Reaction to NASA presentations

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Science On a Sphere Workshop 2007
Wrap Up Discussion

• Reaction to NASA presentations
• Discussion of possible topics for new content
• Digital Earth conference Other conferences
• Technical strand summary (John and Dave)
• Content strand summary (Carrie)
• Funding Opportunity
• Future meetings and maintaining this network
• Feedback survey
• Review of meeting objectives goals
• Status of deliverables
• Closing remarks (Carrie)

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Possible themes topics for new content

• Possible Themes
• IPY
• Corals
• Land use changes
• Living marine resources and their environments
• Climate change
• Possible topics
• Animal migrations and related environmental data
• Fish eye lens filming of underwater scenes

Create auto-play style content?
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Content Strand Summary

• Establish a method of providing iterative
  feedback to visualizers (NOAA and NASA and
  others)
• SOS is an ideal tool for displaying current, real
  and global science to the public
• Evaluations conducted so far are focused on
  assessing changes to the SOS exhibit that
  maximize the dwell time of the visitor
• We have to evaluate the content we create
• Not only for dwell time of the visitor, but
  mostly for educational impact
• How can we ensure we get this feedback from the
  users of the shared content?
• Once we understand what works, generally, NOAA
  and NASA can adopt these methods and push content
  to institutions that is the most scientifically
  accurate and current
• Intrigued by the programs that will evaluate
  impact of SOS in a formal ed program
• How complex should the concepts presented be?
• SOS institutions have a need for more than just
  the SOS content, they need additional information
  explaining the scientific phenomenon shown and
  (ideally) docent scripts
• Orienting the first time viewer
• Useful to provide to the content creators a
  summary of the misconceptions or lack of
  knowledge SOS viewers commonly have
• Annotating data sets
• Working with data layers
• User kiosks that control SOS ones that
  complement SOS

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Closing

• NOAA will have follow-up meetings with
• NASA to discuss content creation and virtual
  library possibilities
• NSF program managers of ISE and REC to discuss
  potential collaboration.
• Kate Haley-Goldman from ILI to discuss plans for
  program-level evaluation
• Which recommendations we take action on and how
  quickly will be determined by funding levels.
• Thank you all for coming
• Thanks to MSC, NASA, Jon and Joe, and
• Thanks to John!