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are thinking of a session featuring work of the urban and economic geography
working group.Posted by Ken Foote on July 04, 1998 at 19:25:56:
Virtual Department Participants:
We've just finished this summer's second workshop and I thought it might be good to look ahead to organizing paper and poster sessions as well as a special symposia that is being planned for the 1999 AAG meetings in Honolulu.
FIRST, I would like to suggest that we use the Virtual Department Web Forum discussion board at
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/workshops/1997/discussion/wwwboard.html
as well as e-mail to begin to plan sessions. The deadline for organizing
paper sessions is 4 September 1998. The deadline for organizing poster sessions
is 1 October 1998. So far:
1) Karen Lemke (klemke@uwsp.edu) and Mike Ritter (mritter@uwsp.edu) have expressed interest in organizing a paper session on evaluation of Web-based instructional materials.
2) Daniel Karnes (daniel.karnes@dartmouth.edu) is willing to organize a poster session on Web-based projects.
3) Les Doak (ldoak@fullerton.edu) is willing to help organize a paper session on GIS education.
4)
Siyoung Park (mfsp@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) and Jim Hathaway ()
are thinking of a session featuring work of the urban and economic geography
working group.
5) I will be organizing a panel discussion on international issues in learning and teaching geography in higher education.
SECOND, the first business meeting of our new Web Specialty Group will be held during the Honolulu meetings. The petition we forwarded to the AAG will means that the group will be listed on this year's registration form. Please sign up when you register. We need to reach at least 100 members within two years.
THIRD, I have been working with Mick Healey (Britain) and Iain Hay (Australia) to organize a special one-day international symposium for the Honolulu meetings on "Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education." An announcement for the symposium can be found below and at: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/workshops/1998/test/healey/intersym/intersym.html
If you are interested in participating, please contact Mick Healey (mhealey@chelt.ac.uk) directly.
I will be away from Austin for the next couple of weeks and won't have regular access to e-mail. However, I will be back in Austin by the third week of July to help organize paper sessions.
Yours, Ken
P.S. Here is the invitation from Mick Healey:
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON 'LEARNING AND TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION,' HONOLULU, 23 MARCH 1999
In collaboration with colleagues in the States (Ken Foote) and Australia (Iain Hay) I am organising an invited symposium prior to the main sessions at AAG99 in Honolulu and some associated mainline sessions in the conference (24-27 March) itself.
The invited symposium, which is sponsored by the AAG, IAG and RGS-IBG, is to be held on Tuesday 23 March 1999. The aim of the symposium is to examine national practices and programmes concerned with a variety of learning and teaching topics and focus on how we can make them more effectively international. Topics might include:
1) Conceptual issues in communicating/collaborating internationally in geography in HE
2) Internationalising geography curricula and pedagogy
3) International fieldcourses
4) Virtual fieldcourses - making them international
5) Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in internationalising learning and teaching
6) Developing geographer's skills for employability and life: International comparions
7) Educational development for HE staff/faculty/TAs: international comparisons
8) International exchanges for geography students and staff
9) Internationalising the JGHE
10)
Internationalising national Professional Associations/Institutions HE Groups
(e.g. RGS-IBG HESG, AAG Educational Speciality Group; proposed IAG HE Group)
11)
Internationalising the Geography Discipline Network Guides and abstracts
on Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Geography in HE
12) Internationalising the Virtual Geography Department
You are welcome to suggest other possible topics.
It is planned for brief details on the nature of the topics to be put on the WWW prior to the workshop and for position papers on the issues to be pre-circulated. Attempts will be made to pair people from different countries interested in the same issue so that they can prepare joint papers outlining the position in their own countries and discussing how the activity can be made more effectively international. Discussions will aim to identify actions needed to take the most promising ideas forward.
If you are interested in the possibility of participating in the international symposium please contact Mick Healey (mhealey@chelt.ac.uk) by return with brief details of what you would like to contribute (no more than 2-3 sentences at this stage please). A limited number of places are available so that as many countries as possible are represented.
If you are interested in contributing a paper to one of
the main sessions please contact Ken Foote by email (k.foote@mail.utexas.edu)
urgently as he has to complete the programme by mid-August. Delegates will
need to register with the AAG by 4 September 1998 (see May 1998 AAG Newsletter
for details or view http://www.aag.org or email gaia@aag.org). Participation
in the pre-AAG symposium does NOT prevent
you giving a paper in the main conference.
It is planned to submit an edited collection of suitable papers arising from the workshop and the main sessions to the JGHE.
The cost of getting from the UK to Hawaii is not as high as you may think! I've been quoted a return flight from London to Honolulu via Los Angeles for 473 pounds up to 19 March and 595 after 19 March on United Airlines, as long as includes a Saturday night in the States. Tax (c60 pound) is probably additional.
Professor Mick Healey
Project Director Geography Discipline Network
Department of Geography and Geology
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Francis Close Hall
Swindon Road
Cheltenham GL50 4AZ UK
Tel: +44 (0)1242 543364 (532971 Department Office)
Fax: +44 (0)1242 532997
Email: mhealey@chelt.ac.uk
http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn