Newsletter #9
Chemists Without Borders Newsletter #9 is out on the website. Click on the title of this post for the link (.pdf). ELMO
Month: September 2008
Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning
An announcement from Professor Fahmy: Dear colleagues- We are pleased to be able to announce the availability of the official Systemic Approach to Teaching and Learning (SATL) website; the website is called “SATL Central.”[www.satlcentral.com] . As you may know, SATL techniques have been successfully applied to a wide spectrum of disciplines, and those reports have …
On Wings of Eagles
My sister-in-law recently recommended that I read Ken Follett’s On Wings of Eagles about extricating Ross Perot’s falsely accused EDS employees from prison in Iran during the fall of the Shah. It was a fascinating story, and often quite moving. I found various comments, listed below, quite relevant to our own Chemists Without Borders enterprise. …