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CONSERVATION EDUCATION: FACILITATING INCREASED MEMBER INVOLVEMENT

SCB's initiative to revamp its Web site and make the site more useful or archiving and finding educational material is making progress. In general, as virtually everyone has discovered at some point, lists of links on Web pages are not revised frequently. Links rapidly become obsolete as sites go inactive and content becomes outdated. Thus, the challenge in creating a Web-based clearinghouse for information is developing a tool that allows users to post content easily on specific Web pages.

By the time this issue of the newsletter is published, the first implementation of such a tool should be available on SCB's Web site. The front page of the Conservation Education resources site (www.conbio.net/SCB/EducationTeaching_EN.asp) subdivides resources into several categories: K-12, undergraduate, graduate, continuing, international education, literacy guidelines, and so forth. The undergraduate education category will be the first to include our user-posting tool. It should now be possible for anyone to post information relevant to undergraduate conservation education. Such information might include--but certainly is not limited to--syllabi for a conservation biology courses, lecture notes for courses, reviews of textbooks, and descriptions or reviews of software used in a course.

In order to keep the majority of links active and current, all postings will be removed after a specified interval of time. We will use this column regularly to remind educators to update their postings. If SCB members consistently use the Conservation Education resources site to post material, then the site will become an invaluable resource to undergraduate instructors for current information on course design and content, textbooks, and software.

We also plan to implement the user-posting tool for several other categories of resources, such as graduate programs, continuing education, and on-going discussions regarding symposia, which will make searching for current information easy and efficient. Please take a moment to review the changes to the Conservation Education Web site.

Steve Trombulak, Chair, Education Committee
Kat Powers-Morris, SCB Executive Office

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