My erstwhile Center for Science Outreach Associate Director Dr. Glenn McCombs has been working with teachers, students, and scientists for years in a personal mission to connect all parties to their mutual benefit and advancement. He's an outdoorsman par excellence, a gifted teacher, and a really good guy. Listen to our chat as we touch on several ongoing programs--the
GAS (Girls and Science) summer camp, its corollary for boys, the
BEST (Boys Exploring Science and Technology) camp, and the
GK12 Program--and then listen up as he describes a couple of our new programs that we haven't featured yet on S4theB!, the RIP program and the RET program. Dontcha just love acronyms? These are research experiences programs, one for high school students and one for classroom teachers. I'm not even going to tell you what these are--you have to listen up here to find out!
Pic from Glenn's 4th Grade Trail Guides website.
The CSO is putting creative staff members and teacher and student collaborators to work in an all-out effort to improve the future. Download the show
here, enjoy, and spread the word!
ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you don't see a show next week, be patient, dear pilgrim. Snacks4theBrain! is going bi-weekly and longer--somewhere between 30 minutes but not longer than an hour, every other week! The format is still being fleshed out, but I really want to provide more music, some soundseeing tours of Nashville, and some interviews of educational technology movers and shakers. There's so much going on out there and the future of technology is so intensely interwoven with the future of science and science education that I feel it's the thing to do. Dont' you?
Plus, dear listener, it'll be even more
fun!!!!
So, starting with show number 38, it's a
bigger,
funner Snacks!!!
As mentioned, today's music is courtesy of the
Podsafe Music Network, a tasty, summery reggae tune by Austrian electronica wizard "
Dreamweaver" called "Summerfeeling." Oh, yeah...
Other links:
Read about Glenn's
Radnor Lake waterfowl study
Glenn's Yosemite pictures will be here soon
# posted by Scott Merrick @ 5/22/2006 02:09:00 PM
My erstwhile Center for Science Outreach Associate Director Dr. Glenn McCombs has been working with teachers, students, and scientists for years in a personal mission to connect all parties to their mutual benefit and advancement. He's an outdoorsman par excellence, a gifted teacher, and a really good guy. Listen to our chat as we touch on several ongoing programs--the GAS (Girls and Science) summer camp, its corollary for boys, the BEST (Boys Exploring Science and Technology) camp, and the GK12 Program--and then listen up as he describes a couple of our new programs that we haven't featured yet on S4theB!, the RIP program and the RET program. Dontcha just love acronyms? These are research experiences programs, one for high school students and one for classroom teachers. I'm not even going to tell you what these are--you have to listen up here to find out! Pic from Glenn's 4th Grade Trail Guides website.
The CSO is putting creative staff members and teacher and student collaborators to work in an all-out effort to improve the future. Download the show here, enjoy, and spread the word!
ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you don't see a show next week, be patient, dear pilgrim. Snacks4theBrain! is going bi-weekly and longer--somewhere between 30 minutes but not longer than an hour, every other week! The format is still being fleshed out, but I really want to provide more music, some soundseeing tours of Nashville, and some interviews of educational technology movers and shakers. There's so much going on out there and the future of technology is so intensely interwoven with the future of science and science education that I feel it's the thing to do. Dont' you?
Plus, dear listener, it'll be even more fun!!!!
So, starting with show number 38, it's a bigger, funner Snacks!!!
As mentioned, today's music is courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, a tasty, summery reggae tune by Austrian electronica wizard "Dreamweaver" called "Summerfeeling." Oh, yeah...
Other links:
Read about Glenn's Radnor Lake waterfowl study
Glenn's Yosemite pictures will be here soon
