Thread: Hello!

Hi,
I am really new at this. I am a computer user but I have never communicated with individual I do not know on the computer. I do not know all the details of newsgroups, etc. However, I do know I am an innovative educator interested in new ideas and I think that many times the BEST ideas come from outside your normal network of individuals.

One of the best things I have ever done in my life is apply to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to participate in a Biology Institute. This happened in 1996. Surprise, surprise I was accepted. Anyway, I am still wondering how I was accepted because it was a chance to network with outstanding science educators from all over the United States. I am still in very close contact with many of them. So the long and the short of it is if your are interested in the following I would love to talk to you:
...interactive science activities
...formal verses informal education
...anything in the area of science
...any grade level

I might also mention I am now an educational consultant at a science center but I have just come out of the classroom teaching high school biology honors, regular level biology and Biology AP.

On a personal note just FYI because a picture is worth a thousand words, I have attached a picture below. I am holding a Hawaiian grapefruit and it was taken in Hilo, Hawaii. The Big Island of the Hawaii is one of my most favorite places in the world.

Cathy