John Brady, Mary E. Moses Professor Emeritus
Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063
413-585-3953,  http://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/

An NSF-funded (DUE) workshop on teaching petrology will be held at Smith College in Northampton, MA on 2-5 August, 2023. Recent developments in online resources for teaching petrology offer new paths to enhance and perhaps accelerate petrology learning. COVID-driven remote teaching has given many professors an unplanned push into teaching with online materials, and many have worked to make some of their own course materials available on the internet. What did we and can we learn from our internet-based remote teaching experiences? How might we best integrate the use of online resources with traditional, in-class and field-based instruction? This workshop is intended to bring together a modest group of petrology teachers with a wide range of experiences and teaching needs to share their knowledge and aspirations. Through presentations and discussions, we will attempt to identify and create new ways to use online resources to improve student learning in our classes. In particular, small (3-5) groups of participants will design and write student assignments that use online resources to work with and help teach specific concepts. The extensive, interactive igneous and metamorphic petrology website written and coded by co-PI Brady will serve both as an example and as a vehicle for implementing the new activities and for making them generally available. Participants will agree to use and evaluate one or more of the new activities in their classes in the academic year following the workshop. Expenses for travel (reasonable airfare) and lodging (two people per room) will be reimbursed for all attendees. If you teach an intermediate level course in petrology, or an earth materials course that includes petrology, and would like to participate in this workshop, fill out this application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE6ErCZHDtubw_HhXPx2UriES9ZGW9x-HOPYNIl2errWSWJw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link> by May 1st. The workshop organizing committee will review the information received and select 20 teacher participants with the goal of assembling a working group that represents a wide range of experiences and teaching needs. If you have questions concerning this workshop, please feel free to contact any member of the organizing committee. *Workshop Organizing Committee* John Brady, Smith College (jbrady@smith.edu) Clem Hamelin, College of William and Mary (c.hamelin.us.fr@gmail.com) Sarah Mazza, Smith College (smazza@smith.edu) Heather Petcovic, Western Michigan University (heather.petcovic@wmich.edu) Interactive Petrology Website https://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petrology/index.php ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Brady, Mary E. Moses Professor Emeritus Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 413-585-3953, http://www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~