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Interactive Website and Online Discussion Enrich a Partnership with K-12 Classrooms

Joe Trumpey (jtrumpey@umich.edu [1]), Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, expanded an existing course, Scientific Illustration Field Sketching, to create an interdisciplinary, online collaborative program called Eco-Explorers that combines science, art, and environmental education. The course is currently listed with the School of Art & Design and School of Natural Resources and Environment. During each winter term, U-M students enrolled in Trumpey’s course compare and contrast a Michigan ecosystem and a distant system in order to research, study, and sketch the native flora and fauna. Students collaborate with K-12 classrooms around Michigan via a distance learning project that combines an interactive website and online discussions with personalized classroom visits. To view the Eco-Explorers website, go to
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/ecoexplorers/ [2]

Academic Area: 
Arts and Humanities
Discipline: 
Art & Design
Course Type: 
All
Faculty Name: 
Joe Trumpey
Pedagogical Goal: 
Facilitating collaborative authorship, editing, or peer review
Improving teamwork during group projects/activities
Teaching in an online/blended format
Technology Tool: 
Discussion Forum
Webpage Creation
Technology Type: 
Groupwork
Online Writing and Discussion
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Source URL: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/node/1053

Links:
[1] mailto:jtrumpey@umich.edu
[2] http://www.art-design.umich.edu/ecoexplorers/
[3] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/category/tags/faculty-using-technology
[4] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/category/tags/no-parent/great-teaching-university-michigan