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Forgetting the Tsunami: Preventing this via online education

Forgetting the Tsunami: Preventing this via online education. Presented by Dr. Jon Baggaley Richard Giroday. The Tsunami Project. One focus Four complimentary topics Four unique team approaches Four unique educational resources. Development Overview.

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Forgetting the Tsunami: Preventing this via online education

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  1. Forgetting the Tsunami:Preventing this via online education Presented by Dr. Jon Baggaley Richard Giroday

  2. The Tsunami Project • One focus • Four complimentary topics • Four unique team approaches • Four unique educational resources

  3. Development Overview http://giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/tsunamiprojectbrainstorm.htm

  4. 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

  5. Group C – Tsunami, Health:Development Overview http://giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/healthbrainstorm.htm

  6. Critical Challenge • Narrowing the focus • Niche • Target Audience • Educational Value • Meet expectation criteria

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

  8. Four valued resources • Educational Issues • Scientific Aspects • Health Issues • International Aid

  9. Educational Issues – Group ADarren 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.

  10. Scientific Aspects – Group BLori Johnston, Celynn Klemenchuk, Ferdinand Krauss • Scientific Explanation • Plate Tectonics • Wave Physics • Human History • Biosphere Impact • Prediction Systems • Visual Site Map

  11. Health Issues – Group CRichard 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

  12. International Aid – Group DPrisca 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

  13. Human Factorsin Educational Technology

  14. 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.

  15. php, cgi/perl, blogs, security issues, etc).

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