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When:          Friday, January 26, 2007

Where:         Stavros Center for Economic Education

                     4202 East Fowler Avenue CEE 101

                     University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

For Whom: Teachers of Principles-level courses and High School AP

The Gus A. Stavros Center of Florida State University invites you to participate in this third annual day-long workshop on the teaching of introductory economics at the college and high school level. This extraordinary workshop will feature three of the nation’s most creative and successful instructors of college-level economics: Michael Salemi from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Cecil Bohanon from Ball State University, and Martha Olney from the University of California-Berkeley.  The conference registration fee of $50 includes lunch and refreshment breaks.

Register Online at

https://learningforlife.fsu.edu/learningforlife/register/start.cfm?s_mstr_seq_num=7118

Hotel Information

If you need hotel accommodations, we recommend Embassy Suites (www.embassysuitesusf.com) which is located near the Stavros Center at 3705 Spectrum Blvd.  You may call (813) 977-7066 to make reservations.  The room rate is $149 single and $159 double. In order to assure these rates, you must make your reservations by December 26, 2006 and ask for the Florida State Stavros Center conference rate.

Additional Information

If you would like additional information, contact Joe Calhoun (Phone: 850-644-7723; jcalhoun@ fsu.edu)

Tentative Workshop Schedule (Friday, January 26)

Morning   9:00 a.m. -12:10 p.m.

Session 1         Michael Salemi

                        "Clickonomics: Using Student Response Pads to Promote Active Learning in a

                        Large Enrollment Principles Course"

Session 2         Cecil Bohanon 

                        “Developing Engaging and Lively Examples: A Key to Economic Education”

12:10 – 1:10 p.m.        Lunch

Afternoon   1:10 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Session 3         Shelby Frost, Georgia State University

                        “Using Advertising to Reinforce Economic Concepts”

Session 4         Martha Olney

"A Teacher’s Talk"

Session 5         Concluding Panel and Discussion-Session Leaders will make brief summary remarks and workshop participants will share their ideas and comments.

                        John Pisciotta, Baylor University

                        "Using Your Digital Video Recorder to Generate PowerPoint Video Clips"

                        James Gwartney and Joe Calhoun, Florida State University

“Using John Stossel News Clips to Enrich Your Class”

Tawni Ferrarini, Northern Michigan University

“The New Common Sense Economics Web Site”

About the Session Leaders

Michael Salemi is Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis.  His recent projects deal with strategies for reforming the college-level principles of economics course and using discussion of classic and current articles to teach undergraduate economics. In 2005, Edward Elgar published Discussing Economic: A Classroom Guide to Writing Discussion Questions and Leading Discussions authored by Salemi and W. Lee Hansen.  Michael Salemi has been involved with teacher education since 1974. In recent years, he was chair of the Committee on Economic Education of the American Economic Association. He is currently co-PI for an AEA-NSF project to promote interactive teaching strategies in college level economics courses. He was awarded the Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction by the University of North Carolina in 1987 and again in 2004, the Bower Medal by the National Council on Economic Education in 1998, and the Villard Research Award by the Association of Economic Educators in 2001.

Cecil Bohanon is a Professor of Economics at Ball State University. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Wilmington College (Ohio) and his PhD from Virginia Tech. He has published over 25 refereed professional articles notes and comments in such journals as American Economic Review, The National Tax Journal, Independent Review and Public Choice.  He has written over 70 popular articles, monographs and newspaper editorials that have appeared in the Freeman, the Wall Street Journal and the Indianapolis Star .  His research interests include public choice, applied microeconomics and immigration. He is a frequent winner of teaching awards, served as a faculty advisor for several campus organizations and directed numerous student independent studies.  He is an advisor for the Heartland Institute, and a senior fellow at the Indiana Policy Review Foundation.  He is married to Barbara Alvarez, Associate Professor of Music Education at Ball State University, they have two sons. 

Martha Olney is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.  She received her Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley and now regularly teaches large enrollment courses in Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, and U.S. Economic History, as well as undergraduate
research seminars and the graduate pedagogy seminar.  She is the recipient of Distinguished Teaching
Awards from U.C. Berkeley (2003) and University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1991), as well as the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History (1997).  She is the author of Macroeconomics (co-authored with Brad DeLong, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 2006), of Essentials of
Economics (co-authored with Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Worth Publishers, 2007), and of the forthcoming Economics as a Second Language (Wiley, 2007).