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Subject:

SF/F/H resource

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David-Glenn Anderson <[log in to unmask]>

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:24:20 EST

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Thomas Seay  is  Coordinator of SF Projects, University of Kansas  
_http://www.aboutsf.com/_ (http://www.aboutsf.com/)  
He writes:  Our first major project is a speaker's  bureau, and I've appended 
an announcement on that subject to the end of this  email.  I hope those of 
you who are  interested in speaking about SF will join in, but I'm mostly 
writing to ask for  assistance in our next project. 
We're hoping to build a  major curriculum resource for classes about 
speculative fiction at all academic  levels, from elementary school right up through 
university study.  This will include Accelerated Reader  tests for young 
students, study guides and handouts on major SF novels, and just  about anything 
else you can imagine being useful in a classroom, all built and  maintained on a 
wiki. 
This wiki will soon be  opened up to the public, but to get it off on the 
right foot, I want to set up a  few example pages to establish the basic 
structure of the wiki and to  demonstrate what a curriculum might look like.  Would 
anyone here be willing to help out  with this -- say, by uploading a study guide 
you've already created for a SF  novel, posting a reading list for a SF 
class, etc.? 
If so, please drop me a  line off-list at [log in to unmask] 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rff/post?postID=6hiRPs1UZ70zV9cCufN6p9BBy1ZhoryzTUzvOk1F5Llvd057
B5wb2za3HKjr9bpI27nS2WAijA)  and I'll set you up with the wiki  information! 
Thanks, and best wishes,  -Thomas Seay 
--------------- 
When libraries, schools,  businesses, and other institutions need to hire a 
speaker to discuss science  fiction and fantasy, they too often don't know how 
to contact a qualified author  or even where to begin looking. 
The Speculation Speakers  and Media Resource program hopes to change that. 
Speculation Speakers is the  first major project of AboutSF, an organization 
funded in part by SFWA and  hosted at the University of Kansas.  Through 
AboutSF's website, SF authors  and other qualified speakers can post and maintain 
their own online profiles in  an easily searchable database.  The  program also 
actively seeks engagements for enrolled  speakers. 
Joining the Speculation  Speakers bureau is free, and all SFWA members will 
be accepted. The bureau has  three speaking topics:  Science Fiction -  
General, Fantasy - General, and Horror - General.   Simply submit your information at 
the  following address: 
_http://www.aboutsf.com/speakers/apply.php_ 
(http://www.aboutsf.com/speakers/apply.php)  
Speculation Speakers also  serves as a press list for journalists seeking 
comment from SF authors.  To join the press list, be sure to  choose "Available 
for Press Inquiries" as one of your speaking  topics. 
In order for  a speaker to be listed, he or she has to opt-in to join the 
bureau.  If you  have any speakers you're familiar with who you'd like to enroll, 
would you mind  dropping them a line to letting them know we exist? 
AboutSF is  part of Center for the Study of Science  Fiction at the 
University of Kansas _http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/_ (http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/)  
The  aboutsf.com website also could use some advice on what primary and 
secondary  teachers and librarians would like as an on-line course in science 
fiction and a  one-day workshop that might travel around to various sites on  
invitation.  
We have our  own concepts, in my case drawn from nearly forty years of 
teaching SF courses of  various kinds (I have a fondness, for instance, for a genre 
course that  discusses science fiction through a survey of where it came from 
and how it  developed into what it is today, as my six-volume ROAD TO SCIENCE 
FICTION  illustrates, and I think this background is essential to anyone 
attempting to  teach SF; but I don't want to enforce my preferences on everyone 
else).    
For the  on-line course we will try to work out academic credit, but it may 
be easier to  offer English credit than Education credit.  Would this be a 
problem?   Should we go the extra mile to obtain the imprimatur of the School of 
Education?  David Brin has suggested  academic credit for the one-day workshop. 
  
We can  explore this possibility, but I have doubts that anyone will give 
credit for one  day, or even two days.  Would a "certificate of attendance" from 
the Center  for the Study of Science Fiction be useful?  Let us know what you  
think.  Jim Gunn 


-- posted by David-Glenn  Anderson

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