NAAEE 33rd Annual Conference
Biloxi, Mississippi
November 5-11, 2004

Workshops

Choose from nine incredible workshops to enrich your mind and expand your skills.
All workshops except E are scheduled for Saturday, November 6 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM and
Sunday, November 7 from 9:00AM to 5:00PM.
Workshop E is scheduled for Saturday from 5:00PM to 7:00PM, and
Sunday from 9:00AM to 5:00PM.

A. Educating for Sustainability: Paradigms and Practices
In this interactive workshop we will introduce participants to key aspects of the body of interdisciplinary knowledge; the thinking skills and the tools we have developed over the past 10 years to educate for a sustainable future.
Primary Coordinator: Jaimie P. Cloud, Sustainability Education Center, Inc.
Cost: $122.00

B. EE and Diversity Cases: Learning Through Other's Experience - CANCELLED
Experience real-life dilemmas when you read personal accounts faced by environmental educators who reached outside their cultural community. Strengthen your ability to work with diverse audiences by discussing issues raised. Participants will receive a copy of; What's Fair Got To Do With It: Diversity Cases from Environmental Educators.
Primary Coordinator: Augusto Medina, EETAP
Cost: $81.00

C. Involving Youth in Community Issues
"Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions" (IEEIA) introduces 6-12th grade learners to community issues on various environmental topics. This curriculum engages learners in issue analysis; investigation/evaluation and decision making skills relative to issues of interest in their community. This is a nationally recognized research based model.
Primary Coordinator: Jerry R. Culen, University of Florida
Cost: $68.00

D. Nonformal EE Programs - Guidelines of Excellence
This workshop introduces participants to the newest publication in the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education series: Non-formal Environmental Education Programs - Guidelines for Excellence. Through guided exercises; participants learn how to use the six key characteristics as a tool for developing and implementing a comprehensive; cohesive EE program.
Primary Coordinator: Bora Simmons, Northern Illinois University
Cost: $58.00

E. Professional Development for Affiliate Organization Leaders
Designed for NAAEE Affiliate organization leaders; this workshop provides a rare face-to-face opportunity for enhancing communications; planning; and information sharing. Key topics: strengthening/building capacity of our organizations; in's-and-out's of 501(c)(3)s; effective budgeting; diversifying our memberships; and strategies for promoting and building support for environmental education in our communities.
Primary Coordinator: Linda Rhoads, EE Association of Oregon
Cost: $25.00

F. The Leadership Clinic Model: Innovative Event Design
Are you planning a workshop; training or conference? Experience firsthand how Leadership Clinic tools and techniques can apply to your own event planning. Participants consistently state that the clinic is the best professional development experience of their career. Come find out why!
Primary Coordinator: Amy A. Kowalski, NEEAP
Cost: $87.00

G. Using Logic Modeling to Design Your Program's Evaluation
Participants will apply key concepts of the user-focused approach to program evaluation by designing an evaluation for their programs (bring program documentation). This design will include a logic model; stakeholders; objectives; instruments; data sources; and collection methods. Those interested are invited to attend in teams or individually.
Primary Coordinator: Emma Norland, e-Norland Group
Cost: $61.00

H. Using the Media to Get Environmental Education Messages Out
This workshop provides environmental educators with the skills to handle print and broadcast interviews, know what to say, how to get your half of the control, and become an effective spokesperson for EE. Equivalent workshops in Washington, DC cost thousands. Learn, save money, and have fun!
Primary Coordinator: Brian A. Day, International Institute for Environmental Communication
Cost: $124.00

I. Wetland Education - A Watershed's Glue
More productive than rain forests or coral reefs; accessible to all and under increasing threat; wetlands are a watershed\'s glue. Come and learn how to bring wetlands alive and into the classroom with activities taken from the nation\'s premier wetland curriculums - WOW! and POW! Primary Coordinator: Karleen Vollherbst, Environmental Concern
Cost: $99.00

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