Concurrent+Sessions

**Updated information as of 10/14/2013**

**NOTE: to see the public planning wiki on concurrent session tracks, see:**

http://nmea2014sessions.wikispaces.com/home

NMEA 2014 Presentation Ideas: 3 days of sessions (22,23,24)

1) Classroom Focused track  a. Activities and Approaches  b. STEM Content—CAN WE MAKE THIS A SEPARATE QUESTION ON PROPOSAL FORM? yes  c . Project-based-learning?  d. Professional Learning Opportunities

2) Informal Education track  a. Working with K-12 teachers and school systems  b. tackling BIG science issues (w/o scaring visitors or your director...)- AZA help  c. leadership and professional development  d. hands-on/outdoor programs <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">e. free play/unstructured education--pros/cons, how to utilize, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">3) Scientific <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Research and a Changing World <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">– we can really invite people to present here, grad students, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> a. Earth System Research <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> b. Conservation and Habitat Research <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> c. Organism Research <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> c. New tools for research/exploration <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> d. Science and education policy [invited presenter: MADE CLEAR project- Don Boesch or Marcus Griswold?]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">4) Get Your Administration-on! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> a. working as or with a nonprofit <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> b. grant writing, searching for grants <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> c. exhibit development/starting up new programs <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> d. volunteer and staff management

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">5) Next Generation Science Standards <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> a. Understanding NGSS [invited presenter: Frank Niepold, NOAA] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> b. Implementation of NGSS (curriculum, lesson plans, etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> c. overcoming obstacles    6) Education Research and Program evaluation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">a. Program Evaluation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">b. Research in Informal Education Settings <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">c. Research in Formal Education Settings <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Education Research and Evaluation Methods and Best Practices

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">7) Ocean: Culture and the Arts <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> a. art and science - natural history illustration, using art to teach science <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> b. literature and poetry of the sea - ways of knowing the world of water thru haiku, poets <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> c. the power of the visual - video, film, photography <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> d. maritime history - song, art, literature <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> e. science writing and illustration programs <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> f. marinating the curriculum - examples of multi-discplinary ocean literacy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> g. traditional knowledge

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Regional programs will have a crab icon to denote them. Can be in any of the tracks. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Presentations with a social media component will have a smartphone icon to indicate this-can be in any tracks

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Try to have one session from each track in each time slot. One day devoted to NGSS (preferably the day that M. Wyesession speaks).

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">have a total of 120-124 sessions for the whole conference

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Volunteer Needs** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: organized by Maria from Baltimore

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Volunteers to announce presenters and to facilitate evaluation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">have 8 rooms so either 8 volunteers for the whole day, each day (assigned to a room for the day) or another option decided on by volunteer coordinator

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Volunteer “geek squad” to be present to help with tech problems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(4 volunteers -- each responsible for two rooms)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Volunteers to help check in presenters and get their presentations and upload to the correct laptop
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 or 3 on the 1st day of the conference

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) So a total of 15 per day--dedicated group or a rotation amongst the volunteers? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think it would work better with a dedicated group

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Evaluation** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Suggest we do an evaluation of past presenters to get their feedback <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Evaluations of the sessions (clicker evaluations) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Post-conference evaluations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Equipmen** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">t:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We need a dedicated laptop, screen, projector and all associated cables for each room


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">maybe get a sponser who is willing to provide the tech as their sponsership?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that means need 8 of everything with 1 or 2 backups
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">need the most current software available for all the standard programs (adobe, powerpoint, word, firefox, quicktime, video, and photo options, etc.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Extra items (do we need them?)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">laser pointers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">extra cards/connectors/extension cords

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">microphones

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Room setup tables and chairs in classroom setup

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is tear down and setup of the rooms done by us or by the hotel?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5) use radios during the conference to stay in touch

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Pay hotel tech person for the week ($1100) --- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is the hotel tech mostly for the big events (i.e. plenary speakers, night events) or will they be available to help with the sessions

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comments: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would like a centralized website for all sessions notes and shows <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interested in seeing how much this is used--is it beneficial/effective or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">could we put the presenters contact info in the program instead

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Presenters** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: When we send out request for proposals I think we need to ask for the following at the very basic level so we have a better idea of what we are selecting. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. title <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b. short description (for program) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">c. what their take away message is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">d. whether or not they have hand-outs/giveaways/etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">e. activity/lecture/both and a description <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">d. what they need in order to do presentation (A/V, water, tables, access to outside [Powerhouse 1st floor only]) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">f. what track they think they fit <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">g. preferred length of presentation (20, 45, or 90 min) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">h. whether or not they have presented before <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">i. why they want to present

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Program** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Crab icon for all regional sessions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Contact info for the presenter in the program so people can get presentations/ more info on their own rather than the centralized website mentioned above 3) smartphone icon for presentations with social media component

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Readers** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: would like to have 2 or 3 people reading proposals that have expertise in that area so they can pick the best ones, score the proposal with a rubrics that Chris will develop

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Formal track: Beth Jewel ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) and Dawn Sherwood and Taalibah Hassan <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Informal track: Ruth, Dia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Current/new science <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Kat Fourhman and  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Changing world <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Maria Madero and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Engaging Kids <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Kathy Fuller and  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funding and Development <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--Chris Petrone and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next Generation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Jen Collins and

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Action item: Chris P. will develop a rubric for presentations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Time of sessions** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do we want to offer different time period options <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">i.e. double session (90 minutes)--be aware this impacts what we offer in the next time slot <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font: 15px/1.15 Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">i.e. half sessions (20-25 minutes)--might be difficult in arranging but not impossible