South Jersey Watershed Website

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South Jersey Watershed Website

• Jess W. Everett
• Rowan University
• Glassboro, NJ, USA

Volunteer Monitoring Summit NJDEP, Oct 1-2, 2004
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Overview

• Distributed Sharing Communities
• SJ Watershed Website

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Distributed Sharing Communities

• Communities of learners sharing information over
  the Internet
• Peers
• Professional and lay
• Faculty and students
• Content is contributed by multiple people, at
  different times and from multiple locations
• Links, Documents, Pictures, Evaluations, Lists,
  Guides, Data,

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Amazon.com

• Listen to bits of songs
• View example book pages
• Read/add product reviews and ratings
• Offer advice on products (So youd like to)
• Submit lists of preferred products (Listmania!)

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Wikipedia.org

• Goal - complete and accurate free content
  encyclopedia
• Readers can
• start own pages
• edit existing pages
• add images
• comment on pages
• As of January 2004, 190,000 articles in English
  version

(source www.amazon.com)
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SJ Watershed Website

• http//nebula.eng.rowan.edu85/
• Acount driven, active webpage
• Guest and Users
• Can view most of the site
• Contributors
• Can contribute content, links, and data
• Access to more Pages
• Administrator
• Manages layout and account via forms

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SJ Watersheds Home
Guests and Users
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Guest and User Pages

• Watershed
• Watershed websites, watershed literature
• SJ Data
• Data on South Jersey watersheds
• Education
• Education websites or educational literature
• Resources
• Online watershed resources
• Students
• Student activities / Student handouts

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Watershed Page - Guest
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SJ Data - Guest

• Reach Characterization Data
• Water Quality Data
• Photos

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Teacher Page - Contributor
Student Activities Teachers Copy
Add content with these links
Quickly access related student handout
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Data Entry - Contributor
Contributors upload data and pictures for their
watershed
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Resources Page - Administrator
Anyone that owns a link can edit, delete, or
crosslink it
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Administrator Page
The administrator can customize the site
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Conclusions

• Harness the power of the internet to share
  information between
• Faculty
• Students
• Professionals
• Activists
• Decision-makers
• K-12 Teachers
• Citizens

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Acknowledgements

• Initial development of the Engineering City
  Software was funded by US NSF, grant No. 9980887.
• The Watershed Project is supported by the US EPA.
• A number of faculty have also worked on this
  project, DeMond Miller, Joe Orlins, John Hasse,
  and Kauser Jahan.
• Special thanks to all of the Rowan University
  students who have contributed.

http//nebula.eng.rowan.edu85/