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Teaching Associate Podcast Workshop |
Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center |
To view the finished podcasts, click here.
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| The members of the 2007 Teaching Associate Podcast Workshop, preparing the script before taping. The podcast is designed to aid Teaching Associates who are about to begin teaching for the first time. From left to right are graduate student TAs: Sean Vogt, Laney Whitlow, Ayesha Mir, Neema Izadi, and Dr. Anne Houtman, Instructor of the Biology Department TA training course at California State University Fullerton. For more images from the script writing sessions, click here. |
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| The Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center housed the workshop, tucked in a hidden canyon in a remote part of the Eastern Mojave Desert. Part of the University of California Reserve System, the reserve protects 9,000 acres of varied habitat, and has services for researchers and conferences. It also shelters archeological sites and rock art (pictographs, etc,) left by Chemehuevi and other Native American tribes. For more images of the Sweeney Research Center and the surrounding landscape from this workshop, click here. |
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| Here Sean Vogt photographs a ceiling vault of Native American rock art, as Ayesha and Dr. Houtman look on, a rare opportunity, as these locations are within the reserve, and not open to the public, as well as being in caves in secluded and in hard to find areas. For more rock art images, click here. |
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| The steep rocks and dramatic lighting made an intriguing backdrop for recording the podcast presentations. Here Neema Izadi delivers his part of the podcast as he is taped by William Prouty. For more images of the podcast recording sessions, click here. |
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| Once the recording work as finished, there were additional opportunities to socialize, play the guitar, stargaze and watch the Geminid meteor shower, and generally enjoy life at this remote part of the Mojave Desert. For more pictures of the TAs enjoying the weekend, click here. |
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