Megan Schliesman from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at UW Madison sent this new bibliography that highlights books for children and teens about the environment:
Eco-Reading: Selected Books for Children and Teens about Our Earth and
the Environment is available on the CCBC web site at:
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=324
From the Outdoor Recreation Club:
The Outdoor Recreation club is offering, for the second time, a
Wilderness First Aid (WFA) class. We are hiring a trained instructor
from Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) to teach this
class. It is a fantastic class for anyone that goes outside. Even if
you just want to learn a little about first aid, this is also a
superior class and much more informative than the traditional First
Aid class. This class focuses a lot on immediate patient care and
reacting to an emergency situation. The class is designed to treat
minor injuries, and dress serious injuries until they can evacuated to
a hospital. It is a two year certification. It can also be used for
a WFR recert for WMA, NOLS or SOLO. I took the class last year and
used the information I learned few times last summer in the National
Park I worked out.
The class is Jan 17-18, about 8 hours each day. Saturday night there
is an optional Adult CPR class.
Cost for LU faculty and Staff $100 for WFA and an additional $35 for
CPR. You can take both or one class. I ask that you let me know by
the 17th of December, but if you have a change of heart, let me know
and I can probably fit you in.
For more specific information about the class, please visit http://www.soloschools.com/wfa.html
or send me an email milesd@lawrence.edu
I hope you all have a wonderful 10th and finals week.
Dan Miles
Fellow Faculty: If you’re like me, you’ve probably been wondering why you’ve been getting tutoring reports from the CTL in hard copy. After all, these used to come as email attachments, and the hard copy itself seems to be a printout of an electronic form! What’s up with that?
I called Julie Haurykiewicz, Director of the CTL, and she told me that they’ve been in the process of developing an online process whereby reports can be entered via Voyager and sent to instructors via email. It’s taken a little longer to finish this project than originally planned, but starting in Winter term, CTL reports will once again be paperless!
