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 support@dlese.org www.dlese.org DLESE may be useful to you…. 13 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 14 Topic Educational level Resource type Collection Educational standard www.dlese.org 15 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 ) … www.dlese.org • Participate in professional devel. workshops with National Association of Geoscience Teachers 16 • Explore collections of annotated education resources from previous workshops • http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ If you develop educational resources … www.dlese.org • Disseminate your resource in a place where educators look: http://www.dlese.org 17 Submit information about your resource to DLESE: http://www.dlese.org/suggestor/index.jsp If you develop educational resources … www.dlese.org • Receive structured feedback, via the Community Review System, from educators and learners who have used the resource 18 • 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. 19 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 www.dlese.org http://www.csma te.colostate.edu/d wel/ 20 • 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/ 21 Participate in data in education workshops http://www.dlese.org/people/dataservices/d ataservices_2005_workshop.html www.dlese.org If you provide Earth or environmental data sets … 22 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 www.dlese.org So how much do you think your students really learned from this resource? 23 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 … 24 • 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 25 support@dlese.org