[ECOLOG-L] Can someone recommend me active list servers for faculty members where educational issues are discussed openly? Thank you. Jorge

Can someone recommend me active list servers for faculty members where educational issues are discussed openly? Thank you. Jorge -- Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD blaypublishers.com http://blayjorge.wordpress.com/ http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/santiagoblay.html

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Can someone recommend me active list servers for faculty members where educational issues are discussed openly? Thank you. Jorge

The Tomorrow's Professor's Mailing list is a one-way list (i.e., they send out a news letter) that talks about education ideas: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/links.html The linked page has the email list near the top and the rest of the page is filled with other resources. I joined

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Can someone recommend me active list servers for faculty members where educational issues are discussed openly? Thank you. Jorge

Jorge and Others... A recommendation I make yearlynot a listserv, but a newsletter and it is excellent from Rick Reis, Ph.D. and the Ed folks at Stanford U. You can't post to it, but weekly topics are usually right on target in keeping up with educational questions and comments I see on

[ECOLOG-L] AQUATIC SCIENCE LEAD TECHNICIAN I

JOSEPH W. JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER ICHAUWAY, INC. AQUATIC SCIENCE LEAD TECHNICIAN I The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center invites applications for the Aquatic Science Lead Technician I position. The employee will contribute to the aquatic research program of a staff

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Can someone recommend me active list servers for faculty members where educational issues are discussed openly? Thank you. Jorge

Jorge and others, I have found Twitter to be helpful in this regard. Here is a link to several popular educational hashtags http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html Some hashtags have live discussion times. This is also extremely helpful. Unfortunately, most other educational listservs I

[ECOLOG-L] Travel grants to Rocky Mtn Bio Lab for the summer of 2014

RMBL is offering a limited number of small travel grants for scientists who would like to explore joining RMBL's summer research and education community. Priority will be given to individuals finishing their PhD, postdocs, and assistant professors. If you are interested, please send me a

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[ECOLOG-L] http://www.climatedialogue.org/

calling attention to this.. http://www.climatedialogue.org/ -- Malcolm L. McCallum, PHD, REP Department of Environmental Studies University of Illinois at Springfield Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology “Nothing is more priceless and worthy of preservation than the rich

[ECOLOG-L] Loss of field-based courses

I'm posting this for a colleague who wanted to remain anonymous but would be interested in your comments. We've suffered the same loss of field-based courses at the University of Maryland, but I think for other reasons. David Inouye My ecology/evolution/plant diversity students are always

[ECOLOG-L] 2 Summer Research Assistantships in Forest Ecology/Silviculture

The Department of Forest Management at the University of Montana is looking to fill two full-time summer positions to collect field data for a long-term study on the effects of forest overstory and understory treatments on vegetation composition and structure, as well as on seedling/sapling