Notes from the "Science Project Showcase" session

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Notes from the various online projects presented in this session.

Karen James

Galapagos Live http://galapagoslife.wordpress.com

·         Survival Rival – teens compete against each other to make Darwin videos, winner goes to Galapagos.

·         Darwin Online: searches against all of darwin’s writings http://darwin-online.org.uk

·         Wanted girls who won the contest to recreate Darwin’s experience, taking notes, but doing so online and uploading photos.

NASA STS-133 Launch Tweetup http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup

·         Nasa has over 30 twitter accounts, astronauts tweet live from space.

·         People sign up for tweetup, 100-200 are selected, and get a front row seat to the launch

·         http://justin.tv/nasatweetup VAB - Vehicle Assembly Building

·         Commander of Shuttle is husband of Gabriel Giffords

·         Follow @nasa and @nasatweetup – will post link to signup

·         Follow #nasatweetup

ISS Wave http://isswave.org

·         Heavensabove website: give your location and it will tell you where to look to see the ISS in the night sky

·         @twist will send you a tweet when the ISS will pass that night.

·         Wouldn’t it be cool to coordinate a mass wave at the ISS around the world. Created a map of people waving at the ISS over the holidays.

·         ISS goes around every 90 minutes. Need to see it right at sunset to get the reflection of the suns rays.

·         Maybe schedule one for Yuri’s night, this year is the 50th anniversary (April ?DATE?)

Sophia Collins

I’m a Scientist http://imascientist.org.uk

·         See Stacy Baker’s Presentation

·         Students appear to get invested in scientists, rooting for them the way we root for designers on Project Runway.

·         Student’s ask scientists any question they want.

·         How hard would it be to set this up with Joomla or Drupal?

·         Go to website and look at archive from last year: 6,400 students asking thousands of questions.

·         Kids get engaged because of the reversal of power, students get to ask the questions and students get to decide which scientists get to move on.

·         60% of students went on the site in their own time at home.

·         Scientists got into it, staying up late making videos

·         Scientists can come from anywhere, students are primarily from UK, but other schools can apply

·         Majority of scientists are academic

Kristi Holmes

VIVO http://www.vivoweb.org

·         Semantic web platform to highlight scientists areas of expertise and interests.

·         120 people at 7 different institutions working on it.

·         So much information, vivo filters down to meaningful results

·         Harvests data from verified sources, uses RDF triples

·         For collaboration, finding resources in academia,

·         Did a search on biomedical informatics, got a list of potential collaborators

·         Profile with data from PubMed, coauthorship record

·         Each institution maintains their own data, allowing customization to the institution and what’s meaningful to the organization.

·         Open Source: see sourceforge

Adrian Ebsary

Peer Review Radio http://peerreviewradio.com

·         Interviews with scientists based around a theme, subjects are given questions before hand

·         Encourage students into journalism, teach them writing skills, train students in web design and sound editing skills

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 Science Online Project Showcase
Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Conference Session:  James, Sophia, Holmes, Ebsary (January 16, 2011), Science Online Project Showcase, Science Online 2011, Sigma Xi Conference Center, Retrieved on 2011-01-17
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