Please see call-out message below from my friend and collaborator, Steve Maanum, a retired secondary school teacher and 30+ yr photographer who has spent the past 5 years getting kids in touch with nature through classroom nature photography workshops he's developed with Joe Courneya, a University of Minnesota Extension Educator & assistant professor with the American Indian Youth 4-H Program. Steve and Joe will be at the ESA meeting in Albuquerque in Aug, presenting (with me, and others) in the special session, "Photography for Conservation: Exploring How Visual Tools Improve Ecological Research, Literacy, and Sustainability."
(For more info about, or to share particular issues you'd like addressed in the special session, please contact me at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.) Thanks- Molly ................................................ "TEACHING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF A CAMERA We are spearheading what we hope will become a nation-wide movement to integrate nature photography into the curriculum - no matter what subject area or grade level. We know we are not the first to use photography as a teaching tool and hopefully we won't be the last. Our approach has been to think globally, but act locally. Components of our project include: -combining formal education (classroom lessons) with non-formal education (4-H lessons) -involving one or more partnerships with community groups -enlisting professional photographers and wildlife experts as mentors -linking all activities to Education Standards and 4-H life skills Please contact us if you are currently involved in a project to connect kids to nature through photography, or if you have a desire to become part of this movement to teach kids about their environment through the lens of a camera. -Steve Maanum, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -Joe Courneya, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" ................................................ Molly Steinwald, MS PhD Candidate, Dept of Zoology Assistant Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami University Oxford, OH [email protected] www.mollysteinwald.com<http://www.mollysteinwald.com/> "The volume of education continues to increase, yet so do pollution, exhaustion of resources, and the dangers of ecological catastrophe. If still more education is to save us, it would have to be education of a different kind: an education that takes us into the depth of things." ~E.F. Schumacher
