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Our 2010 Workshop Series: Advancing environmental education and optimizing opportunities for action

All workshop are free, but registration is mandatory. Workshops begin promptly at 9:15 a.m., and end at 4:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided, thanks to ConocoPhillips Canada. THANKS also to the Calgary Foundation and Alberta Ecotrust Foundation for their support of this workshop series.

 

How to engage your audience and change behaviours using social media and Web 2.0

This workshop took place on March 4/5,2010

To download resources and key findings from this workshop, click here.


Moving learners to action: a review of current research, and implications  for your environmental education program

This workshop took place on  April 15/16, 2010

To download resources and key findings from this workshop, click here.

 

How to plan and manage an environmental education program - AND evaluate its success -

Thursday Sept 9, Calgary or Friday Sept 10, Edmonton

 

Participants will...
  • Understand what a logic model is
  • Build a logic model for an existing or new environmental education program
  • Review instruments that can be used to measure outputs, outcomes, and impacts
  • Create a draft evaluation plan that can be used to evaluate the success of your environmental education program
Resource people:

Philip Cox -Plan:Net, Gareth Thomson - ACEE

CLICK HERE to register for the Calgary workshop.

CLICK HERE to register for the Edmonton workshop.

 

Do you have what you need?  Strengthening your organizations' internal policies and best practices to ensure effectiveness - 

Thursday Oct 28, Calgary, or Friday Oct 29, Edmonton

 

Participants will..
  • Review policies - and best practices- that help ensure a stable and successful non-profit organization: e.g. governance, succession planning, fund development, and financial managment, and new approaches to strategic planning
  • Inventory your organizations'existing policies, and identify gaps in your policy framework
  • Creat an action plan to develop essential policies and best practices within your organization
Resource People:

Stephen Legault Consulting, Gareth Thomson-ACEE

CLICK HERE to register for the Calgary workshop.

CLICK HERE to register for the Edmonton workshop.


More about these workshops

This series of full-day workshops has been developed in response to a December 2009 needs assessment of 70 stakeholder organizations.  (To view these results, click here.)

All workshops will:

  • Allow significant time for networking and information exchange between participants
  • Improve groups' ability to engage audiences in environmentally responsible behaviour
  • Highlight upcoming professional development opportunities and initiatives
  • Take place on Thursday and the following day, Friday

 

THANKS to the Calgary Zoo for hosting all the Calgary workshops; and to Alberta Environment for hosting the Edmonton workshops.