Title: ESSE 21 meeting
1The Digital Library for Earth System
Education www.dlese.org
- ESSE 21 meeting
- Holly Devaul
- 05 February 2004
2What 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)
3Whats the need?
- To answer
- National calls for reform
- Educator requests for resources
- Leveraging
- New understandings of learning
- New advances in technology
4Promoting 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
5Why 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)
6What 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
7What 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
8Who 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)
9Aligning development with users needs
- User input is central to every stage of library
development - Participatory design
- user focus groups,
- beta testing,
- community meetings
10Using DLESE
- Suppose you are interested in teaching about
ozone in your undergraduate atmospheric science
class, using data and visualizations as a
component
11- Browse by subject, grade level,resource type or
collection
12Keyword here
13Keyword-only search returns 106 results
14Refining your search...1. Add grade level 2.
Add resource type to your criteria
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15Fewer more targeted results
16View full description
17 18Data and imagery for each exercise
19Multiple thematic collections
20DLESE Reviewed Collection
- Multiple pathways or review systems
- Community Review System
- Allows for community participation
- Digital Water Education Library (DWEL)
- NASA ESE Reviewed Collection
- JESSE
21Reviewed 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
22Submit a teaching tip or review
23Read a teaching tip or review information
24Community Review System
A Tally of User Ratings
A set of tips for classroom use
25Search by educational standards
26News and opportunities
- Read or contribute
- newsworthy items
- such as
- Conferences
- Workshops
- Employment
- Grants
- DLESE Matters
27Contributing 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
28An 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
29www.dlese.org