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SBSE Retreat 2003
Retreat Schedule

Program Coordinator
Leonard Bachman, University of Houston
lbachman@uh.edu



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  8/11/03
Monday
8/12/03
Tuesday
8/13/03
Wednesday
8/14/03
Thursday
8/15/03
Friday
6:40

Travel
and
Check-in

 

Breakfast

   
7:00
7:20
7:40 Load Bus
8:00

Breakfast 

Charter Bus Travel to Columbus  Breakfast Breakfast
8:20
8:40
9:00


Session 1:
(Room-A)

Teaching Facilities as Pedagogy


Session 2:
(Room-C)

Greening the Campus


Video:
Columbus
Visitors
Center


Session 3:
(Room-A)

Environ-
mental Centers


Session 4:
(Room-B)

Case Studies I

 Final Review and Pin-up
(Room-A)

Check-out
as
required

 

9:20 Dent Wasley


Interview:
First
Christian
Church

Bovill Haglund
9:40 Murray Koester Ermann Boake
10:00 Bachman Schiler


Columbus:
Guided
Downtown Walking Tour 

Afifi   Crutchf.
10:20 Wright Ming Ho  

 

10:40        
11:00
Concept Mapping:
Session 1
Breakout Groups

Concept Mapping:
Session 2
Breakout Groups

Concept Mapping:
Session 3
Breakout Groups

Concept Mapping:
Session 4
Breakout Groups
11:20
11:40
Pin-up Maps

Session 1
Groups

Pin-up Maps

Session 2
Groups
 
Pin-up Maps
Session 3
Groups

Pin-up Maps

Session 4
Groups
12:00

Lunch 

Lunch


Box Lunch:
Mill Race
Park 

Lunch

 Lunch

12:20
12:40
1:00
1:20

Travel
and
Check-in 


Crossover reviews of Concept Maps from Session 1 Groups 
and 
Session 2 Groups
(Room-A)


Crossover reviews of Concept Maps from Session 3 Groups 
and 
Session 4 Groups
(Room-A)

 Travel

1:40
2:00


Columbus:
Guided
Bus Tour/
Building
Visits

2:20
2:40

Break

Break

3:00


Learning From Buildings:
(Room-A)
Case Study Reports from the Agents of Change Project


Session 5:
(Room-A)

Case Studies II

3:20 Armpriest
3:40 Ogoli
4:00

Columbus:
Free
Exploration
Time

Lechner (Room B-C)
4:20  
4:40  
5:00


Welcome,
Intro's
and
Logistics
(Room-A)

Social Time


Roundtable Discussion:
(Room-A)
 
Mentoring the Next
Generation of Teachers

5:20

 
Banquet:
Smith's
Row
Food
and
Spirits
Speaker:
Bob
Stewart

5:40
6:00

 Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

6:20
6:40
7:00
7:20
7:40  
Green
Quilt
 
and
Omiyage
(Room-A)

 Social Time

Social Time

Charter Bus Travel to Waycross


Social Time

Social Time



Eve.


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Presenter/Participant Media Information:

Digital presentation equipment:
  Data projectors (2) will be available for connection to laptop computers.  In addition, two, Windows-based laptops loaded with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) will be available for use by presenters. Participants may bring their presentation data on CD or Zip Disk (100MB or 250MB) for use with these computers or may bring their own laptops (Apple or PC) for connection to the data projectors.

Conventional presentation equipment:  VCR/DVD/Monitors (2), Slide projectors/remotes/carosels (4 - 2 sets of 2), and overhead projectors (2) will be provided.

Support equipment:  Indirect access to the following equipment will be provided-  8-1/2x14 flatbed scanner, CDR/CDRW burner (using your CDs), 11x17 color inkjet printer, and photocopier.

Cellular phones:  Be advised that cellular phone coverage is unavailable at the conference center and camp areas.  Hiking up to the lake area may achieve access for some users.

E-Mail/Internet access:
1.  The Waycross offices have dial-up internet access. They have graciously offered the intermittent use of one of their computers and connection for participants to check email. The computer can be used by participants on an "as available" basis for checking email only. The user must be able to utilize a web-based system (web browser) to access their email for this to work for them. No other email client software can be installed or used.
2. There is a phone jack with potential internet access in a very, very small room that they call "The Quiet Room". Participants can connect their own laptops to this jack and use their modems if desired. However, the participant must have their own dial-up ISP with either a local phone number or must use a calling card number in their dial-up string to pay for the long distance charges.

 
Please contact the site logistics support person, Jeff Culp if you have other equipment/media needs.

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Things to Bring

For others at the Retreat:

1. Green Quilt:  In keeping with our theme, the idea is to bring an 8.5 x 11 map of your city (adopted, born, or otherwise) portraying its green features: natural, technical, societal, historical, or other... including parkways, bicycle trails, institutions supporting the environment, and so on. Give us an idea of a patchwork of green things that make a quilt in your city or town. Bring 42 copies to pass out and briefly describe while you introduce yourself. Let's invent a geography.
-- AND / OR --
2. Omiyage:  SBSE has a tradition of exchanging teaching "omiyage" (gifts) at the evening program.  Please bring a favorite teaching aid in sufficient quantity for all participants (42), to the Teaching Exchange during our first evening program on August 11. Past favors have included a portable sundial from Cris Benton, HVAC design shareware from Eric Angevine, cool lighting slides from Barbara Erwine, Energy Scheming baseball caps from G. Z. Brown's team, textbooks from Amana Miller at Wiley, a pocket balometer from Troy Peters,  Bring cool stuff to share!

For Yourself:
Attire at Waycross: The conference/lodging/dining center is entirely air conditioned.  Venturing into the adjacent camp area and grounds is of course another matter.  August in Indiana is usually VERY warm with highs routinely in the high eighties to low nineties.  Humidity routinely reaches 75 percent-plus.  Evenings are usually warm but can become cool and clammy as well.  Consider also that August is the height of mosquito season and selection of outdoor attire might include this as a consideration in addition to thermal comfort. Mosquito repellent is, of course, a good idea also, especially in the evenings.  There are sports fields and courts available so choose footwear accordingly.  The hiking trails are mild to moderate inclines and some fallen tree hopping is required.  Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts we will not be able to utilize the swimming facilities.  The retreat theme is of course casual.  
Attire in Columbus:  Comfortable walking shoes are a must.  We will be doing quite a bit of walking on Wednesday.  The Wednesday evening banquet in Columbus is at a nice restaurant but there is no dress code.
Equipment:  Your camera of course!  Great people and places will abound.  If you would like to fish the lake (catch and release) you will need to bring your own equipment/tackle/bait.
Libations:  As summer camp will not be in session there are no young impressionable campers to adversely influence.  Waycross allows alcoholic beverages at their facility but will not provide them.  The conference center is fairly remote so you may want to consider picking up anything that you would like on the drive in.  Shuttle drivers and the site logistics support person can of course be bribed to make "emergency" runs and/or stops.  There are a couple of common rooms at the facility that have refrigerators for storage of cold items.

Please contact the site logistics support person, Jeff Culp if you have questions.

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Contact Information

Anyone wishing to reach you at Waycross, 24-hours a day, should call:
(812) 597-4241

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