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Conservation Biology Hot topics in biology research project: collaboration of landscape and biology students

Students will be paired to jointly develop an article for possible consideration in Wikipedia. The biology students will choose a topic and be responsible for doing the necessary research to develop an article. The landscsape student will be resonsible for developing the graphics that would accompany the article.

Schedule: Week One:  Introduction to our Wikipedia assignment.

Week Two: Field trip to Fort Lauderdale.

Week Three and four.

Week Five: landscape students to select the article/topic and student in biology they wish to work with.

Week Six: Meet with biology student and discuss strategies and responsibilities and schedule for completing assignment. Reserach 5-7 graphics examples that may inform you of the type of graphics appropriate for the assignment.

Week Seven - eight: Develop 3-5 graphics for assignment. Schedule working session with your biology student partner. Report discussion topics and outcomes of working meeting. 1/2 page.

Week Nine - ten:  select and refine.

Week eleven: Peer review.

Week twelve: post for input/feedback from Wikipedia community.

Week thirteen: edit your graphic and submit with article.

SdeC One of the unexpected positive experiences walking the Camino was meeting people from many different countries. When first meeting someone, gaining eye contact, the first question that comes to mind before opening your mouth is what language to speak in. For me, it would be Spanish thinking--silly me--that being in Spain most people would be prepared to speak in Spanish. But no, the other person if they did not speak Spanish, would either respond to your hello in English or their native language. I thought that being in Spain the common language would be Spanish but most people spoke either their native language--French, German, Korean--or English. However, there were some people--most notably the French and to a lesser extent German--only spoke their native language. In the encounters where there was no common language where my new found French friend and I did not have a common language we would then try different language and/or hand sign language strategies to further our encounter. The attempt to continue the "conversation" or exchange was predicated that both of us were willing to make the effort. Most time we would but on the rare occasion we would shrug our shoulders, smile politely, then go on our separate ways.