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== Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group == | == Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group == | ||
The E&O Working Group currently consists of 12 members from iDigBio (University of Florida and Florida State University), and | The E&O Working Group currently consists of 12 members from iDigBio (University of Florida and Florida State University), and 27 external members from TCNs and other projects. | ||
===Mission & Scope=== | ===Mission & Scope=== | ||
Revision as of 14:35, 13 March 2017
Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group
The E&O Working Group currently consists of 12 members from iDigBio (University of Florida and Florida State University), and 27 external members from TCNs and other projects.
Mission & Scope
This working group will:
- Coordinate Education and Outreach activities among iDigBio, TCNs, and other partnering projects
- Share E&O related resources, tools, and training with the ADBC community and beyond
- Develop E&O activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
- Plan for and implement those activities
Members
From TCNs & Other Partnering Projects
- Tracy Barbaro, Encyclopedia of Life
- Amy Bolton, Smithsonian Institute
- Ed Scholes, Cornell University
- Barbara Thiers, New York Botanical Garden
- Zack Murrell, Appalachian State University
- Jon Hendricks, Cornell University
- Katja Seltmann
- Liz Shea, Delaware Museum of Natural History
- Petra Sierwald, The Field Museum
- Richard Primack, Boston University
- Mike Denslow, Appalachian State University
- Anne Basham, Arizona State University
- Travis Marsico, Arkansas State University
- Andrea Weeks, George Mason University
- Andrea Miller, The Morton Arboretum
- Andrew Hipp, The Morton Arboretum
- Rosemary Smith, Idaho State University
- Marc Cubeta, North Carolina State University
- Marie Studer, Encyclopedia of Life
- Fang Wang, Florida State University
- Anna Monfils, Central Michigan University
- Esther Jackson, New York Botanical Garden
- Charlie Zimmerman, New York Botanical Garden
- Lisa White, University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Cindy Skema, University of Pennsylvannia
- Abigail Benson U.S. Geological Survey
- Teresa Mourad, Ecological Society of America
From iDigBio
- Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Bruce MacFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History
- David Jennings, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Marcia Mardis, Florida State University
- Shari Ellis, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Libby Ellwood
- Austin Mast, Florida State University
- Gil Nelson, Florida State University
- Betty Dunckel, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Shelley James, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Jillian Goodwin, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Randal Singer, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Deb Paul, Florida State University
- Richard Garand, University of FLorida
E&O WG Meetings
The E&O WG will meet Quarterly to communicate activities across projects, and plan for, and implement E&O activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
E&O WG Meeting Minutes
Summit V E&O WG Discussion Session (November 2015)
- E&O WG notes
- ADBC Audience Matrix updated to include additional audiences and activities that were talked about during discussion.
- Discussion slides
- E&O WG Poster
E&O 2016 Webinar Series
The purpose of the series is to share resources, tools, and expertise centered on E&O activities for ADBC partners and the collections community. The series will begin with 6-8 webinars in 2016.
All webinars will be held at 12 pm EDT unless otherwise stated in the calendar event. All webinars will use the Adobe Connect Room: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/eo New to Adobe Connect? Check out iDigBio's Quick Start Guide.
Fall 2016 Schedule
The E&O Working group is collaborating with the Small Collections Network and BLUE (Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education) for the fall webinar series. Webinars will be once a month in the SCNet room on Wednesdays at 3:00 pm ET.
Schedule
- September 21, 2016 Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community with Anna Monfils from Central Michigan University
- October 12, 2016 Isn’t that Spatial? Discover how to geo-enable your research and teaching with today’s interactive web mapping tools Joseph J. Kerski from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
- November 16, 2016 Phylogenetic diversity comparison among Nebraska counties: example of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) Roxi Kellar from University of Nebraska at Omaha
- December 14, 2016 Reimagining professional development: Faculty mentoring networks as a model for connecting projects and teachers Sam Donovan from University of Pittsburgh
Spring 2016 Schedule
- February 17, 2016: "Make the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event an Exciting Part of your Institution’s Education and Outreach Activities" with Austin Mast (FSU Associate Professor), Libby Ellwood (FSU Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Paul Kimberly (NMNH Digitization Manager)
- February 24, 2016: "Social Media and Telepresence to Engage the Public" with Randal Singer (University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History)
- March 23, 2016: "iPlant's DNA Subway" with Jason Williams (CYVERSE)
- April 13, 2016: "The BrainScoop: Insight into Using Videos as Engaging Outreach Tools" with Emily Graslie (The Field Museum)
- May 18, 2016 "Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections" with Erica Krimmel (Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) and Travis Marisco (Arkansas State University)
- June 15, 2016 "A Small-Collections On-Ramp for Participation in the 2016 Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event" with Austin Mast and Libby Ellwood (Florida State University, iDigBio)
Upcoming E&O Workshops
Incorporating K-12 Outreach into Digitized Collections Programs
- Monday, December 05, 2016 (All day) to Tuesday, December 06, 2016 (All day) Location: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (http://qrius.si.edu/) Washington, D.C.
Resources for Collections-Based Undergraduate Education
- Scheduled for May 2017. More details coming soon.
E&O Resources
- Gooru
- National Science Teachers Association
- AP Biology Teacher Community
- Arizona State University Professional Learning Library
- Council for Advancement and Support of Education
- Open Educational Resources
- The National Science Digital Library
- TeacherTube For videos.
Meetings and Conferences to Disseminate E&O Resources and Materials
National
- National Science Teachers Association Have annual national conferences and several regional conferences each year.
Regional
- League of Environmental Educators in Florida Have annual meetings.
- FCR-STEM
Educational Theory and Literature For Collections-Based Learning
- Revolutionizing the Use of Natural History Collections in Education Powers, K.E.; Prather, A.; Cook, J.A.; Monfils, A.K.; Dierwald, P. Science Education Review, 2014.
- BioDiversifying the Curriculum Liu, D.; CBE Life Sci Educ Vol. 8 No. 2 100-107 (2009)
- Bringing the Museum into the Classroom Gano, S.; Kinzler, R.; Science Vol. 331 No. 6020 pp. 1028-1029 (2011)
- The Current State of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research and Public Engagement Dickinson, Janis L; Shirk, Jennifer; Bonter, David; Bonney, Rick; Crain, Rhiannon L.; Martin, Jason; Phillips, Tina; and Purcell, Karen. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 291–297 (2012)
- Missing "Links" in Bioinformatics Education: Expanding Students' Conceptions of Bioinformatics Using a Biodiversity Database of Living and Fossil Reef Corals Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F.; American Biology Teacher, Vol. 68 No.7 p91-97 (2006)
- The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society Suarez, A.; Tsutsui, N. BioScience Vol. 54 No. 1 66-75 (2004)
- Great articles from Jisc (used to be Joint Information Systems Committee) - just a sample:
- Teaching science and indigenous cultures:http://livingknowledge.anu.edu.au/html/educators/02_questions.htm
- Connecting Diverse and Indigenous populations with Collections/Science Connecting natural history collections with GED Adult learners
- Teaching Environmental Concepts with Bird Observation Data
- Social media – unleashing museum collections and their curators
Undergraduate Resources
Teaching Standards - National
- Next Generation Science Standards
- NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
- NARST - National Association for Research in Science Teaching
- ASTC - Association of Science-Technology Centers
- National Board for Professional Standards
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
Teaching Standards - Regional
Online Resources
- Libraries of Life
- Understanding Science
- Understanding Evolution
- Aim-Up - Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs
- BioKIDS
- The Critter Catalog Re-presented data from the Animal Diversity Web re-written for a younger audience:
- App biokids app (it's about to be updated for iOS 7 and with some corrections/revisions)
- The Center for Essential Science is the collaboration website: http://essentialscience.umich.edu/essentialscience/projects
- Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
- The Student's Discover project is looking for more museum partners! Contact Rob Dunn rrdunn@ncsu.edu for more information.
- Animal Diversity Web
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Frontiers for Young Minds: Science edited for kids, by kids.
- Virtualfieldwork.org
- Shape of Life
Citizen Science
- WeDigBio
- Notes From Nature
- Pl@ntNet Project
- DigiVol
- Herbaria @ Home
- Smithsonian Transcription Center
- iNaturalist
TCN Websites and Social Media
- iDigBio: Website,iDigBio Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo