Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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This is the first class I have ever taken where I need to push a button to indicate that my hand is raised. There is also a confused face, which I may use often, and an applause/satisfaction icon. I have my karaoke-style microphone plugged in, and I am ready to go. I just hope this rickety 2005 Dell Inspiron does not crash from managing so many complex audio and visual operations. I realize somewhat oddly this a unique experience in that I’m sitting alone in my room, door closed, isolated, yet interacting with other students in similar settings in this virtual classroom of ours. Hopefully their computing equipment is in vastly superior condition. Inspiron and I may not make it til December.
According to the schedule, it looks like we’ll be treated to several guest lecturers on topics as various as palm sampling, carbon offset programs, and the role of NGOs in conservation, all of which can be applied to the tropical deciduous forest (TDF). Our trip to Mexico is tentatively scheduled for January 4-15, 2010, where our mission will be to pilot permanent data collection plots for the palms. It’s exciting (to me at least) how the trip is still in the planning stages; it forces everyone to be dynamic. I like that. It’s still a little abstract as to what we’ll be doing and what we’ll be seeing, even where we’re going, but that will become more concrete with every class. --Lenna O.
photo from notebookreview.com
This is the first class I have ever taken where I need to push a button to indicate that my hand is raised. There is also a confused face, which I may use often, and an applause/satisfaction icon. I have my karaoke-style microphone plugged in, and I am ready to go. I just hope this rickety 2005 Dell Inspiron does not crash from managing so many complex audio and visual operations. I realize somewhat oddly this a unique experience in that I’m sitting alone in my room, door closed, isolated, yet interacting with other students in similar settings in this virtual classroom of ours. Hopefully their computing equipment is in vastly superior condition. Inspiron and I may not make it til December.
According to the schedule, it looks like we’ll be treated to several guest lecturers on topics as various as palm sampling, carbon offset programs, and the role of NGOs in conservation, all of which can be applied to the tropical deciduous forest (TDF). Our trip to Mexico is tentatively scheduled for January 4-15, 2010, where our mission will be to pilot permanent data collection plots for the palms. It’s exciting (to me at least) how the trip is still in the planning stages; it forces everyone to be dynamic. I like that. It’s still a little abstract as to what we’ll be doing and what we’ll be seeing, even where we’re going, but that will become more concrete with every class. --Lenna O.
photo from notebookreview.com
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About the Class
- NRES 285/ 499, Fall 2010, UIUC
- Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
- This course combines pre-trip classroom instruction with field study in the Sierra de Alamos in Southeastern Sonora, Mexico. Its purpose is to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to biodiversity and conservation of a diverse and significantly threatened ecosystem.
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