What is DLESE (part 2)
Resources and Services for Scientists and Research Programs
Interdisciplinary Modeling for Aquatic Ecosystems Curriculum Development Workshop
Shelley Olds
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
DLESE Program Center
July 17 – 22, 2005
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DLESE may be useful to you….
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If you:
• Teach (or want to teach)…
• Develop educational resources…
• Run a research project with a public
outreach component…
• Part of an interest group organized around
an Earth or environmental theme or subdiscipline…
• Provide Earth data…
If you teach (or want to teach) …
www.dlese.org
• The DLESE Library of 10,000+ educational
resources is searchable by
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Topic
Educational
level
Resource type
Collection
Educational
standard
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If you teach (or want to teach) …
Receive an
instructor’s
personalized
report on the
effectiveness
of DLESE
resources
based on
reviews from
your own
students
If you teach (or will be teaching ) …
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• Participate in
professional devel.
workshops with National
Association of
Geoscience Teachers
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• Explore collections
of annotated education
resources from previous
workshops
• http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
If you develop educational resources …
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• Disseminate your
resource in a place where
educators look:
http://www.dlese.org
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Submit information about your resource to DLESE:
http://www.dlese.org/suggestor/index.jsp
If you develop educational resources …
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• Receive structured feedback, via the
Community Review System, from
educators and learners who have used the
resource
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• http://crs.dlese.org/
If you run a research project with a public
outreach component …
www.dlese.org
• Use DLESE web services capability to provide a
searchable ever-current list of educational links
on your topic.
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http://floridacosee.net/
• For information about DLESE web services, visit:
http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/index.jsp
If you are part of an interest group organized
around a theme or sub-discipline …
• Build a themed collection of educational
resources on your topic
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http://www.csma
te.colostate.edu/d
wel/
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• Information for DLESE collection builders:
http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/collections/collectio
n-how-to.htm
If you provide Earth or environmental data
sets …
• Network with other scientists, educators,
curriculum developers solving the puzzle
of how to use data in education
www.dlese.org
Join the Data Access Working group
http://www.dlese.org/workgroups/dawg/
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Participate in data in education workshops
http://www.dlese.org/people/dataservices/d
ataservices_2005_workshop.html
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If you provide Earth or environmental data
sets …
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Read the Using Data in
Undergraduate Science
Classrooms website &
report*
The goals are to:
• Advance effective use of
data in the classroom
• Support inquiry- and
discovery-based learning
• Identify common
practices in the use of
data
• Inform the design of
online data delivery tools
*Sponsored
by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
http://serc.carleton.edu/files/usingdata/UsingData.pdf
If you need metrics demonstrating the
effectiveness of your Scientific outreach:
The Community Review System: An online vehicle
for exchange of pedagogical content knowledge
about the Earth and environment.
Would you
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So how much do
you think your
students really
learned from
this resource?
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recommend
using this
resource for
students who
didn’t have
much experience
with technology?
www.dlese.org
If you teach, develop resources, provide data,
run outreach …
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• Annual DLESE meeting
 Skills Workshop
 Share Fair for
educational resources
 Field trip for how to
teach in the field
 Discussion sessions
among educators
facing shared
pedagogical
challenges
Share Fair
DLESE
Annual
Meeting 2003,
Boulder CO
• Check www.dlese.org
for 2006 DLESE Annual
Meeting
Field Trip to Devil’s Lake State Park, Baraboo WI at
DLESE’s 2004 Annual Meeting
www.dlese.org
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