COLLABORATING TO BUILD THE DIGITAL WATER EDUCATION LIBRARY DWEL

1. COLLABORATING TO BUILD THE DIGITAL WATER EDUCATION LIBRARY DWEL Collaborative Projects in the NSDL: Institutional Collaborations Bryan L. Aivazian DWEL Project Manager Natrona County School District Casper, Wyoming

2. WHAT IS DWEL? • DWEL is a special collection of “Exemplary” resources that will be included in the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). • DWEL is being built for educators and students in K-12 and informal education settings who are interested in learning about the science, economics, and politics of water. • DWEL is being built by teams of K-12 classroom teachers, scientists, and other content experts.

3. OVERARCHING PROJECT GOAL To help K-12 educators and learners quickly find, evaluate, use, and create digital resources that support active learning aboutWater in the Earth System.

4. What Will DWEL Include? • Water Information Resources • Scientific, Economic, Policy • Water Databases • e.g. Precipitation, Stream, Groundwater • Water Images and visualizations • Water Models and Simulations • Water Activities… based on Standards • Water Assessments • Water Education Research

5. COLLABORATING PARTNERS Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Colorado state University Dr. Edward Geary, Dr. Andrew Warnock, Jaime Whitlock, Courtney Butler Natrona County School District, Casper, Wyoming Bryan L. Aivazian University of Colorado , Boulder Dr. Tamara Sumner (Center for Lifelong Learning and Design), Michael Khoo (Graduate Student - Communications)

6. COLLABORATING PARTNERS DLESE PROGRAM CENTER (DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR EARTH SYSTEMS EDUCATION) Mary Marlino (Director), Holly Devaul, Karon Kelly, Katy Ginger NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

7. DWEL COLLABORATIONS I. WORKING GROUPS • DWEL is being created specifically by and for practicing K-12 classroom teachers, students, and informal educators. • Our review process ensures that users will find high quality, grade level appropriate resources on a variety of water topics and issues.

8. DWEL COLLABORATIONS I. WORKING GROUPS (cont.) • Formalize communication mechanisms • Workflow segmented into discrete, manageable “campaigns” • Formal, web-based review process • While this distributed work force is “messy”, we believe that it does provide better representation of the target audiences that we are attempting to serve.

10. DWEL COLLABORATIONS II. ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH • Michael Khoo, doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado • Background in anthropology and communication • Ethnographic research on DWEL groups • Formative feedback on communication mechanisms • Summative descriptions of processes to guide future collection building efforts

11. DWEL COLLABORATIONS III. DLESE Program Center • Customized cataloging tool for DWEL • In-house quality review of DWEL Records • Test bed for large collection development: • Scope document • Collection level metadata • Collection review process

12. DWEL COLLABORATIONS IV. Publishing Model • National Science Teachers Association • Revising Earth: The Water Planet • Take advantage of digital resources • Some portions freely available through DWEL collection • Model of collaboration between publishers and digital libraries

13. Contact Bryan Aivazian at bryana@trib.com or Dr. Edward Geary at egeary@csmate.colostate.edu