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Denise Egéa-Kuehne
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SELECT
Team, Preliminary Meeting, December 2006, left to right:
- Dr. Sophie Warny (Education Director at the Museum, Assistant Director for Educational Outreach in the College of Basic Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Geology and Geophysics) - Terri Hammatt (Foreign Language Program Consultant, Louisiana Department of Education) - Bernard Dubernet (French Education Project) - Nicole Boudreaux (President, Consortium of Louisiana Immersion Schools) - Dr. Denise Egéa-Kuehne (Director, French Education Project), and - Arnaud Sgambato (Attaché Pédagogique, French Education Project and Consulate General of France in New Orleans). |
| - Jean
May-Brett (MSP Coordinator, Louisiana
Department of Education)
- Adrienne Lopez (MNS Alumnus and LSU Coordinator for the Scope-On-A-Rope program, College of Basic Science), and - Rebecca Tedford (Curatorial Assistant and Doctoral Candidate, Museum of Natural Science). |
| On Monday, January 29,
the fourteen Louisiana educators (two per site, one in French, one in science)
and our SELECT partners were invited for an orientation meeting, in the
morning at the Museum of Natural Science, and in the afternoon at the LSU
Distance Learning Labs for training with Bobby Callender, Coordinator of
the E-Learning Technologies Center for Instructional Media Services/CELT.
It prepared the fourteen SELECT educators for their role as distance-learning
facilitators.
The morning was spent at the LSU Museum of Natural Science where Dr. Sophie Warny, presented the facilitators and guests with an overview of the Museum research and education programs and Dr. Egéa-Kuehne with a description of the BoR SELECT project and videoconferences program. After a general orientation to the SELECT program and the Museum, we offered several round tables. |
ROUND TABLES - VIDEOCONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
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| Foreign language and science facilitators and guests learn about the self-guided field trip book written by Dr. Sophie Warny and translated, thanks to the FEP, in French by Dr. Stanislas Dubois and Anne-Sophie Dubois... |
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Curatorial Assistant
Rebecca Tedford demonstrates one of the workshop activities to Jean May-Brett
from the Louisiana Department of Education and
to facilitators. |
In the background, the new MNS AV system funded by the Pennington Family Foundation displays samples of creatures living in the LSU lakes. |
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| Terry Hammat, Louisiana
Department of Education, Marie-Nicole Zahm,
SELECT facilitator (Henry Heights Elementary, Lake Charles), and Glenda Cormier Williams, Consultant World Languages PK-12 (Calcasieu Parish) learn about new ways to integrate LSU Scope-on-a-Rope (SOAR) in the classroom. |
Adrienne Lopez, LSU MNS
alumnus and
SOAR coordinator demonstrates how to integrate the scope into the curriculum. |
MNS student worker Loren
Price
demonstrates an ancient Indian pottery-making technique called “coiling,” an activity to be integrated into the last workshop Fall 2007. |
MUSEUM
COLLECTIONS
After
the round tables, the facilitators and guests were treated to a visit of
the MNS collections
where
several scientists volunteered their time to discuss their research with
them..
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Curator of the Bird Collections |
Brian Fontenot, science facilitator for Lake Charles site, Dr. Chris Austin, Curator |
To protect tissue collection since Katrina and Rita hurricanes |
in ultra-cold electric refrigerated containers |
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Curator of the Mammal Collections |
Curator of the Genetic Resources |
LUNCH AT THE LSU FACULTY CLUB
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