Agriculture Supercourse Training

Fish for Deans

6-13 December 2009

http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/Event/Event.aspx?ID=193

Bibalex

 

Supercourse at WHO collaborating Center in Pittsburgh:

 

LaPorte    Linkov    Lovalekar    Shubnikov   Padilla    Huang    Sauer   Ardalan    Shihsani  Marler  Dodani   Husseini   Trufanov   Songer   Choubnikova  Sa    Rico Verdin    Acosta   Sekikawa   Aaron     

 

http://www.bibalex.org/supercourse/

Fishermen and Fisherswomen:

 

Rehab Ibrahim <rehabibrahim520(at)gmail.com>

Haidy Tewfick <haidytewfick(at)gmail.com>

Shaimaa Samir <shaimaa.samir87(at)gmail.com>

Shaimaa Rashwan <alshaimaa.rashwan(at)gmail.com>

 Lubna Abdelazize <Lubna.Abdelazize(at)gmail.com>

Mahmoud Eldeeb mahmoud.mahmoudsalem.eldeeb9(at)gmail.com

Mohamed Elkomy <moh.a.elkomy(at)gmail.com>

 Sherif Kandil <sherifkandil.eng(at)gmail.com>

Eslam Ezz <eslam.m.ezz(at)gmail.com>

Library of Alexandria - www.bibalex.org

Dr. Ismail Serageldin

The Center for Special Studies and Programs

http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/Event/Event.aspx?ID=193

Mohamed El-Faham

Science Supercourse Team in Alexandria

Marwa Abdelrassoul, Yousra Sobeih, Israa Elfayoumi et al.

 

 

Day 1

Sunday, 6 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Library of Alexandria Staff Introduction on first BA Supercourse Student Training Program at the Library of Alexandria in Agriculture.

“Introduction to the Supercourse by Dr. Shubnikov: Overview of Training Objectives”.

10:00-11:00 Science Supercourse and Youtube
11:00-12:00

Supercourse structure and updates

Mazen’s Presentation on "fishing for deans". Short Methods of Operations. Internet searching tips

13:00-14:30 Sources of information on agriculture on the internet http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/  

Teaching lessons by Marwa Abdelrassoul

14:30-16:30 “Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

 

 

Day 2

Monday, 7 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

USDA.gov: important source of agriculture information http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

10:00-11:00

Keeping track of your contacts: Basic Supercourse database infrastructure (Discuss importance of having on hand complete contact information and emails)

11:00-12:00

Ethics and methodologies for email interactions

(Review email etiquette at http://www.emailreplies.com/)http://iwillfollow.com/email.htm   
http://careerplanning.about.com/od/communication/a/email_tips.htm
http://www.emailreplies.com/#5templates
Teaching by Yousra Sobeih
13:00-14:30

Searching for agriculture contacts: Exercise 1

“Supervised searching under the direction of Dr. Shunikov”
14:30-16:30

Question and answer session.

“Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

 

Day 3

Thusday, 8 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Creation of a list of Egypt and USA agriculture institutions

http://www.uscollegesearch.org/agriculture-colleges.html

http://www.touristinformationdirectory.com/college-university/university_list_college.htm#UT 

10:00-11:00

Finding the top cited agriculture journals and teach on the journal watch with a task to do this over the course of the year.

http://archive.sciencewatch.com/july-aug2006/sw_july-aug2006_page1.htm

11:00-12:00 Supercourse GM foods lectures, overview
13:00-14:30 Independent work
14:30-16:30

Progress report, discussion of challenges

“Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base 

 

Day 4

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Creation of European list of agriculture institutions

http://www.trace-sc.com/agri/europe.htm 

10:00-11:00

Work with Agriculture Track of Science Supercourse web page

11:00-12:00
13:00-14:30 Independent work
14:30-16:30

Progress report, discussion of challenges

“Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

 

Day 5

Tuesday, 10 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Creation of a list of agriculture institutions for Africa and Middle East. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agricultural_universities _and colleges

http://www.fao.org/ - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

 

10:00-11:00

Creating the list of E-mails of fishers as well of their advisors for future correspondence 

11:00-12:00 Preparation of report on the Deans and Ministers fishing
13:00-14:30 Independent work
14:30-16:30 Progress report, discussion of challenges;“Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

 

Day 6

Friday, 11 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Discussion of Independent projects: Each student picks one area in the field of agriculture and searches for contacts in that specific area

(List of fields within agriculture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture)

Mohamed Elkomy presentation "Tips in  fishing".    Eslam Ezz presentation "Dean’s Fishing in Alexandria"   Shaimaa Samir  presentation  "My experience with searching the Internet"

10:00-11:00

Independent work

11:00-12:00 “Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

Day 7

Saturday, 12 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Creation of a list of scientists of The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

The CGIAR Mission http://www.cgiar.org/centers/bios.html

10:00-11:00

Start writing a paper on Agriculture deans wishing project

11:00-12:00 Practical exercises with Arabic links of Science Supercourse to have a comments from native speakers
13:00-14:30 Independent work
14:30-16:30 “Fishing” for deans, Ministers of Health, research scientists  in Agriculture,  entering information into Data Base

 

Day 8

Sunday, 13 December 2009

 

9:00-10:00

Creating of The List of Land Grant Universities by State with E-mail of members

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university

10:00-11:00

Comments, Future plans & Follow up

11:00-12:00 Group Photo