GATI-2014-MSU DAY 8. Today we met at the Economics building all day. the program was led by Dr Becky Smith. After introductions she gave us a brief over view of "What is economics". This was very interesting, she identified "choices" as a main factor especialy in personal economics. The video on How a Waitress make a pencil was great. At noon sandwiches were delivered and we ate in the conference room. Dr. Cade Smith presented on service-learning. This is more than just a one time service project but a reciprocal learning process with reflection. Dr. Shaffett presented on personal finance, and had several handouts that could be used in class. Dr. James Wilcox presented from USM via video conference. He told us about a service-learning project to involve students in a middle school in educating elders in fraud protection. Although I teach U.S. history I will be able to incorporate some of the economic information in my lessons.