Science on a Sphere

James Madison University

Christie-Joy Brodrick, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, ISAT

Tiffany NewboldSHENAIR Program Manager, ISAT

James Madison University

The JMU Learning Experience

JMU’s approximately 17,000 students are educated to be technological problem solvers and communicators

Academic programs are integrated with business and technology to offer a unique partnership among students, faculty, business and government

Continuous integration of teaching and research at all levels of the curriculum, undergraduate and graduate

Degrees Conferred (2005):

-Undergraduate: 3,329

-Graduate: 398

-Doctoral: 51

Partnerships

Installation

Installation: Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006

Training

Benzing, Thomas (ISAT)Blatz, Sharon (Ed Programs)Brodrick, Christie (ISAT)Clemens, Claire (Library)Clemens, Richard (Ed Tech)Curtis, Chad (Art)Davis, Corbin (Geog student)Fenzel, Matthew (ISAT student)Giraytys, James (ISAT)Griffin, Oris (COE)Ingram, Richard (COE)Johnson, Elizabeth (Geology)Kander, Ronald (ISAT)

Klevickis, Cynthia (ISAT)Kraenzel, Helmut (Geography)Kolvoord, Robert (ISAT, COE)Marin, Claudia (CS MS student)Mata-Toledo, Hector (CS)Newbold, Tiffany (ISAT)Purcell, Steve (Ed Programs)Pyle, Eric (Geology)Slykhuis, David (COE)St John, Kristen (Geology)Tumer, Tiffany (ISAT)Ulanski, Stan (Geology)

Pilot Group ParticipantsWinter/Spring 2007

Presentation

We use live presenters for our demonstrations – the faculty that have been trained to use the sphere use it to enhance their lectures.

Once open to the public, we will hire a part-time person to run the sphere for various groups.

Unique Aspects

Only institute of higher education to house SOS Potential partnerships with local universities and K-12 education Located in the College of Education

Create custom content to correlate to VA SOL curriculum Develop classroom lessons to incorporate the sphere Integrate with the GLOBE program Used to train pre-service teachers

Resources at the university GIS and Computer Science Departments Students and faculty IT SHENAIR

Developing Ideas

Graduate student developing custom software to allow the user to upload a .jpeg file without needing to manipulate GIS software

Student working on understanding how to take maps from ArcGIS either directly to the sphere or to the sphere as quickly as possible.  This will involve scripting within GIS and a bit of an interface with the SOS software.

Partnerships with local community groups Collaboration with K-12 schools Air Quality simulations

Custom Content

First air quality projections by Corbin Davis, senior, Geography

Ozone AQI from EPA website

Questions