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Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE)
Professional Development Workshop and Business Meeting
of the COSEE Council

January 25-26, 2007 
Offices of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)
Washington , DC

Thursday, January 25
9:00     Welcome and Introductions
9:15     Partnerships Presentation/discussion
Gordon Kingsley School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology COSEE National Advisory Board Member
10:30    Break
10:45   Hands-on partnerships activities (Gordon Kingsley)
12:30    Lunch
1:15    Reporting on morning activities and sharing of Center experiences
(Gordon Kingsley)
2:00    Joint discussion about interactions between partnerships and communications
(Gordon Kingsley and Peter Tuddenham)
2:30    Communications: Introduction and discussion
Peter Tuddenham President/Executive Director, College of Exploration
3:45     Break
4:00    External Communications Presentation/discussion
Cheryl Dybas Public Affairs Specialist, National Science Foundation (postponed)

4.00 Blended Conferencing: Using Technologies to Communicate Beyond the Four Walls of the International Pacific Marine Educators Conferencein Honolulu HI January 2007.
Dr. Scott Carley, NW Programs Director and Mr. Peter Tuddenham, Exec. Dir College of Exploration

5:00     End of day

Friday, January 26
9:00    Welcome and General Questions
9:15    Internal Communications (Peter Tuddenham)
10:15    Break
10:30   Communications: activities and discussion (Peter Tuddenham)

11.30 Small Group Reports - Visual Map, Concept Map, Communications from Blueprint

12:00    Lunch
1:00    Formal Council Meeting (see attached schedule)
3:00     Break
5:00     Adjourn

COSEE Council Meeting Agenda
January 26, 2007
Washington , DC

1:00 COSEE Blueprint: status report, next steps (Janice McDonnell and Billy Spitzer)
1:45 Special COSEE issue of Current : status report (Susan Ganter)
2:10 National COSEE evaluation: status report, PI survey (Michael Seaman)
2:35 NSF updates and requests (Don Elthon and Lisa Rom)
3:00 Break
3:15 Announcements
COSEE participation in NMEA 2007 and NSTA 2008
Other
3:40 COSEE meetings: dates, in-person/virtual (Susan Ganter and Billy Spitzer)
4:00 Council Roundtable Discussion (Billy Spitzer)
4:45 New business, final questions, and wrap-up
5:00 Adjourn