ESSE 21 meeting

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The Digital Library for Earth System
Education www.dlese.org

• ESSE 21 meeting
• Holly Devaul
• 05 February 2004

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What is DLESE?

• A place to find quality teaching and learning
  resources about the Earth system
• Support and services for anyone interested in
  learning about the Earth
• A community-led effort, funded by the National
  Science Foundation (NSF)
• The geoscience member library of the National
  Science Digital Library (NSDL)

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Whats the need?

• To answer
• National calls for reform
• Educator requests for resources
• Leveraging
• New understandings of learning
• New advances in technology

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Promoting an Earth system perspective

• Earth is a complex and dynamic entity
• Synergistic physical system of interrelated
  phenomena
• Governed by complex processes involving the
  geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere
• No process or phenomenon occurs in complete
  isolation from other elements of the system

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Why a digital library?

• About 75 percent of students said they used the
  Internet first, then went to a professor or
  librarian for assistance, and consulted print
  sources last.
• Chronicle of Higher Education,
• 3 October 2002 (online edition)

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What does DLESE offer?

• Web-based learning resources about the Earth
  system

• Lesson plans, computer and lab activities, data,
  visualizations, instructor guides
• Resources are contributed and described by
  educators and scientists
• Multiple themed collections, reviewed
  collections

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What does DLESE offer?

• Services to help users effectively create and use
  materials
• Search by educational standards find and
  contribute teaching tips and reviews attend
  workshops and events
• Interfaces and tools to allow exploration of
  Earth data sets

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Who is building DLESE?

• Individual K-12 and university educators and
  scientists contribute resources to community
  collection
• Partnerships create thematic collections
• Community governance guides library development
• Core services develop library components
• Collections, Community, Data, Evaluation
  Services, and the DLESE Program Center (DPC)

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Aligning development with users needs

• User input is central to every stage of library
  development
• Participatory design
• user focus groups,
• beta testing,
• community meetings

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Using DLESE

• Suppose you are interested in teaching about
  ozone in your undergraduate atmospheric science
  class, using data and visualizations as a
  component

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• Browse by subject, grade level,resource type or
  collection

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Keyword here
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Keyword-only search returns 106 results
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Refining your search...1. Add grade level 2.
Add resource type to your criteria
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Fewer more targeted results
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View full description
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• The resource itself

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Data and imagery for each exercise
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Multiple thematic collections
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DLESE Reviewed Collection

• Multiple pathways or review systems
• Community Review System
• Allows for community participation
• Digital Water Education Library (DWEL)
• NASA ESE Reviewed Collection
• JESSE

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Reviewed resources demonstrate

• Scientific accuracy
• Pedagogical effectiveness
• Ease of use for students and faculty
• Complete documentation
• Power to inspire or motivate students
• Robustness/sustainability as a digital resource
• Importance or significance of topic

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Submit a teaching tip or review
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Read a teaching tip or review information
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Community Review System
A Tally of User Ratings
A set of tips for classroom use
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Search by educational standards
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News and opportunities

• Read or contribute
• newsworthy items
• such as
• Conferences
• Workshops
• Employment
• Grants
• DLESE Matters

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Contributing to DLESE

• Submit an individual resource, teaching tip,
  review or news event
• Develop a collection
• Nominate a resource for review
• Participate in DLESE Annual Meeting
• 11-13 July 2004

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An ESSE Collection?

• Benefits
• Exposure, distribution, peer-review, recognition
• Support
• Technical assistance for all aspects of
  collection development
• Cataloging training
• Linkchecking reports
• support_at_dlese.org catalog_at_dlese.org

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www.dlese.org

• support_at_dlese.org