Instructor: Scott Rowland

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Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 16 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Earth science is taught very well in high schools in Hawaiʻi... Whereas if it's a social thing, it's hard to live and not learn social things.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 15 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Some things lend themselves to being place-based much better. There's a woman out in West Oʻahu teaching physics or math who is teaching celestial navigation and currents so it's all tied in.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 14 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Especially for the Hawaiʻi kids, it's super eye opening. A couple of years ago, one of the students from Kauaʻi, before he went on our [California] trip, had never been to a place so big and all land. When they take their courses here, they learn about rocks and minerals and structural features that we don't have for the most part.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 13 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Almost all of our required courses have at least some discussion of various aspects of Hawaiian geology. [In 100], most people put some lectures about Hawaiʻi, volcanoes, coastal processes, depending on who it is... We have two Hawaiian geology courses. GG 103 is a survey of introductory geological concepts, and all the examples are about Hawaiʻi. In the beginning, you just go from island to island and talk about the specific geology of each island. GG 402 is advanced level Hawaiian geology. Neither of those are required.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 12 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: The pre-req, GG 200, has been Writing Intensive. We're slowly realizing the more writing they do in their own subject... it improves their writing skills. Everybody always grumbles about their writing. They don't learn it a birth. They have to practice it a little bit.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 11 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Depending on what island [the local kids] are from, they may or may not know some of these locations. Depending on whether they are outdoors types, they may or may not know. The mainland kids sometimes know it better because they like to go hiking and they've been to these places... Hawaiian geology is not a requirement for our major, so I often have to do some instructing on those aspects.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 10 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: [Being from Hawaiʻi aids my instruction because] I know examples of [geological features] that I can talk about. I've got photos of them. It makes me more comfortable going on field trips. I wish my colleagues would take [students] on field trips.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 9 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: They will have read technical papers in other classes, so hopefully they recognize the difference in something that is written for a specific knowledgable audience. It's knowing who your reading audience is that's key. I want them to write as if the person who's gonna read this knows as much as you do.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 8 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: The process of writing something makes you think abou it... Forcing yourself to write something down about it, for most people, cements it a little bit better... I purposely avoid using powerpoint that has text on it so they have to write stuff down... The goals I have are less about the teaching them the specific geo facts of the places they visit. I certainly want them to learn those things, but what I feel is more important is the writing, is the ability to function outdoors, and be able to locate themselves, identify the rocks, plot things on maps, those kinds of things; be independent, even though it's hot and windy or whatever, and have the confidence to get good data that can be described.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 7 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I don't get much writing from them typically. [In a] remote sensing course, the final project is a mapping project, but with satellite data; and they have to put together a geologic map purely out of images, and then write a report describing each of the geological units that they have identified... Usually they will write a paragraph or so about each rock unit. It can be bulleted points... Mostly looking at content. If the writing's horrible, I'll say so.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 6 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: I haven't [taught WI courses that are not place-based.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 5 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: They really struggle with their writing, which is worrisome because they're seniors. Spellchecking, use of references, all this kind of stuff. My syllabus has almost three pages of thoughts on writing soapbox. Every year we go through the same thing: go back and read that. Even if you took a class in such and such, even if you got an A, you're not going to remember every single thing. Some things have to be re-learned in a different way [and in a different context].
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 4 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: They typically know each other because they have been taking classes for a few years. I encourage them to work together in the field just for safety's sake. They have to write individual reports, of course, but for safety and bouncing ideas off each other in the field. When we go together to california, and we're living together for 11 days, and riding around in the same van, eating dinner and breakfast together, there are an awful lot of dynamics. It's really fun. I think they end up, more than in most courses, knowing each other really well, which is usually a good thing.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 3 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Students spend three to four saturdays at Hanauma Bay making a geological map, wandering around, navigating with GPS, noting on their map what layers they're at, [and] looking at the distribution of the layers... I give a lecture in the second week of the semester where I go over the parts of a typical paper. What is an abstract? What goes in it? What doesn't go in it? What is an intro? what goes in it, what doesn't go in it; and so on. I give them the full skeleton... [In shorter papers] you may not want to spend time writing [the distinct parts], but you want to at least think in that order.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 2 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: It's almost impossible to write a geological article without discussing the place where the features are that you're describing.
Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Geology & Geophysics, clip 1 of 16
(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Rowland, Scott; Henry, Jim; Bost, Dawne
Brief excerpt from interview: Field methods courses [are place-based] by default [because] we're on Oʻahu: geologic diversity, different things to study in those places... If [the geologic diversity] were available on-campus, I would stick to campus.

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