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Note:
The date for Sam Ham's online lecture has changed to November
23rd. |
| Tuesday,
September 14 |
Charles
"Corky" Mayo, Program Manager, Interpretation
& Education, NPS (In-class presentation only)
David
Larsen, Training Manager, Stephen T. Mather
Training Center, NPS
(Tuesday
evening presentation)
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| Tuesday,
September 21 |
Cherry
Payne, Chief of Interpretation & Visitor
Services, Everglades National Park |
| Tuesday,
September 28 |
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| Tuesday,
October 5 |
Tim
Merriman, Executive Director, National Association
for Interpretation (NAI) |
| Tuesday,
October 19 |
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| Tuesday,
October 26 |
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| Tuesday,
November 2 |
Bill
Gwaltney, Assistant Regional Director for Workforce
Enhancement, Intermountain Region, NPS |
| Tuesday,
November 9 |
Matt
Graves, Supervisory Interpretive Ranger, Glacier
National Park |
Tuesday,
November 23 |
Sam
Ham, Professor, University of Idaho |
| Keynote
Lecture
Tuesday,
November 30 |
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Online
lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. Central time. Lectures are free
and open to the public. Registration is required. |
TO REGISTER: Send an email to Mary Ramos
(mramos@sfasu.edu)
with the following subject line: "MSRI Online Lecture
Series Registration." Include your name, job title,
organization and a brief description of your interpretive
duties in the text of the email. The email must be received
by noon on the date of the lecture. Once you register, you
may attend all remaining lectures in the fall 2004 series.
Lecture attendance is governed by a code of conduct to which
all participants must subscribe. Details regarding the online
lecture format and code of conduct are available on the
lecture series homepage. Instructions regarding how to access
the homepage will be sent to you upon registration.
PREPARATION
FOR THE MSRI ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
IN RESOURCE INTERPRETATION
Please
thoroughly review the three sections below before attending
the
MSRI Online Lecture Series in Resource Interpretation:
Online Lecture Format, Code of Conduct, and Browser Settings
Online Lecture Format
Each
"lecture" in SFA's Online Lecture Series in Resource
Interpretation will be facilitated by a Student Moderator.
The Moderator will be assisted by eight (8) or nine (9)
Student Fishbowl Participants.
Lectures
will be divided into 4 parts:
I.
Introductory Comments. The Guest Speaker
and Moderator conduct a brief exchange to provide background
information regarding the speaker and the speaker's approach
to the topic. The Moderator uses this time to ask the speaker
questions. The discussion participation is limited to the
Guest Speaker and the Moderator.
II. Fishbowl Discussion. Next, the Guest
Speaker, the Moderator and the Student Fishbowl Participants
engage in a lively discussion on the topic of the lecture.
Because of the potential size of the virtual audience, it
is necessary to use the “fishbowl” technique
of selecting a few participants to begin the discussion
and represent the whole audience while the majority of the
audience looks on. Fishbowl participants may ask the Guest
Speaker questions. The Guest Speaker may pose questions
to the Fishbowl group. One or more threads of conversation
may emerge as fishbowl participants explore and respond
synchronously to the comments posted by others. Everyone
attending the lecture who is not authorized to participate
in the fishbowl discussion must refrain from posting any
comments during this portion of the lecture.
III. Q & A Session. In this part of
the discussion, members of the audience at large may ask
a question related to the topic. Because it is not feasible
for the Guest Speaker to handle a barrage of questions all
at once, the question and answer portion of the lecture
will be managed as follows:
1.
All questions go to the whole Fishbowl group, not just the
Guest Speaker. This increases the amount of interaction
during the lecture and eases the pressure on the Guest Speaker
to "type fast."
2.
An attendee who wishes to ask a question must first "private
message" the Moderator by highlighting the Moderator's
name in the Users Logged On window, typing the question
they wish to pose or simply typing a question mark in the
message window, and then hitting the enter button on their
keyboard.
3.
Then they must WAIT for the Moderator to respond privately
to them indicating where they are in line in the question
sequence (i.e., "You are after Jim Anderson" or
"You are after Jennifer Kline").
4.
When you are "next in line" pay careful attention
to the Guest Speaker...it is the Guest Speaker who will
signal for a new question to be posed.
There
will not be time for everyone who wishes to ask a question.
We apologize in advance for this!
IV. Discussion Board. By using WebCT's
discussion board feature, the discussion may continue after
the session has ended. Lecture attendees, or anyone registered
for the lecture series, even if they missed the session,
can submit their comments and reactions to the series discussion
board. Complete transcripts of the Tuesday evening lectures
will be posted to the discussion board. We hope the discussion
that emerges during the lecture itself becomes just the
tip of the iceberg. Benefits to participants will increase
dramatically if the discussion extends beyond a single evening
to encompass a week's worth of exchanges.
Finally, Guest Speaker contact information is listed on
the speaker profile pages (click on speaker
names above to access profile information).
Code of Conduct
Netiquette
that governs the Internet includes the following ground
rules:
1. In general, messages should be short and to the point.
2. If you make a comment on content posted by others, include
identifying elements of that previous content in your remarks.
In this way, the "flow" of the discussion on a
specific topic is easily identifiable.
3. Use all capital letters sparingly. Capitalizing whole
words is analogous to SHOUTING.
4. Be professional and courteous in what you say about others
or about their ideas.
5.
When reacting to someone else's message, address the ideas,
not the person.
6. Be careful when using humor. Without face-to-face communications
your joke may be viewed as criticism.
7. Be respectful of diverse opinions. Remember that the
Internet brings people together from remote locations. Don't
assume that everyone shares the same views or background.
8. Do not submit comments out of turn. Follow the lecture
format outlined above to ensure the enjoyment of all attendees.
9.
When posting to the series discussion board, make the subject
line for your posting as specific as possible. This will
ensure that others can quickly grasp the topic of your submission.
Also, use the "reply to" feature when you respond
to a posting submitted by someone else. This facilitates
the emergence of "threaded" discussions.
NOTE: Inappropriate conduct will result
in immediate dismissal from the chat room. Session leaders
reserve the right to deny access to any party at any time.
Browser
Settings
WebCT,
the distance education software used at Stephen F. Austin
State University, operates on an internet-based system.
Therefore, webCT features such as chat rooms and discussion
boards are accessible through internet browsers such as
Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. If your browser
is configured incorrectly, you may not be able to access
the chat room that serves as our online "lecture hall."
If
you have trouble entering the webCT chat room, you may need
to reset your browser by:
- Enabling
JAVA,
- Setting
browser cache to reload each visit,
- Turning
off anonymous logon,
- Enabling
cookies, and
- Disabling
pop-up killers.
To ensure
that your browser settings are correct for using WebCT,
please select your browser below.
Current browser configurations can be found on the WebCT
Browser Tune-Up page.
Special
thanks to SFA's Office of Instructional Technological
for their financial support of the Fall 2004 Online Lecture
Series in Resource Interpretation.
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