Elections coming up

If you are registered to vote in Bremer county there is a school board election on Tuesday.  Everyone who lives in Waverly votes at the Court House downtown.

Speaking of voting, while I was being trained to run the new computer system and vote my early ballot, I picked up some brochures for becoming a Precinct Election Official.  They are always looking for people who are comfortable with computers.  If you are interested, I have the brochures outside my office.

Fwd: BBC News: Green compensation scheme outlined

From Dr. Earl

I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it:

Green compensation scheme outlined

The UK government has outlined its proposals on compensating for the loss of biodiversity through development.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23972980


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#green #biodiversity

Orange Exceleration - Day 5

We spent this morning's class reviewing computer details and learning a little bit about the Scholars Program, Committees, and something called Scholars Culture Points, which then the students were told they really didn't have to start worrying about until Winter.  We took a picture in front of Old Main and then made sure everyone was ready for class tomorrow.  SCH 101 tomorrow is in Old Main 100(?) at 1:15 PM.  Hope to see you all there.

Class of 2017

Interesting competition from the NY Times

Are you 19 or younger?  Check this out:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/what-memorable-experiences-have-you-had-in-learning-science-or-math/?ref=science

BBC News: How many climate migrants will there be?

I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it:


How many climate migrants will there be?
An estimate that 200 million people could be forced to flee their country because of climate change has been repeated many times. But how reliable is it?

Read more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23899195




From Dr. Earl.

Orange Exceleration - Day 4

Today we had a 2 hour class that was only supposed to be 1.75 hours (oops).  We chose six social justice themes:

• Environmental Justice
• Educational Justice
• Minority Justice
• Political Justice (To be continued later)

Then the class split into two parts.  One part worked on Class rules and expectations.  The other part worked on filling in content for the two weeks for each Justice topic.  At the end of class, each group presented on their ideas.  Students were sent home with the assignment of continuing to work on their topics with a goal of evening out the amount of work each week.  I suggest:

• No more than one debate per week.
• No more than two writing assignment per week with the ability of students to have choices on what they are going to write.
• Variety of modes of learning.

Meanwhile, as I am working on class, I am listening to a radio show on "Custom Learning in the Digital Age" that might be interesting for students in the Scholars Program.