Using New Technologies for Education and Communication

P. Bryan Heidorn & Qin Wei

Biodiversity Standards Conference

September 2007Bratislava, Slovakia

2007

Goals Advertise TDWG stardards among biodiversity

community Facilitate student (including non-expert) education Provide Resources for outsiders Facilities for TDWG members to share resources and

questions Recruiting Tool Experience Archive Post-Banquet morning attendence from hotel room

2007

Current TDWG Infrastructure Many tools in place over past 2 years Many technologies being used by individuals

requiring institutionalization

2007

Teacher - Student Roles Education = 2-way communication In Web 1.0, students read professors

professions. In Web 2.0, students write and participate in

Internet activities TDWG “Students” are often PhDs Therefore we must simplify presentations

2007

User Needs--TDWG meeting(mostly Synchronous)

Meeting schedule/abstracts with references to introduction materials

Presentation slides Audio synchronous with the presentations Discussion board to post the comments and questions Audio channel to the discussion sections

2007

User Needs --Training(Asynchronous)• Education resources• Courseware• Standards• Demonstrations• Exercises• Discussion/Communication• Where to find more materials or help

2007Education and training.Plant Science Network

Various Modes of Teaching

Instructor and students local, with remote students and instructor

Remote instructor and remote students

Local instructor, remote studentsLocal instructor and students, with additional remote students

Local instructor, local students

2007

Synchronous BroadcastAudio:VOIP

ConferenceSkype, Broadcast

Desktop Sharing:Webhuddle

Video ConferenceTeamViewer

Internet

Student

Student

Scientist

TDWGPresentations

Instant Messege:Skype IM

IRC

Archive

2007

Real Time Broadcast

Perth

Champaign, IL Audio / Desktop

Audio / desktop

Aud

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Des

ktop

Archive

London

Berlin

Costa Rico

2007

Considerations Requires pre-production Sound quality

Must have link to house mic Self consciousness (The tie phenomenon) Costs (although minimal) Requires post production Tutorials need not be perfect

2007

Technical Support for remote “Teachers” and “Students”

2007

GSLIS Internet Radio Patch Panel

2007

IRC-Like Community Chat

2007

Technology Reviews Wiki

Open Source Portfolio Podcasting Services Second Life Audio Recording and Editing for

Podcasts Google Docs WordPress (blogs) Microsoft SharePoint Comparing different forum services ArcGIS Desktop 9.2

MySpace MediaWiki Digital Picture sharing and posting

sites Open Journal Systems Kepler: A Scientific Workflow

product Google Groups Internet Scout Portal Toolkit Google Calendar

2007

Technology reviews Custom Search Engines Twitter Flickr and Photobucket Microphones Drupal Widgets LEAM Facebook Adobe Captivate

Yahoo! Groups Joomla! Plone Greasemonkey Zoho Projects WebOffice & Google Apps Alfresco CMS - Mambo

2007

SecondLife:Fig 2: WPA Poster Exhibition at Artsplace (R. Urban)

2007

International Spaceflight Museum (Spaceport Alpha 48, 78, 24)

2007

MySpace