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– 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

Share Fair DLESE Annual Meeting 2003, Boulder CO

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 ever-current 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 web-based 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.

Would you recommend using this

resource for students who didn’t have

much experience with technology?

So how much do you think your students really learned from this resource?

DLESE Home Pagehttp://www.dlese.org

Lamont’s Part of DLESEhttp://crs.dlese.org/