drop out at various stages.
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>>3) Hands-on tutorials and exercises ALWAYS take MUCH more time that 
>>you would expect based on the best planning.  We should be very 
>>careful not to try to squeeze too much into the hands-on sessions, and 
>>be prepared to drop stuff out if we get squeezed for time.  It is very 
>>hard not to over schedule these periods.
>>
>>Please distribute as you wish!
>>
>>Jim
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>>_____________________________
>>James H. Beach
>>Biodiversity Research Center
>>University of Kansas
>>1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
>>Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
>>T 785 864-4645, F 785 864-5335
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Samantha J Romanello, Ph. D.
SEEK Education and Outreach
UNM Biology Department
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

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