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IOC Capacity Building: TsunamiTeacher

TsunamiTeacher is a consolidated resource and training toolkit enabling stakeholders to share best practices, adapt materials locally, and develop responses for saving lives and mitigating impacts. The concept focuses on relevant training modules for different audiences, validated by specialists and continually updated by editors. Target stakeholders include media, education systems, and public/private sectors. Content covers school curricula, disaster reduction, warning systems, and mitigation. The application includes briefings and train-the-trainer sessions. Available in multiple languages, it provides operational and informational services for real-time data and communication. Contact ITIC for more information.

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IOC Capacity Building: TsunamiTeacher

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  1. IOC Capacity Building: TsunamiTeacher Laura Kong, Director, ITIC ICG/IOTWS-III, August 2006 Bali, Indonesia

  2. TsunamiTeacher • WHAT: Consolidated Resource/Training Toolkit • New, existing materials • Reliable, verified • Training modules • WHY: Enable stakeholders to: • Share existing body of • research / good practice • Adapt materials locally • Build awareness • Develop local responses • for saving lives, • mitigating impacts

  3. TsunamiTeacher • CONCEPT: • Different audiences use different materials • Training modules must be locally relevant • None of the modules use all the resources, • but different modules can utilize same materials • Specialists review and validate content • Editors continually • update, add content

  4. TsunamiTeacher • TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: • Media, Education Systems • Public (govt) / Private Sector • CONTENT: • School curricula • Teacher guides, Classroom support materials • Science, History, Events • Disaster reduction / Risk management • Legislative Frameworks • Warning Systems • Existing, developing new systems • Mitigation: Preparedness, Alerting, Hazard Risk, • Environmental/engineering, businesses, outreach

  5. TsunamiTeacher APPLICATION: Briefings, Train-the-Trainer (Public/Private - NMHS, NDMO, UN, NGO, etc) WHEN: Aug 2006: 3 modules IOTWS-III: Pre-Live 1 / participant pls End of 2006: Dynamic Content-based Web-customizeable Translations: Indonesia, Bangladesh, French, Pakistan, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

  6. Thank You For more information, contact: ITIC, Dr. Laura Kong: l.kong@unesco.org Brian Yanagi: brian.yanagi@noaa.gov Tsunami Unit, Paris, Dr. Ulrich Wolf: u.wolf@unesco.org TsunamiTeacher: tsunamiteacher@unesco.org

  7. Available Info Services • OPERATIONS: • Heads-up SMS Alerts (PTWC) - RANET • But, Official messages through GTS • Real-time Sea Level - GTS data feed • Time Series Decode/Manipulation • TideTool (v3.31) (PTWC) (auto display) • ODINAFRICA Sea Level Monitor (web) • Real-time EQ display (USGS data feed) • NEIC broadcast, GIS capable • Contact: ITIC, l.kong@unesco.org

  8. ITIC Information Services • EVENT: • ITIC Tsunami Bulletin Board • Events, models, PTWC/JMA msgs • Immediate (scientists, professionals) • Compilation: 26 Dec 2004 • Post-Tsunami Survey Data • Electronic - CD (EERI) • Hard copy (EERI - UNESCO co-publ) • Tsunami Data Repository / Archive • (web, user-friendly) - prototype now

  9. Other Information Services • EDUCATION / AWARENESS: • TsunamiTeacher • July - Pre-live (no docs), ICG/IOTWS-III • August - web, DVD • Tsunami Glossary • Tsunami flyer/poster • Tsunami, Great Waves, 2006 (electronic) • Customizeable formats • Educational Curriculum (ADRC) • Thailand Grades 4-6

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