Forgetting the Tsunami: Preventing this via online education

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Forgetting the TsunamiPreventing this via
online education

• Presented by
• Dr. Jon Baggaley
• Richard Giroday

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The Tsunami Project

• One focus
• Four complimentary topics
• Four unique team approaches
• Four unique educational resources

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Development Overview
http//giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/tsun
amiprojectbrainstorm.htm
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The MDDE615 Challenge

• Teams of three
• Strengths and Weaknesses
• Specified Topic
• Communication challenges
• Short Time Frame
• Jan. 17th groups identified
• Feb. 7th proposal due
• Feb. 21st Prototype due
• Mar. 4th Evaluation

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Group C Tsunami, HealthDevelopment Overview
http//giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/heal
thbrainstorm.htm
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Critical Challenge

• Narrowing the focus
• Niche
• Target Audience
• Educational Value
• Meet expectation criteria

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Criteria

• Educational in a formal sense, or of public
  interest in a broad informative sense.
• Original
• Technically competent clean html code, value
  added features

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Four valued resources

• Educational Issues
• Scientific Aspects
• Health Issues
• International Aid

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Educational Issues Group A Darren Cannell,
Lynette Carmichael, Suzanne McCullagh

• Goal to aid distance educators, in their
  Tsunami teachings.
• Three key categories
• educational tools lesson plans, teaching aids,
  etc
• overview of current educational reconstruction
  efforts
• Searchable databank of online Tsunami-related
  resources.

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Scientific Aspects Group B Lori Johnston,
Celynn Klemenchuk, Ferdinand Krauss

• Scientific Explanation
• Plate Tectonics
• Wave Physics
• Human History
• Biosphere Impact
• Prediction Systems
• Visual Site Map

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Health Issues Group C Richard Giroday, Anita
Dumont, Margaret Werdermann

• Two target audiences
• Survivors, Travellers
• Tsunami Health Issues
• Compendium of disease characteristics
• Traveling to the affected regions
• Warnings,Preparation, Survival
• Media/Search Engine Research
• Accessibility Issues
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

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International Aid Group D Prisca Campbell,
Maisaa Tubail, Joanna Wiebe

• Better Aid
• Find compatible disaster recovery organizations
  and form alliances to stretch resources or to
  address community needs that your organization
  cannot.
• Faith based
• United Nations Organizations
• Red Cross
• Non-sectarian groups

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Human Factorsin Educational Technology
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The Tsunami Project Research and Development
Issues in International Online Delivery

• Technical consolidation and amalgamation of the
  four web sites onto one server.
• Maintain the uniqueness, integrity, and look/feel
  of each of the four sites.
• Evaluation/comparison of accessibility of
  different online techniques in urban and remote
  parts of Asia
• Search Engines as measurement tools for research.

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