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I’m not techno-phobic, but I’m not exactly cutting edge, either. My phone is a “stupid phone,” my favorite computer is a ten-year-old Dell laptop (dinosaurian by anyone’s standards,), and I only check my Facebook account once in a blue moon. (Which means I’ll have to get to that tonight…) I ease myself into the waters of technology just a little at a time. My latest plumbing of the depths was to play around with my Twitter account. Just to see [...]
I’ve taught middle level students for a lot of years. The bane of my existence is the whiney teen-ager, attitude oozing out of every pore, that go-ahead-and-try-to-teach-me look firmly in place, asking my least favorite question: “When am I ever gonna hafta use this?” Do I paint a familiar picture? I twist myself into a pretzel on a regular basis to make sure everything I teach has a purpose in the futures of my students. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes not [...]
For my birthday, I treated myself to a walk in the woods. I started out in life as a botanist and birder and I don’t get out to remember my roots often enough. (All puns intended.) I started off on one of the university garden’s well-paved trails until I noticed a path that swooped off into the woods. It looked interesting and I was in a mood to explore, so I walked into the woods. And I walked. And I [...]
The dictionary defines “vision” as 1) being able to see; 2) a mental image of what the future could be like; and 3) an experience of seeing something in a dream. I think the education team ran through all three of these as we wrote our education vision for CosmoQuest. It took us a while to get it right – imagine three educators trying to write one lesson plan – because we wanted to make sure it would [...]
On March 22, 2013 we found out that many NASA EPO programs will be suspended as a direct result of US budgetary sequestration. The full ramifications are still being learned, but we are proactively working to raise money to make sure that CosmoQuest can continue to support its staff and its programs. As we are able, we will also use any monies we raise to contract amazing people whose jobs are negatively impacted by budgetary cuts.
Your donation will support science education
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Total Raised: $3,600 (as of 5/13//2013)
