Please consider attending the workshop on teaching neuroscience at this year's annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The workshop will be held on Monday morning, November 14, from 9 to 11:30 am in Convention Center room 146C. There is no pre-registration or fee.

The topic this year is "A Preview of ERIN, Educational Resources in Neuroscience."

ERIN, "Educational Resources in Neuroscience," is the Society's new website to support higher education. It is now under development with public release expected in March 2012. The site will allow neuroscientists to recommend resources that they use in their courses, and to review and rate resources that they and others have recommended. A versatile search page will help find materials based on general topic, specific keywords, type of resource, educational level, average rating, and other descriptors. All listed resources will have been approved for quality and given descriptions and tags by ERIN's board of topic editors.

In this workshop, the editors will present highlights of resources they have identified in each topic area, and discuss why they believe those resources will enhance students' learning. The workshop will conclude with breakout groups for faculty interested in each of the topic areas.

The workshop is open to faculty, postdocs, and students at every level of teaching experience. A full schedule is available at the workshop's website, which also has links to materials from prior workshops:

       http://tinyurl.com/sfn-pdw

The ERIN editors and I look forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely,

Richard Olivo
Project Director, ERIN
Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Sciences, Smith College