Faculty Contact Information

As Beth just wrote in her email to you all, we hope you all arrived home safely and are relating your experiences to your family and friends.  We are very happy that we did not have any serious injuries and that we had so many great conversations and experiences in just a few days.

As promised, here is our email contact information:

Beth S. Klein - beth.klein@cortland.edu
Karl Klein - kleink@sunyocc.edu
Tim Slekar - tds12@psu.edu
Alexis Abramo - alexis.abramo@cortland.edu

I am still working on getting the photos up on a photosharing site.  I will post here, and send out an email  message when I get it ready.  We have a LOT of photos.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!  And, please do keep in touch and let us know of your successes and joys in teaching.  We always take great delight in hearing about all the neat things you do in your classrooms (whatever kind of "classroom" you have).

Cheers!

Karl

Black Bear Mt. Climb Photos

2010 Tentative Schedule

Hi everyone!

If you go to the website for the course, you will find a schedule for next week.  As always, it's tentative, depending on factors beyond our control.  But, with any luck, we should be able to stick pretty close to what we have laid out:

http://sites.google.com/site/adkclassroom/

I hope that you have finished most of the reading by now and are prepared to talk about what you have learned.  As you will see from the schedule, we have a couple of special guests on Tuesday - including Dr. John Slade, the author of the course text - Adirondack Green.  I am sure Dr. Slade will be delighted to sign your copy of Adirondack Green.

Before we meet Dr. Slade on Tuesday, we will also meet an authentic and real-life Adirondack Guide, Ed Kanze, who will be sharing some of his knowledge of the ADKs and also some tales from the region.  Here's a link to Ed's website:

http://www.edwardkanze.com/

I hope you are looking forward to our time together.  Beth, Tim, and I always enjoy this experience with you and it's always one of the highlights of our year - both professionally and personally.

See you on Sunday!

- Karl

What do you think about this situation?

Hi everyone!

I just ran across this story in the NY Times.    It might make a good topic for a conversation next week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/education/19winerip.html?src=me&ref=general

A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions

Karl

Adirondack Classroom - Summer 2010

Well, this blog is active again as we prepare for this summer's adventure.

As the summer participants log in and create  blogs, I will post the addresses here and we can begin to get to know each other before arriving at Camp Huntington later this month.

Please post YOUR blog address as a comment to this post.  It will help me see that you have gotten this far.  Once I see your blog address, I will add it to the blogroll.

Beth, Tim, and I are looking forward to our time together.

- Karl

Final Posting (no promises, though) for Summer 2009 Course

Hi everyone - Hopefully you have returned home safely to your loved ones and that they are glad to have you back. Our dog, Mayday, seemed to be glad to see us when we picked her up from our neighbor last evening.

We enjoyed a leisurely drive home and stopped in Inlet for a treat and some shopping. Hopefully you will also be able to occasionally take just a little more time to stop, and get off the trail once in a while as you re-enter your lives.

For your final assignment, we want to expand on what we asked you yesterday in our closing session. This is really more for us to see how we might make adjustments in future classes and for us to gauge what you took away from the course. For your final posting in your blog, please address the following points:

Part 1:

Please DESCRIBE (this means MORE than list, you know...) at least five meaningful things you learned in this course and how these things have, or will, effect change(s) in your life (either personally or professionally).

Part 2:

Please DESCRIBE at least three things you have taken away from the course topics, activities, discussions, and/or readings that will affect what you do to in your classroom (or workplace) that will connect our week to what you do every day.

The deadline for this posting is Wednesday, July 22nd at midnight. We look forward to seeing these reflections on our time together. We enjoyed getting to know each of you and we do hope that as you experience successes in your careers that you will, once in a while, think to share them with us.

Best wishes in all you do and we thank you for your service to our children and our society.

Beth and Karl

Bonus - Double Post Day Today!

We had a great day today. The rain held off and we managed to get a lot of people across the ropes, lines, boards, cables, and logs on the Camp Huntington Ropes Course.

But, since it IS a college course, we first spent the morning discussing ways to bring some things "down from the mountain" and back into classrooms across NY State.

In addition, we discussed the ideas of Transition Towns and how schools might be able to help other citizens adjust to the changes coming with energy and other resource, fiscal, and social challenges.

Here's a link to today's action photos. Part 1 Part 2

- Karl