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 50^th 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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Various notes taken from the conference session on science education with Stacy Baker's biology students:

• Jack – into games, not many learning games out there. – homeVSschool technology use: what’s allowed in the different contexts, home is about socialization, school is about productivity, need to intersect the two. (Media needs to relate to him, technology, chemistry “New Social Network of Atoms Creates New Compounds”)
• Michael – into vlogs, recording things on a research boat – students want hands-on activities, looking for internships, homeVschool: school tumbler account and home personal tumbler account to distinguish uses of productivity and socialization. PLoS was a great resource.
• Carl – into Classroom blogs, likes tumbler sciokid.tumblr.com. Baker sends opportunities all the time and preparing for scio11. Was inspired by Baker showing him how people around the world were seeing her website
• Paul – into wikis, allow students to express themselves, science online wiki, Proj: you have to put yourself out there, read newspapers and follow links to find things, NYT and Wired, (Interest: be interesting enough and esoteric as well, be terse without complicated jargon)
• Naseem– into science literacy, how media , nature blog (Adult readers) rely on word of mouth for students to find the blog
• Samantha – encourage more student blogs, students communicate at  a level appropriate to other students, Green Science, global warming, (What about Adult readers) adults can still read her blog, but she is targeting her
• Alexandra – believer in personalizing education, more into humanities, used podcasts and youtube, youtube.com/vlogbrothers, - teenagers want to feel like they are doing something, they want to participate and contribute. homeVSschool: the more competitive college search gets, the more she uses her laptop at home for educational purposes, looking for opportunities to improve chances of getting into colleges, MSNBC, Google News for facts, This Week in Tech Podcast, Relatability (how something relates to me) is important for having something catch her eye, Carl Zimmer cut to the chase about Duck Mating by calling it Duck Sex
• Justin – blogging, using blogs in a variety of ways in science learning, frogs with the citric fungal disease and blogged it
• Rachel Ward – chemistry teacher, using online tools to make the classroom a more exciting place
• I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out of Here: imascientist.org.uk, website where students chat with scientsts and vote for their favorites, least votes get evicted, connected students in remote areas to scientists around the world, allows quieter students to participate more in class discussions, what about when scientists give wrong answers (they should say “I don’t know”), why isn’t there a USA version of this? (Kiome Jarrets: People need to complain. State by state engagement)
• Shanahan – research online science communication, science education professor, works to get students interested in science, reduce their fear, arsenic life story, had students choose a blog and follow it for a month and write a book report on what the blog was about and a lesson sequence for future classes on the blog, students found science blogs were interesting, easy to understand, students used blog the same way they used books and magazine-no engagement no using comments, need bloggers who will give students an interactive experience,
• Audience Comment: everone is trying to find balance between professional and personal technology use, separating and integrating.