What DLESE does for undergraduates

Katy Gingerginger@ucar.edu

Marianne Weingroffmarianne@ucar.edu

• Undergraduate: choosing science (meteorology) as a career

• Graduate school: careers other than research and forecasting

• Professional employment: What I do now

Katy – meteorologist, instructional designer, & digital librarian

• Supported by the National Science Foundation• Offers free access to quality online learning

materials (tutorials, lesson plans, visuals, data)• The geoscience member library of the

National Science Digital Library

www.dlese.org

• Supports a broad audience of educators and learners: K-12, university, informal education (museums), the public

www.dlese.org

What does DLESE offer?

Tutorials, simulations, data visualizations, lab activities, etc.

Collections about specific topics (COMET for meteorology) 

Learning resources about the Earth System

DLESE may be useful to you…

• If you are a student, TA, or teacher looking for good online resources

• If you develop an educational resource

• If you are looking for jobs, workshops, conferences, etc.

• Topic• Educational

level• Resource

type• Collection• Educational

standardwww.dlese.org

Library of 12,000 educational resources searchable by:

If you are looking for good resources

If you are looking for good resources

A simulation

http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/katrina/keytopics.html

A portal

A tutorial

How do resources get into DLESE?How do resources get into DLESE?

1. Users suggest resources that they like

We review them & add (‘catalog’) them into DLESE

http://www.dlese.org/suggestor/index.jsp

How do resources get into DLESE?How do resources get into DLESE?

2.Users with many resources create a collection

Submit collection to DLESE for evaluation

DLESE is more than a library of resourcesDLESE is more than a library of resources

DLESE is more than a library of resourcesDLESE is more than a library of resources

DLESE is more than a library of resourcesDLESE is more than a library of resources

http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/index.html

If you plan to be a TA or professor

Preparing for an Academic Career in the GeosciencesJuly 27-30, 2006, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career

June 7-12, 2006, College of William and Mary

Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences

May 31-June 4, 2006, College of the Siskiyous

Teaching Public Policy in the Earth SciencesApril 20-23, 2006, American Geophysical Union

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/workshops.html

If you plan to be a TA or professor

Adding DLESE search to a websiteAdding DLESE search to a website

Search over your areas of interest

Pre-formed searches

It’s in your interface – looks just like your site

Our questions for you…

How do you use the internet for your classwork?

Do you have trouble finding good online resources? Have you ever used a digital library?

What services could a digital library provide that would be helpful?

• Am the project lead/instructional designer – run the project and figure out HOW to teach the material

• Work with staff meteorologist and subject matter experts from around the world who provide the content and work with the ID to write the ‘script’

• Work with graphic artists, who create the graphics and animations

• Hand over the materials to the programmers and testers

Marianne – instructional designer

EUMETSAT sponsors a team of meteorology instructors and me (ID) to create CD- based and online modules that help forecasters improve their forecasting skills by making better use of satellite data

Ultimate goal: To help African farmers know when to plant, help transportation industries (planes, ships…), etc.

Modules are used by:• RMTC instructors to augment their teaching• Forecasters as self-paced learning in their offices

International work is fascinating!

ASMET project