The Digital Library
for Earth System Education (DLESE):
What it can do for Educators
and Research Programs
Kim Kastens & Neil Holzman
February 23, 2005
MG&G Seminar, L-DEO
DLESE may be useful to you….
• If you teach (or want to teach)…
• If you have developed an educational resource…
• If you run a research project with a public outreach component…
• If you are part of an interest group organized around an Earth or
environmental theme or sub-discipline…
• If you provide Earth data…
• Lamont’s role in DLESE
If you teach
(or want to teach):
• Library of 9000+
educational resources
searchable by topic,
educational level, and
resource type
www.dlese.org
If you teach (or want to teach):
• Instructor’s
personalized
report on the
effectiveness of
DLESE resources
based on reviews
from your own
students
If you teach
(or want to teach):
• Focused professional
development workshops in
association with National
Association of Geoscience
Teachers
• Collections of annotated
education resources from
previous workshops
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
If you teach
(or want to teach):
• Annual DLESE meeting
Share Fair DLESE
Annual Meeting 2003,
Boulder CO
– Skills Workshop
– Share Fair for educational
resources
– Field trip for how to teach in
the field
– Discussion sessions among
educators facing shared
pedagogical challenges
http://www.dlese.org/annualmtg/annmtg_dl.html#2005
Field Trip to Devil’s Lake State Park, Baraboo WI at
DLESE’s 2004 Annual Meeting
If you have developed an
educational resource:
• Dissemination of your
resource in a place where
educators look
To submit your URL to DLESE:
http://www.dlese.org/suggestor/index.jsp
If you have developed
an educational
resource:
• Structured feedback, via the
Community Review System,
from educators and learners
who have used the resource
crs.dlese.org
If you run a research project with a public
outreach component:
• Use DLESE web
services capability to
provide a
searchable evercurrent list of
educational links on
your topic.
For information about DLESE web
services, visit:
http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/index.jsp
http://floridacosee.net/
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
http://www.csmate.colostate.edu/dwel/
Information for DLESE collection builders:
http://www.dlese.org/libdev/collections_overview.html
If you provide Earth or environmental data sets:
Network with other scientists,
educators, curriculum
developers trying to solve
the puzzle of how to use
data in education
• Data Access Working
group
• Data in education
workshops
http://www.dlese.org/workgroups/dawg/index.html
http://www.dlese.org/people/dataservices/dataservices_2005_workshop.html
If you provide Earth
or environmental
data sets:
•
Using data in Undergraduate
education website & report*
*
Sponsored by the National Science Digital
Library (NSDL), parent organization of DLESE
http://serc.carleton.edu/files/usingdata/UsingData.pdf
Lamont’s Role
in DLESE:
• The Community Review
System: Gathering,
aggregating &
disseminating user
feedback about the
effectiveness of webbased educational
resources
For pdf of Kim Kastens’ JGE paper
about CRS: (large file)
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/DLESE/collections/
jge_paper/kastens_jge05.pdf
Submit a
review
Lamont’s Role in DLESE:
• The Community Review System: An online vehicle for
exchange of pedagogical content knowledge about the
Earth and environment.
So how much do
you think your
students really
learned from
this resource?
Would you
recommend
using this
resource for
students who
didn’t have
much experience
with technology?
DLESE Home Page
http://www.dlese.org
Lamont’s Part of DLESE
http://crs.dlese.org/