The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE):

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The Digital Library for Earth System Education
(DLESE)

• What it can do for Educators
• and Research Programs

Kim Kastens Neil Holzman February 23, 2005 MGG
Seminar, L-DEO
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• DLESE may be useful to you.
• If you teach (or want to teach)
• If you have developed an educational resource
• If you run a research project with a public
  outreach component
• If you are part of an interest group organized
  around an Earth or environmental theme or
  sub-discipline
• If you provide Earth data
• Lamonts role in DLESE

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• If you teach
• (or want to teach)
• Library of 9000 educational resources searchable
  by topic, educational level, and resource type
• www.dlese.org

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If you teach (or want to teach)

• Instructors personalized report on the
  effectiveness of DLESE resources based on reviews
  from your own students

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• If you teach
• (or want to teach)
• Focused professional development workshops in
  association with National Association of
  Geoscience Teachers
• Collections of annotated education resources from
  previous workshops
• http//serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/

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• If you teach
• (or want to teach)
• Annual DLESE meeting
• Skills Workshop
• Share Fair for educational resources
• Field trip for how to teach in the field
• Discussion sessions among educators facing shared
  pedagogical challenges
• http//www.dlese.org/annualmtg/annmtg_dl.html2005

Share Fair DLESE Annual Meeting 2003, Boulder CO
Field Trip to Devils Lake State Park, Baraboo WI
at DLESEs 2004 Annual Meeting
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• If you have developed an educational resource
• Dissemination of your resource in a place where
  educators look
• To submit your URL to DLESE
• http//www.dlese.org/suggestor/index.jsp

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• If you have developed an educational resource
• Structured feedback, via the Community Review
  System, from educators and learners who have used
  the resource
• crs.dlese.org

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If you run a research project with a public
outreach component

• Use DLESE web services capability to provide a
  searchable ever-current list of educational links
  on your topic.
• For information about DLESE web services, visit
• http//www.dlese.org/dds/services/index.jsp

http//floridacosee.net/
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If you are part of an interest group organized
around a theme or sub-discipline

• Build a themed collection of educational
  resources on your topic

http//www.csmate.colostate.edu/dwel/
Information for DLESE collection
builders http//www.dlese.org/libdev/collections_
overview.html
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If you provide Earth or environmental data sets

• Network with other scientists, educators,
  curriculum developers trying to solve the puzzle
  of how to use data in education
• Data Access Working group
• Data in education workshops

http//www.dlese.org/workgroups/dawg/index.html h
ttp//www.dlese.org/people/dataservices/dataservic
es_2005_workshop.html
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• If you provide Earth or environmental data sets
• Using data in Undergraduate education website
  report
• Sponsored by the National Science Digital Library
  (NSDL), parent organization of DLESE

http//serc.carleton.edu/files/usingdata/UsingData
.pdf
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• Lamonts Role
• in DLESE
• The Community Review System Gathering,
  aggregating disseminating user feedback about
  the effectiveness of web-based educational
  resources
• For pdf of Kim Kastens JGE paper about CRS
  (large file)
• http//www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/DLESE/collections
  /jge_paper/kastens_jge05.pdf

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Lamonts Role in DLESE

• The Community Review System An online vehicle
  for exchange of pedagogical content knowledge
  about the Earth and environment.

Would you recommend using this resource for
students who didnt have much experience with
technology?
So how much do you think your students really
learned from this resource?
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DLESE Home Page http//www.dlese.org Lamonts
Part of DLESE http//crs.dlese.org/