A free toolkit for developing scientific e-learning activities
Steve Ackerman, Tommy Jasmin, Tom Whittaker, Maria Vasys
CIMSS/SSEC at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Using the SOSE web site, you can:
Evaluate the effectiveness of your activities with
Reusable Evaluation Objects (REOs)
Build your own web-based learning activities with
Reusable Content Objects (RCOs)
A) User loads a web page with a learning activity, this creates an RCO
B) If HTML has Evaluation=True flag, the RCO creates an REO
C) The REO writes events to a database, representing user interaction with the RCO
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Data
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XML
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Chosen
Tool
(RCO)
HTML
Learning Activity
Explore example web-based learning activities
built with the toolkit
C)
B)
RCO
REO
DB
RCO
Host
Created
Component
Value
Channel Mixer
128.104.109.6
15 Dec 2008
13:34:22
Red image
component
Band 2, .865 um
Channel Mixer
128.104.109.6
15 Dec 2008
13:34:24
Green image
component
Band 7, 2.13 um
Channel Mixer
128.104.109.6
15 Dec 2008
13:34:26
Blue image
component
Band 1, .659 um
Channel Mixer
128.104.109.6
15 Dec 2008
13:34:37
Apply button
Clicked
Learning Activity
Access real-time satellite data in one click!
This tool integrates the Satellite VCR
RCO with real-time data sources,
allowing access to the most recent
infra-red satellite data, anywhere in the
world, by means of a simple point-andclick.
This Sizing RCO allows the user to determine
the area of features within an image (in this
case, a tabular iceberg).
T= 300
This Tracking RCO allows distance
or speed measurement over a
series of images.
This Channel Mixer RCO allows the
user to create new data from
existing data, allowing visualization
of otherwise undetectable features
(like the ice – the dark area – near
the center of this image).
All of this is freely available from SSEC/CIMSS at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/sose/