Education Directors Meeting
| November 29, 2007 |
Sheraton, Boston, MA
7:30 am MRSEC Education Directors Breakfast and Business Meeting (Beacon A)
8:00 Breakfast and Registration for All Registered Attendees (Clarendon Room)
Morning Session: Getting Updated Morning Session: Getting Updated (Fairfax Room)
8:30 Welcome and Meeting Goals (Robert de Groot – Caltech and Greta Zenner – University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8:45 Update from NSF (Tom Rieker – NSF)
9:15 The Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net) – Approaches to Informal Education and Evaluation) (Andrea Durham, Carol Lynn Alpert, and Tim Miller – Museum of Science, Boston, Karen Pollard – Science Museum of Minnesota, and Barry Kluger-Bell – Exploratorium)
10:10 Break (Clarendon Room)
10:25 NISE Net Presentation (continued)
11:00 Adventures in Informal Education Evaluation (Christine Reich and Elizabeth Kollmann – Museum of Science, Boston)
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
Afternoon Session: Getting Connected (Fairfax Room)
1:30 Updates and Highlights from Center Education Programs (In Groups)
- What E/O/HR highlights are you most proud of from the past year?
- Do you have partnerships with informal education institutions? If so, what kind and how do they work?
- What approaches have you taken to assessments of your outreach/informal science ed (ISE) efforts? What has worked?
2:30 Report Out
3:00 Break (Clarendon Room)
3:15 Connecting Education and Outreach Professionals – (NSF) Research Center Educators Network (NRCEN) and Neo-Sphere (Jill Andrews – University of Michigan, Dan Steinberg and Shannon Swilley – Princeton University)
3:45 Developing Partnerships Between Informal Science Education Institutions and Science/Engineering Researchers (Eric Marshall – New York Hall of Science)
4:45 The Materials Digital Library Project (Laura M. Bartolo – Kent State University)
5:00 Wrap-up and Evaluation/Adjourn
