[FUN_Mail] Review your textbook for ERIN!

[Richard Olivo]

Dear FUN colleagues,

SfN's web portal to resources for teaching, Educational Resources in
Neuroscience (ERIN), needs more reviews. Members of FUN who are also
members of SfN are in a particularly good position to create these reviews,
since we are already accustomed to sharing advice with our colleagues about
teaching neuroscience. Although everyone is busy, posting a review takes
only a few minutes. You will need to type in the name of your course,
select its academic level from a menu, write a few sentences about the
strengths and the weaknesses of the resource, and choose a rating from 1 to
5 stars. It's easy!

And there's a further benefit besides helping your colleagues: the lottery
to award an iPad mini to a randomly selected new review is still open
because the required 50 new reviews have not yet been received. To help pry
this iPad from the grip of SfN and place it in the hands of a colleague
(possibly yourself!), please review something that almost all of us use: a
textbook from one of your courses. To do so is simple:

1. Go to erin.sfn.org. Log in using your email address and SfN membership
number or password.
2. Click the Advanced Search button on the home page. From the dropdown
menu under Resource Types, select "Book - Academic or Textbook" and click
the Search button.
3. A list of books will be returned, in alphabetical order by title. If
your textbook is on the list, click its title to go to the page describing
it. Click the tab for "Ratings & Reviews" and you will see a prominent link
to "Review this Resource." Fill in the sections, click "Submit my review,"
and you've finished. Your colleagues will appreciate your advice, and an
iPad mini might soon be on its way to you.

(If your textbook is not already in ERIN's database, you can add it by
clicking the link in the blue navigation bar, "Suggest a Resource." After
providing a brief description, which an ERIN editor will later expand or
modify, you will have an opportunity to review the new listing.)

Are the memories from this academic year still fresh? Then tell us about
how your textbook worked out. And if you've decided not to participate,
would you instead send me a brief email <rolivo at smith.edu> telling me why?
The ERIN editors and I are puzzled about why FUN members haven't been more
active on ERIN, and we'd value your advice.

With thanks and best wishes,

Richard

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Richard F Olivo, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College
Project Director, Educational Resources (ERIN), Society for Neuroscience
    44 College Lane, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063
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