7 April 2009
Dear Mineral Physics Colleagues,
In a collaboration between COMPRES and the On the Cutting Edge program for professional development of geoscience faculty, we are soliciting your contributions to a new collection of web-based instructional resources related to Mineral Physics. The goal is to develop a comprehensive collection of instructional resources that can be used specifically in Mineral Physics courses, and more generally to help teach "Mineral Physics Across the Curriculum" by making these resources available in related courses such as petrology, geochemistry, and structure/tectonics. The first version of this website can be viewed at: http://serc.carleton.edu/31415 .
Here's how you can help: if everyone on the COMPRES listserv contributes
one or two teaching resources (we know that you all have a couple of really
good Powerpoints, problem sets, lab exercises, etc.) we will have a tremendous
collection to share with the larger geoscience community. We are looking for
contributions of:
• Teaching Activities (e.g. problem sets, demonstrations, lab activities…)
• Supporting web-based resources (e.g.URLs with links to Powerpoints,
class notes, tutorials, and to sites you use in class such as USGS, analytical
facilities, information posted on professors' personal webpages….);
• Citations to articles from scholarly journals that you use in your own
classes, and that could be used to develop additional teaching activities; and
• Course syllabus.
These contributions can be submitted at: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/contribute.html
For URLs and articles, submit the citation information and a brief description
of why the resource is interesting or important. For Teaching Activities, our
submission form requests contextual information such as learning goals, target
audience, skills or knowledge required, and then simply upload any Word, PDF,
Excel, and/or image files related to the activity. It may take ~30 minutes to
provide this information. We will be happy to either link to resources that
are posted on your own website, or we can post these resources directly on the
Mineral Physics page if you prefer.
Our initial task is to aggregate, organize and disseminate the resources that are already "out there". We have already repurposed the teaching resources currently online at On the Cutting Edge into this new Mineral Physics module. At a later stage, we will do a gap analysis of the newly contributed resources and will then recruit additional contributions on topics of particular interest.
For now, please check out the Mineral Physics website, and please take a few minutes to contribute the resources at your disposal. Thanks in advance for your help,
Bob Liebermann, President, COMPRES
Dave Mogk, co-PI, On the Cutting Edge
(mogk@montana.edu for questions, comments
about the webpage or inquiries about contributing resources; feedback is always
appreciated)