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South Jersey Watershed Website

Volunteer Monitoring SummitNJDEP, Oct 1-2, 2004

Jess W. Everett

Rowan University

Glassboro, NJ, USA

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Overview

Distributed Sharing Communities SJ Watershed

Website

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Distributed Sharing Communities

Communities of learners sharing information over the Internet– Peers– Professional and lay– Faculty and students

Content is contributed by multiple people, at different times and from multiple locations– Links, Documents, Pictures, Evaluations, Lists,

Guides, Data,…

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Amazon.com

Listen to bits of songs View example book

pages Read/add product

reviews and ratings Offer advice on

products (“So you’d like to…”)

Submit lists of preferred products (“Listmania!”)

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Wikipedia.org

Goal - complete and accurate free content encyclopedia

Readers can – start own pages– edit existing pages– add images– comment on pages

As of January 2004, 190,000 articles in English version

(source: www.amazon.com)

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SJ Watershed Website

http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/ Acount driven, active webpage Guest and Users

– Can view most of the site Contributors

– Can contribute content, links, and data– Access to more Pages

Administrator– Manages layout and account via forms

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SJ Watersheds Home

Guests and Users

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Guest and User Pages

Watershed– Watershed websites, watershed literature

SJ Data– Data on South

Jersey watersheds Education

– Education websites or educational literature

Resources – Online watershed

resources Students

– Student activities / Student handouts

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Watershed Page - Guest

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SJ Data - Guest

•Reach Characterization Data

•Water Quality Data

•Photos

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Teacher Page - Contributor

Add content with these links

Student Activities – Teachers Copy

Quickly access related student handout

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Data Entry - Contributor

Contributors upload data and pictures for their watershed

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Resources Page - Administrator

Anyone that owns a link can edit, delete, or crosslink it

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Administrator Page

The administrator can customize the site

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Conclusions

Harness the power of the internet to share information between

– Faculty – Students– Professionals– Activists– Decision-

makers– K-12 Teachers– Citizens

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Acknowledgements

Initial development of the Engineering City Software was funded by US NSF, grant No. 9980887.

The Watershed Project is supported by the US EPA. A number of faculty have also worked on this project,

DeMond Miller, Joe Orlins, John Hasse, and Kauser Jahan.

Special thanks to all of the Rowan University students who have contributed.

http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/