Sally Keely's e-Portfolio

Focus this academic year: Modernize student experience in online classes.

1. ✓ Summer 2024 Completely rewrite Calculus III course I have not taught since pre-2020. All new lectures, updated order of topics to match new text, revised discussion questions.
2. ✓ Aug-Nov 2024 Help get Upthegrove elected as Commissioner of Public Lands.
3. ✓ Nov 2024 Take eL134 course to upgrade my UDL certificate.
4. ✓ Dec 2024 Weave Calculus II lesson notes into lectures site.
5. Winter 2025 Study U.S. Constitution Law and NEPA Law.
6. Spring 2025 Upgrade my Python 3 skills and and maybe learn SQL. Start with 2023 Complete Python Bootcamp from Zero to Hero in Python (Certificated Udemy course with 155 lectures, 22 hours of video lessons). Goal is to have environmental science data scraping and analysis skills.
7. Upgrade my CSS programming skillset and use new code to update my CascadiaCAN website.
8. On a personal side, hike more! Spend more time in structurally complex, legacy, mature, or old growth forests. Improve my nature photography skills.

Longer-term goals:

1. Upgrade my R programming skills.
2. Earn SnagIt certification through TechSmith Academy.
3. Learn Adobe Fresco (drawing software for iPad) via Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials.
4. Update my Calculus courses to incorporate climate science and social justice activities.
5. Develop Mathematics for Sustainability (my environmental justice math course).
6. Offer Mathematics in Liturature and Film course through InteGreat Education.

Previous year's accomplishments:

For list of my activities, projects, and goals accomplished in 2023-2024 please see APG Archives.

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Rally: Forests Over Profits - No False Solutions @ "Canopy" Conference, Sep 25.

Webinar: State Forests for the Future Policy Panel, Sierra Club, Sep 24.

Sci Fri Book Club.

Webinar: Forest Protection Forum “Emerging biomass threats: BECCS, hydrogen, and wood pellet expansion in California” with Shaye Wolf, CBD, Sep 16. [Videos & Slides: https://www.sierraclub.org/grassroots-network/stop-clearcutting-ca/resources ]

Webinar: Northwest Forest Plan: Fire Stewardship, Tribal Inclusion, and Old Growth Protection, PNW FCA's Wildfire WG, Sep 10.

[Forests] Webinar Series: Forest Protection Forum Series on 2nd ed "Natures Phoenix" book Aug-Oct. [website with videos]

[Forests] Webinar Series: Yale Forest Forum Speaker Series Aug-Oct. [website with videos and slides]

[Forests] Film Screening: Crown Jewels created by Alex Haraus and team, Aug 26. [trailer]

[Politics] Training: Recount Observer Training presented by Upthegrove for CPL campaign, Aug 23.

[Educ] Webinar: No Robot Left Behind - Crafting an AI-Smart Syllabus by Gizem Karaali, Pomona College, and Lew Ludwig, Denison University, hosted by Mathematical Assoc. of America, Aug 21. [slides and resources | video]

[Maths] Webinar: Knotty Knits: A Chat about Math and Crafts by Dr. Sabetta Matsumoto of Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug 15. [similar video presentation]

[Forests] Book Club / Webinar series: Chronicles from Nature's Phoenix presentations from selected chapters of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix (2nd ed.) written by Dr. Dominick DellaSala and Dr. Chad Hanson, various speakers, hosted by the John Muir Project, Aug 14 - Nov 6. [info]
   Episode 1: Unraveling the Climate-Fire Nexus (ch 8)
   Episode 2: Birds & Mammals in Severe Fire Environments (ch 3-4)
   Episode 3: Confounding the 'Overgrown Forests' Myth (ch 11)
   Episode 4: Ecological Cost of Postfire Interventions (ch 9)
   Episode 5: Rethinking Fire Management - Beyond Backcountry Logging (ch 10)
   Episode 6: Megafires - Catalysts for Ecological Renewal (ch 2)

[Politics] Training: Ballot Curing Training presented by Upthegrove for CPL campaign, Aug 10.

[Forests] Webinar: Dangers of the Biomass Industry, a community-to-community conversation between SE and PNW anti-biomass activists hosted by National Wildlife Federation, Jul 29.

[Forests] Rally: Forests Are Our Future Rally, Terry Shrunk Plaza, Portland OR, Jun 13. [website]

[Maths] Virtual Conference: Electronic Conf on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS), Jun 7-14. [program]
Sessions I attended:
   Workshop: Quarto Course Notes - Online, Open-Source, Searchable, Modular, Future-Proof, and Easy!
   Workshop: Using Mathematical Models to Make Introductory Statistics More Relevant and Coherent
   Keynote: We Went From 2% to 42% Passing AP Stats. Here's What We Learned
   Session: decodeR - Gameful Activities for Introductory Programming
   Keynote: Classification, decision trees, and machine learning as part of secondary stats education
   from societal, conceptual, and pedagogical analysis to research on classroom experiments
   Session: Interactions in Online Courses: Challenges and Solutions for Active Learning
   Session: Writing Effective Alt-Text in Statistics and Data Science
   Keynote: The data just got real - Preparing students to use statistics beyond the classroom
   Session: Promising Instructional Practices to Support Student Learning in Introductory Statistics

[Recreation] Webinar: Hike the State presented by the Washington Trail Assoc, May 21. [info]

[Democracy] Webinar: Protecting the 2024 Election with Derek Tisler of the Brennan Center, hosted by Third Act Lawyers WG, May 21.

[Forests; Policy] Webinar: What is the NW Forest Plan & Understanding What’s At Stake (part 1 of 2) hosted by Cascadia Wildlands, May 21. [info | video]

[Maths/Books] Webinar: How to read Gödel, Escher, Bach with Scott Kim hosted by Gathering4Gardner Celebration of Mind, May 21.

[Books; Astronomy; History] Book Club: Author Talk with David Baron of American Eclipse hosted by Portland State Alumni Assoc, May 9.

[Maths] Webinar: The Rational Numbers are Not What They Seem! with Katherine Stange, Bay Area Mathematical Adventures, May 7.

[Divest] Webinar: Intro to Climate Safe Pensions & WSIB hosted by 350Seattle, May 2.

[Biomass] Webinar: Environmental Health Impacts of Wood Pellet Manufacturing, May 2.

[Enviro] Webinar: The Science of Methane Gas from Reservoirs: Rethinking Hydropower's Carbon-free Image, CRK, May 2.

[Divest] Webinar: TIAA Climate Report Exposed - How your retirement savings are financing the climate crisis hosted by TIAA-Divest! and Stand.Earth, Apr 24.

[Biomass] Webinar: Drax Policy Briefing by a Drax representative to the Agricultural and Rural Caucus of the WA Democratic Central Committee, Apr 18.

[Biomass] Webinar: California Forests Aren’t Fuel - Golden State Natural Resources’ Biomass Boondoggle with Rita Vaughan Frost. One of several Forest Protection Forums hosted by, Apr 15. [video]

[Science] Webinar: Geology and Natural History of the John Day River Basin with Dr. Nicholas Famoso hosted by Oregon Wild, Apr 3. [info]

[Enviro; Books] Webinar: Investigative Journalist Breaks Down Hanford - A Conversation with Joshua Frank hosted by Columbia Riverkeeper, Mar 27. [info]

[Enviro] Webinar: Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems with NASA-funded OPERA program hosted by WRI's Land & Carbon Lab, Mar 27. [info | video]

[Biomass] Movie Screening Event: Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? hosted by 350PDX and allies, Mar 23. [film website]

[Maths] Webinar: What If Earth Were a Cube? Exploring mind-bending geometries in search of the shortest path with Maddie Weinstein hosted by MoMath, Mar 21. [info | related videos]

[Maths] Webinar: Marjorie Rice's pursuit of convex pentagon tilers with Doris Schattschneider hosted by Gathering4Gardner Celebration of Mind, Mar 21. [info]

[Science] Webinar: Leave it to Beavers Engineering Change in a Time of Climate and Extinction with Brian Bangs hosted by Oregon Wild, Mar 20. [video & guidebook]

[Maths] Webinar: Going to Prison for a Math Error with Leila Schneps hosted by Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Mar 20.

[Forests] Webinar: MOG Rule - Far Northern 30x30 with Dr. Dominick DellaSala hosted by Wild Heritage, Mar 18.

[Math History] Webinar: Martin Gardner, Victor Meally, and Owen O’Shea with Colm Mulcahy hosted by Gathering4Gardner, Mar 17.

[Policy/Legislation] Webinar: Legislative Session 2024 Overview with Alex Ramel (LD-40) hosted by Bellingham WA Chapter of the Climate Reality Project, Mar 14.

[History/Books] Book Club: American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron. Discussion hosted by Portland State Alumni Assoc., Mar 15 - May 3. [forum]

[Enviro] Movie Screening: Atomic Bamboozle hosted by Meaningful Movies, Mar 11. [film website]

[Enviro/Books] Book Club: Not Too Late led by Kristin Edmark, hosted by TAWA, Feb 20. [book website]

[Maths] Webinar: Pentominoes with Kate Jones hosted by Gathering4Gardner, Feb 18.

[Enviro] Hearing: NXT Energy's Rail Yard Proposal in Port Westward, held by Columbia County Planning Commission OR, Feb 14.

[Forests; Policy] Webinar: The Future of Our Forests - Taking Action on the NW Forest Plan and Old-Growth Forest Amendments hosted by Oregon Wild, Jan 24. [info | video]

[Maths] Webinar: Twenty Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube with Tomas Rokicki hosted by Gathering4Gardner Celebration of Mind, Jan 21. [info]

[Policy] Webinar: New Path for Environmental Protection & Justice, Washington Green Amendment, Jan 18.

[Enviro] Hearing: NXT Energy's Rail Yard Proposal in Port Westward, held by Columbia County OR, Jan 10.

[Educ] Training: Fundamentals of Equitable Decision Making (EDM), Clark College, Jan 5.

[Policy] Webinar: WA 2024 Campaign Kickoff, 350 WA Civic Action Team, Jan 3.

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Attend as many of these events as I can:

• Gathering4Gardner Celebration of Mind (CoM) (monthly on 21st)
• Gathering4Gardner Sunday Social virtual math talks with discussion
• Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Science Pub
• Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) oral arguments (calendar)
• WWU College of the Environment's Environmental Speaker Series
• WWU College of the Environment's Toxicology and Societies Speaker Series

AND participate in regular meetings with:

• Clark College's Mathematics Department (every 1-2 weeks Wed @3; #educ)
• Clark College's UDL Committee (4th Mon @11; #deija)
  
• Columbia Riverkeeper's No Methanol group (1st Wed @6; #enviro)
• Cowlitz County Climate group (2nd Wed @5; #enviro)
• Divest Washington (4th Wed @10; #divestment) plus meet w/ legal team, campaign team
• No Biomass in WA, a.k.a. Cascadians for Clean Air and Water CCAW (biweekly Thu @2; #forests)
• PNW Forest and Climate Alliance (held bimonthly in even months, 2nd Wed @11; #forests)
• PNWFCA Field Survey WG
• PNWFCA Washington State Lands WG (last Thu @7; #forests)

AND try to attend official public meetings of, and present testimony to:

• WA State Board Natural Resources (BNR/DNR) (1st Tue @9; #forests)
• WA DNR Carbon & Forest Management WG (2nd Wed @9; #forests)
• WA State Investment Board (WSIB) (approx every-other 3rd Thu @9:30; #divestment)

AND sometimes participate in meetings with these groups:

• Environmental and Climate Caucus (ECC) of WA Democrats (3rd Thu @7)
  
  

For list of activities prior to 2024 please see PD Archives.