[iris-bulk] SSA: Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Seismology Courses

[IRIS]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the session on "Best Practices  
for Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Seismology Courses" at the  
upcoming April 2008 SSA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe (http:// 
www.seismosoc.org/meetings/2008/specialsessions.html ).

The session provides the opportunity to share innovative teaching  
strategies and successful seismology lab exercises.

The abstract deadline is January 11.  Please contact me or Michael  
Wysession if you have any questions.

Regards,

John Taber


Best Practices for Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Seismology  
Courses

Individuals within the academic seismology community possess a wealth  
of experience and knowledge of approaches to engage undergraduate and  
graduate students enrolled in courses with seismology concepts.   
Unfortunately, no central venue exists to allow these individuals to  
broadly share their own effective labs and exercises with their  
colleagues or seek new ideas to compliment their own courses.  Thus,  
this session invites participants to present strategies for actively  
engaging students in the classroom with examples of effective and  
innovative lab and field experiences. Contributors will be encouraged  
to submit their classroom, lab and field exercises to an on-line  
collection such as the Science Education Resource Center database  
which includes exercises submitted to the 2007 Cutting Edge workshop,  
"Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century." Submissions are welcome  
for any level of seismology instruction from introductory  
undergraduate Earth science courses to graduate-level seminars, and  
activities that make use of seismic data are especially encouraged.

Conveners:

Michael Wysession
Washington University
mwysession at wustl.edu

John Taber
IRIS Consortium
taber at iris.edu