The Envirotech meeting at the ASEH conference in Boise will be a ninety-minute lunch meeting rather than a breakfast meeting. (The conference organizers wanted groups to have time for more substantial discussion than usual.) So the plan is to have a topic, maybe even a specific set of questions, ready for people to discuss over lunch.
But what topic? In the program, we indicate that the discussion would be on issues associated with using an “envirotech” approach to teaching and research. So we now have to narrow that topic to a more specific discussion question—and we welcome ideas. Please add a comment or suggestion below as to what you think might be useful/possible to discuss over lunch. A main goal, of course, is to facilitate conversation/discussion at the lunch meeting.
This request is, in part, a test of this website’s ability to receive comments on various news items, so please try adding a comment. And if you are planning to attend, don’t forget to register for the conference and to sign up for the Envirotech lunch on the registration form. (The early registration deadline is Feb. 15.) We’re looking forward to seeing you in Boise.
Hugh Gorman and Ann Greene
4 responses so far ↓
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Dolly Jørgensen
// Feb 4, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I would like to find out what types of field trips (if any) people have used with students to engage them in envirotech issues. Where did you go? Did you do reading along with it? How did you integrate it into your course?
I would also like us to think about “Envirotech-sponsored” sessions for future conferences. This is particularly relevant for SHOT conferences where SIG sponsorship carries some weight in getting a panel accepted. What topics might be of interest for the group as a whole? Maybe we can do some topic brainstorming, make a list, and then use the website to vote on them (or something like that).
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Finn Arne Jørgensen
// Feb 4, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Both of these suggestions are great ideas. Another idea might be a discussion of how to “sell” envirotech courses to our academic home institutions (at least for those of us who aren’t free to design courses without approval and funding from the university) as well as to prospective students.
I also hope the lunch meetings will be a permanent thing - I always thought the breakfast meetings were too short.
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Hugh G.
// Feb 4, 2008 at 2:29 pm
On a side note, I’d like to hear a discussion of the issue that the ASEH is polling its members on: should the ASEH be held every two years to reduce its/our carbon footprint? (The poll is in on the ASEH website.)
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Ann G
// Feb 6, 2008 at 7:58 am
What does an envirotech curriculum look like beyond the introductory level?