Over a couple of rooms I found the PKAL gang enjoing some good munchies. Ed O'Connell and Nick Trurro catching up on each others lives...
| After eating breakfast at the hotel we boarded the bus and headed back out to the Academy. We were split into small groups and cycled through a series of break-out sessions illustrating specific examples of Web-Based learning. Here is Professor Nick Turro of Columbia explaining his integrated approach to teaching chemistry using web resources. |
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| Gregor Novak and Evelyn Patterson presented a session on Just In Time Teaching physics at the Academy |
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| Being PKALtypes...somebody said (now who might that be??) "Lets See JiTT in Action" Give us an example of your in-class problem solving sessions. So...off to the board we went to figure out an energy problem about getting from Colorado Springs to the top of Pike's Peak..... |
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| Professor Frank Wattenburg gave a seminar on Learning with Online Materials. Alas, my picture from this talk came out horrible. | |
| Between morning sessions we had a short Break...we practiced our "in flight refueling" and gobbled up some cookies, sodas, and fruit. |
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| Even better from a culinary point of view was our box lunch on saturday. Here a bunch of the Workshop Leaders and Jeanne Narum, PKAL Project Director, discuss how the workshop is going. |
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| Lunch also gave us a chance to consider the rapidly deteriorating weather conditions...seems a little mini-blizzard was brewing outside... fortunately it amounted to not much more than a dusting of snow and some more howling wind. Here is a look out the main windows towards the USAFA Chapel. That is an F-4 phantom in the bottom left and a F-15 Eagle up top left. |
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| In the early evening we wandered back to the Officers club for a reception and dinner. I headed down the hall towards where we ate on Friday night...into a reception dinner for the 101st Airborne...it became obvious quite quickly I had made a wrong turn.... Over a couple of rooms I found the PKAL gang enjoing some good munchies. Ed O'Connell and Nick Trurro catching up on each others lives... |
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| Saturday came to a close with a session on building and room design for the new pedagogies presented by architects Elizabeth Ericson and Scott Kelsey. |
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| Sunday morning came and went quickly as the final sessions focused on the development of group action plans and other issues of implementation. I had an early plane to catch so did not get any pictures....except this nice view of the front range from the airport. |
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| As if saying goodbye in a impressive aeronautical way...Ed and I where treated with a spectacular sunset between cloud layers as we flew up the east coast. (what I didn't mention is the wild bumpy ride we had going from Colorado Springs to Atlanta...good thing metal wings bend!!) |
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