Welcome to the Association for Science Teacher Education

Exhibiting
Interested in exhibiting or advertising at the 2009 ASTE conference? Click here to get more information and register.

Interactive Papers at the ASTE Meeting
An Interactive Paper allows ASTE attendees to share information and exchange ideas with other in ways that are more interactive than occurs during traditional paper presentations
Format
An Interactive Paper Session consists of multiple presenters whose work is grouped according to a common theme. A moderator guides the session and monitors the time. Each presenter gives an oral overview of his or her work of 2-3 minutes in duration. After these introductions, presenters will be dispersed around the meeting room to designation tables. Audience members can freely visit the Interactive Papers of interest. The final 15 minutes is a whole group activity. The presenters form a panel, the moderator acts as the discussant, and everyone present can discuss the collection of work.
Presenters
Your introduction should entice audience members to visit your display. Use your small window of time to communicate the focus of your work, its relevance to science teacher education, and the information you would like to distribute to and receive from others. A display board will allow you provide visual highlights of your work. You can obtain your display boards from the Registration table.
Papers
You ought to have multiple hard copies of your paper available to distribute. Making your paper also available in an electronic format is encouraged. Consider how you might use your paper as the foundation for your interactions with others. In other words, what you talk about and what appears in your paper, but what you say does not need to be identical. Instead, the two can complement each other. Verbal interactions and the written paper are different modes of communicating. The actual paper and the associated exchanges serve similar, but not identical, purposes. This becomes the distinctive feature of Interactive Papers.
Panel
To bring closure to the session, the moderator will bring the presenters to the front of the room to form a panel. Audience members and/or the moderator will then pose questions to the entire group. This gives an opportunity for synthesis and comparison. At the conclusion of the panel discussion, the session will be formally over.

Poster Presentation Specifications
Poster boards will be provided.
36" x 48" corrugated board with slit-scored hinges forming a three-panel display.

Conference Location
Marriott Hartford Downtown
200 Columbus Blvd
Hartford, Connecticut 06103-2807
Phone: 1-860-249-8000
Toll-free: 1-866-373-9806

To make a reservation with the ASTE room rate of $135/night, go directly to:
http://marriott.com/bdldt?groupCode=astasta&app=resvlink
Reservations can also be arranged by calling the Marriott directly at 860-249-8000.
The ASTE group rate code is astasta.

Thursday Morning Fun Run
It's time to start gearing up for the ASTE Fun Run/Walk in Hartford. We hope you will join us for this pre-conference social activity! Click here to download registration form.
Questions? Contact Tisha Morrell at morrell@up.edu

Saturday Night Music
Ready to relax? Join fellow conference attendees in Crush, the hotel lounge for live music of
Songs & Tales of Ships & Whales. Music starts at 7pm.

Ground transportation between Bradley International Airport (BDL) and the conference hotel in Hartford:
Register and pay for round trip ground transportation at https://www.doublea.com/airportshuttle/. Anyone planning to travel to the ASTE conference from Bradley Airport is strongly encouraged to take advantage of this method of getting to and from the conference hotel, as the only other option is to travel by taxi (approx. $45 each way).

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If you pre-registered for ground transportation from Bradley Airport to the ASTE conference hotel, you should have received an email from Double A transportation services (heather@doublea.com) on January 2.

If you did not receive an email confirmation, YOU NEED TO CONTACT HEATHER AT DOUBLE A: at 860-563-3126 ext 254 or by email (heather@doublea.com) before you begin travel to Hartford.
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The shuttle service will still take reservations even though the December 19 deadline has passed. Send an email to Heather@doublea.com and provide the following info:

Name:
Billing Address:
Cell Phone number:
Flight info (date, time, airline & flight #):
Special instructions:
Credit card info:
If not comfortable submitting credit card via email then fax to Heather at 860-563-1821

The price is $50 round trip -- almost half the cost of a taxi.

Local Attractions
Local Hartford attractions include the Capitol, Front Street , Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Old State House, UConn, Cabela's, great restaurants and shopping.

Dying City January 8 – February 8