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. 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 Share Fair DLESE Annual Meeting 2003, Boulder CO

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. 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 Submit a review

14. Lamont’s Role in DLESE: The Community Review System: An online vehicle for exchange of pedagogical content knowledge about the Earth and environment. 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?

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