Education/Telecon 2012-03-15

Participants: Becky, Erin, Jesse, Margaret, Bob, Donna

• NSTA – Materials to Indy
  • Margaret needs materials soon, or needs them mailed there.
  • Luanne will be there, says QR code scanning is popular so teachers don't need to tote along lots of materials.

• Summer Meeting Session Proposals
  • Call for session proposals – anyone can propose one.
  • Education generally does Teacher Workshops

• Teacher Workshops
  • Agenda not set yet – when does Plenary start? Wednesday morning. Idea is to have teacher workshops all day Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.
  • Call it a pre-conference session if we do it before the Plenary?
  • We might want to make sure that the teachers can go to the Plenary – it helps them feel like part of the larger group, and sometimes is really valuable.
  • Studies Group will have small teacher workshop group at summer session.
  • My NASA data workshops will take all afternoon – take place of 4 sessions. Will that fragment our participants? Couple of workshops or meetings, making lesson plans and applets.
    • Maybe instead of one 3-hour session, make two 1.5 hour sessions, so that you can choose 2 more 45 minute sessions from the rest of the workshops.
  • 4 ESiP presenters needed for workshops.
    • One can be technology tools, perhaps

• Using Online Tools at summer meeting
  • One at winter meeting was well received. Should it be part of the teacher workshop? Separate one for the entire group, after the teachers are gone? (After workshops.)
  • Perhaps do it 2x? Once targeted for teachers, once targeted for ESiP members?
  • Teachers are funded for entire meeting, so lets do it after and encourage them to stick around and mingle with the larger ESiP community.