[seek] Draft Agenda for SEEK May 2006 Workshop

[Laura L. Downey]

Jim,

I think this could be a great opportunity to do a bit of user profiling on
systematists.  We could do this through at least a short survey and perhaps
a feedback session.  Additionally, are we going to debut the concept
relating tool?  Again, would be a nice opportunity to get some early
feedback (but I don't know the development schedule or plans).  I don't see
anything specific to the CR tool in the agenda.  Even if we don't do the CR
tool, I think we should design some of the exercises with Kepler to get some
feedback in addition to running some discussion sessions after use of
Kepler.  We've done this with the ecologists and gotten some good data.

Whatever we decide, I'd like to be involved at some level in the planning of
the workshop to address user analysis and user feedback etc.

Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
505.277.3157 phone
505.277-2541 fax
ldowney at lternet.edu
 

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[mailto:seek-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Romanello
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:30 PM
To: seek at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: [seek] Draft Agenda for SEEK May 2006 Workshop

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

-------- Original Message --------

> 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>
>
>
>
> Sam --
>
> 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.
>
> I tried to be mindful of a couple of things based on my experience 
> with workshops, briefly:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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>


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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

505-277-2607 (office)
505-249-0474 (cell)
505 277-2541 (fax)

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