Projects and Publications

Projects

I am currently involved in a number of projects and research activities.

• The implementation of the 1997 - 1998 GTP---Georgia/Russia Exchange. This project, funded by the United States Information Agency, is the third in a series of student and educator exchanges. Fifty American students from Georgia and 50 Russian students and their teachers will spend three weeks in each others' country carrying out environmental research projects.
• Evaluation of the GTP---Georgia/Russia Educator/Student Exchange. Using data collected during the exchange period of October 1996 to May 1997, we are trying to find out what students and educators learned from the GTP exchange. Results will be included in the USIA final report which will be published in December 1997.
• The development of the GTP website, under the director of Yong Hu, a graduate student in the Physics Department. To help teachers who join the GTP, we are creating a web site that will contain a set of Internet tools to facilitate global collaboration, and research on environmental science issues. Vist the GTP web site to follow our development.
• Publication of the GTP teacher's guide and resource book. Working with Julie Weisberg, we are preparing the GTP guide for publication by Goodyear Publishing. The manuscipt will be delivered to the publisher in Novebmer 1997 and publication is set for Fall of 1998. The GTP web site will augment the GTP guide so that teachers anywhere in the world will be able to join the GTP, and participate in global environmental activities.
• Seminars for science teachers on constructivism, active learning and the internet. Fall 1997 and Winter 1998
• Teaching at the University of Hawaii at Hilo in Marlene Hapai's science teacher enhancement project which is funded by the Eisenhower Higher Education Program of the U.S. Department of Education.
• A new seminar on Using the Internet to Enhance Science Teaching---Spring 1998
• Video conferencing among American and Russian teachers and students using CUSeeMe software and digital cameras.

Publications

Recent publications include:

• "Citizen Scientists: Student Experiences in the GTP Georgia/Russia Exchange Project," Journal of Science Education and Technology, with Susan Dunkerly-Kolb. (Fall 1997).
• "Teaching Students to Think Globally," Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Winter, 1997.
• Increasing Your Students Science Achievement (1997). Bellvue, WA: Bureau of Education and Research.
• Using the Internet to Enhance Science Teaching (1998). Bellevue, WA: Bureau of Education and Research.