Summer-Fall 2008

date	event	lead by	materials
Oct 2	One day UBC Learning Conference	many	stay tuned ...
Sep29-Oct 3	UBC's Celebrate Learning Week	seminars / presentations, etc.	stay tuned ...
July 16	Learning goals workshop for the Goldschmidt conference	EOS STLFs, & others	see Faculty Resources.
June 20	Learning Goals Workshop	EOS STLFs and others	see Faculty Resources.
June 10	Improving students' science article reading skills.	Kai Chan, Douw Chan	contact <fjones@eos.ubc.ca>.

See also the CWSEI Calendar for campus-wide events.

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Past events at EOS-SEI

Winter 2008

• May 16 Interview seminar: "An application of improved teaching techniques to a research presentation: 'The use of larval bivalve shell composition as tags of natal habitat for connectivity studies'", Dr. Carly Strasser (abstract).
• May 09 Interview seminar: "Engaged Learning for Large Classes: Tomorrow’s Teaching Techniques, Today", Erin Lane, (abstract).
• Apr 30 Interview seminar: " Innovative Ways to Document and Improve Science Teaching and Learning", Molly Phipps (abstract).
• April 28: End of Year CWSEI event.
• Apr 24 Interview seminar: "Wake Up and Learn! - Ideas, activities, and experiments on engaging your audience", Dr. Stephen Taylor (abstract)
• April 2: End Of Term Surveys; Francis Jones
• Mar 25: SAESS (attitudes survey); Ben Kennedy .
• Feb 28: Review clicker questions; Sara Harris .
• Jan 25: Learning Goals Workshop; All eos STLFs (with C. Wieman) on the "Resources" page

Fall 2007

• Nov 22, EOS-East 134: "Critical Incident Questionnaires, and other happenings in ENVR 200". Link to the CIQ, or "critical incident questionnaires", questions: http://www.unf.edu/dept/cirt/teaching/pdfs/formative_sb.pdf.
• Nov 6: Half-time report on an EOSC proto-course transformation - the score is tied.
• Oct 16: Using online bulletin boards to encourage learning
• Oct 4: Multiplechoice Questions.

Summer 2007 was quite - many people are in the field, or working out of town (or even on vacation ! ).

Winter 2007

• May 31/07: Interview seminar: " Exemplary Teaching in the Geosciences: A Road Warrior's Perspective ", Brett Gilley
• May 30/07: Interview seminar: " Teaching Ideas from Listening to Students, Teaching Assistants and Teachers ", Ben Kennedy
• May 22/07: Interview seminar: " Learning Specialized Subjects In Highly Diversified Classes ", Francis Jones.
• May 10/07: Interview seminar: "How do we measure the effectiveness of oceanography courses?", Cynthia Cudaback
• April 25/07, Departmental seminar (Re: Tracking students field work using GPS, Erik Riggs, Purdue U.)
• April 24/07, Departmental seminar (Re: Curriculum design, Erik Riggs, Purdue U.)
• March 30/07, Learning Goals Workshop, Part II (Carl Wieman)
• March 22/07, Learning Goals Workshop, Part I (Carl Wieman)
• March 09/07, Brown-bag discussion: Clickers (Sara Harris)
• Feb 28/07, Departmental seminar, “Transforming Geoscience Class using wireless technologies”, Perry Samson (U. Michigan)