[Geochemwksp] Teaching Petrology and Geochemistry Workshops--Please Contribute to Collections

[Mogk, David]

Hi Folks, I hope you're all having a great winter term.  This is my
semi-annual request to ask you to please contribute your best
instructional activities and related resources to the  Mineralogy,
Petrology and Geochemistry collections at these websites:

 

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/index.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology/index.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geochemistry/index.html

 

Each of these sites has a link to our "Contribute" tool, and we are
actively seeking 

 

*        additional instructional activities (i.e. problem sets, lab
activities-things that you would hand out to your students to do); 

*        other web resources (e.g. URLs of sites that you use to support
your instruction, PowerPoints, images and visualizations, etc); and 

*        articles that you find particularly effective in teaching these
topics.  

 

We would also encourage you to submit your course syllabus in these
topics, using the Goals and Syllabus tool:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/syllabus.html

We ask for some contextual information about your course, then you can
simply upload the file with your syllabus and any related information
about your course.  Participants at all three of the workshops
(mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry) asked for this type of service
so that we could all compare our own courses to those of our colleagues,
and hopefully mine a few new good ideas about how to structure our
courses.  I just submitted my own mineralogy syllabus, and it took only
about 15 minutes to complete the form.  

 

Don't forget about the analytical instrument registry:

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology/instruments.html

If you have a geochemical instrument (e.g. Xray, SEM, microprobe, etc.)
that you would like to make available for external collaborations with
students and faculty, please register your instrument via this web
service. If you are in  need of analytical instrumentation to support
either your own research or research by your students, please check out
the instruments that are already listed.  And, if you use this service,
please drop us a note and let us know how well this is working for you.

 

This is pretty much a last call for you to contribute.  I have staff
available from now until about June to work on these collections. After
that, my current round of funding for Cutting Edge workshops and
collections will expire. So, if you value these collections now is the
time to submit your contributions so that we have time to update the
collections and get all the new material cataloged and posted.
Submitting these contributions does not require a lot of effort (mostly
uploading files), and if everyone on this list  submits just one or a
few items we will have developed a tremendous community resource.
Thanks again to all the contributors past and future.

Best wishes to all, and Rock On!

Dave Mogk

 

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