April+9+email+about+course+requirements+and+schedule

Sust Ed:

I hope you had a great holiday weekend.

I write to recap what we went over in class on Friday --

Your grade for the course will be based on the following percentages: Active Participation 30% Contact Hours 20% Mid Term Essay 10% Curriculum Review and Innovation 20% Cumulative Essay 20%
 * Course requirements to keep in mind (from the syllabus):

http://ecoed.wikispaces.com/SustEd+syllabus
 * Class attendance is required, and counts toward your participation grade (30% of your overall grade). You can make up an absence by watching a feature length environmental documentary, and writing a film annotation. You can not use annotations written for other classes for this. The film annotation template is embedded in the syllabus. Scroll down here:


 * If you are missing contact hours, writing film annotations also can make these up. One contact hour = one annotation. I realize that watching a feature-length film and writing an annotation takes more than one hour, but a film can’t replace actual educational contact. Again, you cannot use annotations written for other classes.

http://ecoed.wikispaces.com/integrative+questions
 * Your final “Cumulative Essay” (worth 20% of your grade) will be due Tuesday, May 8. Questions will be posted this Tuesday, on the page where your mid-term essay questions were posted (draft questions are up now):


 * You do not have to do the integrative essay if you complete ten extra contact hours, and an extra original teaching module.

http://ecoed.wikispaces.com/Outline+for+Curriculum+Review+and+Innovation++paper
 * Your “Curriculum Review and Innovation” paper is due Friday, April 27. We may ask for additions before considering the submission final. We need full supporting documentation in order to make later use of the curriculum modules. The description from the syllabus, with a little elaboration, is posted here:

http://ecoed.wikispaces.com/SustEd+portfolios.
 * All of your work needs to be posted in your wiki portfolio, here:


 * On Tuesday of next week, the sust photography group will present their workshop plans, as will Adrienne Wilson (for a workshop focused on marine/whale conservation) and Ernesto Villasenor (for a module that will be incorporated into the water workshop led by Maureen White).


 * On Friday, Maureen White and associates will present their workshop plans, as will Lindsay Poirier (for a digital storytelling workshop).

Let me know if you have questions. I’ll post final questions for the cumulative essay shortly.

KF