The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE):

1. The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): What it can do for Educators and Research Programs Kim Kastens & Neil Holzman February 23, 2005 MG&G Seminar, L-DEO

2. 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… • Lamont’s role in DLESE

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

4. If you teach (or want to teach): • Instructor’s personalized report on the effectiveness of DLESE resources based on reviews from your own students

5. 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/

6. Share Fair DLESE Annual Meeting 2003, Boulder CO 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.html#2005 Field Trip to Devil’s Lake State Park, Baraboo WI at DLESE’s 2004 Annual Meeting

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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/

10. 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

11. 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 http://www.dlese.org/people/dataservices/dataservices_2005_workshop.html

12. 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

13. Submit a review Lamont’s 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

14. Lamont’s Role in DLESE: Would you recommend using this resource for students who didn’t have much experience with technology? So how much do you think your students really learned from this resource? • The Community Review System: An online vehicle for exchange of pedagogical content knowledge about the Earth and environment.

15. DLESE Home Page http://www.dlese.org Lamont’s Part of DLESE http://crs.dlese.org/