I am honored to currently serve as the Chair of the Public Education Committee (PEC) of the Society for American Archaeology. At the Annual Conference of the SAA this April 23-27 the PEC is pleased to sponsor the sessions listed below. Here is a link for more information on the Annual Meeting including a complete program. Hope to see you in Austin!

Welcome to Online Archaeology!

Thursday, April 24, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Maximum 24 persons;

$79 Annual Meeting attendees;

$49 student meeting attendees;

$129 non-meeting attendees

Instructors: Shereen Lerner (MesaCommunity College), Nancy Gonlin, RPA (Bellevue College), and Christine Dixon (University of Colorado and Bellevue College)

Target Audience: Archaeologists who teach or want to learn how to teach online or hybrid courses or improve the current content of their courses. The latest trend in education is the offering of online courses. As archaeologists, it is our duty to ensure high-quality education and to successfully convey the essence of the field through the medium of online teaching. This workshop will be a hands-on experience to demonstrate and share what has worked successfully in the online archaeology classroom. Several archaeologists have extensive experience in teaching in this environment and are familiar with various approaches that can be taken, regardless of the learning management system used by an institution to run online courses. Attendees will have the opportunity to map out a module of their own classes.

Major outcomes and lessons of the workshop participants will take away:

A sense/knowledge of what approaches work well in the online environment Activities, films, assignments, and other assessments that convey essential archaeology concepts Links to resources for online archaeology education How to set up blogs and discussion areas and incorporate it into the online classroom How to incorporate or improve a course module and an outline of it

Public Education Committee Meeting

Thursday, April 24, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Salon C (HA)

Public Education State Network Coordinators Meeting

Friday, April 25, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Salon D (HA)

Electronic Symposium · Getting Back to Saving the Past for the Future: Heritage Education at a Professional Crossroads

Thursday, April 24, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Room: 19B (ACC)

In 1988, the Society for American Archaeology initiated the “Save the Past for the Future” Project to curb vandalism and destruction of archaeological resources, and provide for public education. Federal and state agencies and partners responded with an impressive variety of programs such as the Passport in Time program and Project Archaeology. The SAA’s Public Education Committee (PEC) became not only a clearing house for heritage education, but launched a number of successful internal and external initiatives, through the dedicated service of over 50 members. Despite the successes of the PEC, Board support for the large, active group waned and in 2008 reduced the size to 15 rotating members, in keeping with new SAA committee policy. During the same period environmental educators formed the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). The NAAEE has state chapters to promote environmental education within states, establish best practices, and holds an annual meeting that attracts 1000 educators. Today the future of heritage education is threatened because it has no organization to support the efforts of a large group of heritage education professionals. This session will explore the development of heritage and environmental education and examine the possibilities for future professionalization of heritage education.

Here is a link to the papers for the session.

Chair: Margaret Heath

Participants:

Shereen Lerner—Challenging the Status Quo

Maureen Malloy—Archaeology Education in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future

Jeanne Moe—Archaeology and the Common Core State Standards: All Hands onDeck

Hope Luhman—Considering the Possibilities: Cultural Resource Management’s Role in Heritage Education

A. Gwynn Henderson—Public Archaeology at the Kentucky Archaeological Survey

Ryan Harke—Towards a Public Environmental Archaeology: History, Survey and Suggestion

Ben Thomas—Facilitating Outreach and Education on a Grassroots Level

Robert King—Heritage Education at the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree: A Report on an Opportunity Taken

Meredith Hardy—New Directions in Archeological and Cultural Heritage Education

Eleanor King—Heritage and the Underrepresented: the Perspective from Howard University

Margaret Heath—Past, Present, and Future Directions of Heritage Education

[152] Symposium · Co-Creation, The Public, and the Archaeological Record

Friday Morning, April 25, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Room: 19B (ACC)

Co-creation in public archaeology is a means to engage and empower citizens to become stakeholders of the archaeological record. In museum contexts Simon (2010:278) writes that the purpose of co-creative community projects is “to give voice and be responsive to the needs and interests of local community members; to provide a place for community engagement and dialogue; and to help participants develop skills that will support their own individual and community goals.” The papers in this session discuss a variety of recent archaeological projects that implement the co-creative model. The contributions demonstrate how co-creation moves beyond “hands-on” educational experiences or typical volunteer programs because participants are invited to play an active role in designing and constructing the final products to address their needs and interests. Co-creation aligns with current emphases on informal, lifelong, and free-choice learning models that foster public engagement in the preservation of cultural heritage resources. The papers in this session also explore the benefits and challenges of using this method and provide examples of best practices for implementation. Finally, these papers speak to the impact of co-creation on the discipline and how the process increases the ability of archaeology to contribute to debates on contemporary issues.

Chairs: Elizabeth Bollwerk and Robert Connolly

Participants:

8:00 Robert Connolly—Co-creation as an Essential Means Toward Open Authority in Archaeology

8:15 T. J. Ferguson and Stewart Koyiyumptewa—Co-Creation of Knowledge about the Past by The Hopi Tribe and Archaeologists

8:30 Kimberly Kasper and Russell Handsman—The Duality of a 21st Century Tribal Museum: Archaeological Research and Museum Stakeholders at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center

8:45 Kenneth Robinson and Stephen Whittington—The Road Goes Ever On and On: Public Archaeology at Teozacoalco

9:00 Elizabeth Katherine Cruzado Carranza and Rebecca Bria —Making the Past Relevant: Finding Solutions to the Challenges of Heritage Preservation in Rural Communities in Peru

9:15 Britton Shepardson and Beno Atan—Approaching sustainable public archaeology on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): education, conservation, research, and tourism

9:30 Teresa Moyer—Building Capacity for Co-Created Digital Moviemaking through Youth Programs

9:45 Bernard Means—Promoting a More Interactive Public Archaeology: Archaeological Visualization and Reflexivity through Virtual Artifact Curation

10:00 Elizabeth Bollwerk—Open(ing) Archaeology: A Model for Digital Engagement

10:15 Holly Andrew and Bonnie Pitblado—Engaging and Empowering Citizen Archaeologists through the Co-Creative Process: A Case Study Involving the Oklahoma Anthropological Society

10:30 Matthew Reeves—Transforming Metal Detectorists into Citizen Scientists

10:45 Kimberley Popetz—Turning Privies into Class Projects

11:00 Sarah Miller, Jeff Moates and Michelle Williams—Co-Creation and the Cemetery Resource Protection Training (CRPT) Program Across Florida

11:15 Michael Barber, Carole Nash and Michael Madden—The “Public in Public Archaeology: Down from the Ivory Tower and into the Real Trenches

11:30 Mallory Haas and Elizabeth Hoag—Developing archaeological vernacular when approaching salvage in community: Decommissioning Euclid Avenue Churches in Cleveland Ohio.

11:45 Carol McDavid—Discussant

[274] Forum · THE ENGAGED CLASSROOM: DEVELOPING ACTIVITIES FOR ARCHAEOLOGY COURSES

Saturday, April 26, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Room: 8B (ACC)

Archaeology courses offer ample opportunity to engage students in creative learning. Our discipline is one of infinite curiosity and discovery, which translates well to hands-on and/or critical thinking exercises. However, designing and implementing appropriate activities can be a challenge, particularly for new instructors. It takes time to develop an activity, supplies may not be readily available, planned activities may not live up to expectations, or student interaction may be difficult to facilitate. This forum is designed to offer archaeology instructors the opportunity to discuss, brainstorm, and share classroom activities. Our goal is for attendees to leave with examples of activities that could be implemented in a variety of archaeology courses. Each discussant will present a successful activity, including sharing tips and techniques to replicate the activity. Forum attendees will then collaboratively outline activities to teach common archaeological concepts in an engaged manner, allowing participants to learn from the successes and challenges others have experienced.

Moderator: Heidi Bauer-Clapp

Participants:

Heidi Bauer-Clapp—Discussant

Robert Connolly—Discussant

Bonnie Pitblado—Discussant

Katie Kirakosian—Discussant