A Vision of K-12 Students

I found this video on YouTube and thought you all might enjoy it, if you haven't seen it already.

Sharing videos online

If you weren't at Shelly's talk today - then you missed a very cool dogfish video that sparked a very cool idea.

Hopefully as a result of this summer's HV workshop we are going to have schools sharing information about their local aquatic habitats on a shared My Maps.

As a result of the pressure to provide content on the bus, we are going to start collecting videos and other media content.

Since it would be great to have the bus content available in some format to teachers online, we can post media that is collected on My Maps based on where it came from (for example - Shelly's dogfish video from wherever in the GoM that she did her research).

This would allow students and teachers to not only explore the GoM by viewing the different aquatic habitats in the watershed - but also by seeing some of the science that is happening throughout the GoM.

Another possible layer would be schools that participated in LabVenture!

Besides collecting the content (which we will already be doing for the bus programming), this is relatively easy to do.

When I set up the account for teachers to share their aquatic habitat info on a My Maps - I'll be sure to set it up in a way that we can easily create different Maps (Science in the GoM), or layers, that can be shared online!

Bus Programming

As we all know, in order to get Bangor students to the Cohen Center, we need to come up with programming for the bus, and soon! Here is a running list of ideas. Feel free to add/remove as appropriate. Also, as far as saving video clips, etc, there is a folder on the shared drive Education>CCIL>Bus Programming. Throw everything in there so we all have easy access to it!

-venue for BWET on the way home

-21st century information literacy and visual literacy need to be developed

-video bios of presenters/scientists as well as other marine science related careers

-"Let's Go Lobstering" video

-Blue Planet GOM segment

-videos on GoogleEarth and how it works

-what to expect when they arrive at GMRI

-explore NOAA resources, tie in to watersheds

-survey validity of websites

-interactive trivia games

-take CCIL experiences & processes and apply them to other learning experiences

-student input:

*different colored cards?

*maybe clickers in the next round

Things to keep in mind:

-don't want to burn the kids out before they get here

-align with MLRs

We will discuss this with AGILe on August 13th, please come with ideas!

YouTube annotations

Nifty stuff! Very easy to use and intuitive! I can see lots of uses for this.

Here is the bridge peregrine falcon footage I've been working up.