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GeoBrain: Cutting Edge Teaching with New Tools Workshop

Learn about the NASA Earth Observing System Higher Education Alliance (GeoBrain) and how it can benefit you in cutting-edge teaching. Request images from around the globe, collaborate in curriculum development, and contribute your photos to our online textbook. Join us on February 11, 2008 for the workshop.

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GeoBrain: Cutting Edge Teaching with New Tools Workshop

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  1. What theNASA Earth Observing System Higher Education AllianceCan Do For You Cutting Edge Teaching with New Tools Workshop February 11, 2008 Mark Abolins (mabolins@mtsu.edu), Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University

  2. What is the NASA Earth Observing System Higher Education Alliance (“GeoBrain”) Request different kinds of images from around the globe! Collaborate in curriculum development and implementation! Contribute your photos and images to our free on-line textbook! Organization

  3. What is GeoBrain?Slide 1 • Web-based tools for on-line data delivery and image processing • Headquartered at the George Mason University (GMU) Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) • Liping Di, Meixia Deng, and several additional investigators at GMU • Nine education partner institutions around the nation • The overall project is $1M+ but my part is $20K

  4. What is GeoBrain?Slide 2Activities at Middle Tennessee State University • REQUEST images and maps. On-line and hardcopy delivery of presentation-quality images and maps of any location on Earth. • COLLABORATE in the development of geographic information system (GIS) –based curricula specific to YOUR disciplinary and geographic interests. • CONTRIBUTE your photos and images to our image-rich, free, on-line undergraduate textbook Physical Regions and Features of the United Stateswww.mtsu.edu/~mabolins/geomorph.htm

  5. REQUEST images and maps.Whats different . . . • Different kinds of images • Presentation-quality cartographic products • Poster-sized hardcopies for high-impact educational uses Cloud cover Urban areas Landcover/ Seafloor features Landforms Night lights (populated places)

  6. Costa Rica from space. (A Blue Marble Next Generation image) Visit http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ to learn more about Blue Marble.

  7. Costa Rica: landforms.

  8. Geology based on mapping compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/19/metadata.faq.html

  9. COLLABORATEin curriculum development and implementation • Will develop curricula for any level of higher education • Will develop curricula specific to your disciplinary and geographic interests • Will build curricula around any software, web portal, or data viewer

  10. CONTRIBUTEyour photos and images to our free on-line textbook! Physical Regions and Features of the United States Text by James Henry, Ph.D. Illustrations by Miller Wylie and Mark Abolins www.mtsu.edu/~mabolins/geomorph.htm

  11. Summary • Please . . . • REQUEST imagery for one geographic area (and use it in an educational setting) • CONTRIBUTE one photo of an American landscape or important geologic features • COLLABORATE in curriculum development

  12. Acknowledgements • NASA Earth Observing System Higher Education Alliance (Liping Di and Meixia Deng, George Mason University) • Tennessee Space Grant Consortium • NSF DUE0431652 to Thomas Cheatham and co-investigators (Middle Tennessee State University)

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