E&O Working Group

Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group

The E&O Working Group currently consists of 11 members from iDigBio (University of Florida and Florida State University), and 21 external members from TCNs and other projects.

Mission & Scope

This working group will:

• Coordinate Education and Outreach activities among iDigBio, TCNs, and other partnering projects
• Share E&O  related resources, tools, and training with the ADBC community and beyond
• Develop E&O  activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
• Plan for and implement those activities

Members

From TCNs & Other Partnering Projects

• Mari Roberts, New York Botanical Garden (External Lead)
• Tracy Barbaro, Encyclopedia of Life
• Amy Bolton, Smithsonian Institute
• Ed Scholes, Cornell University
• Barbara Thiers, New York Botanical Garden
• Zach Murrell, Appalachian State University
• Jon Hendricks, San Jose State University
• Katja Seltmann
• Liz Shea, Delaware Museum of Natural History
• Petra Sierwald, The Field Museum
• Richard Primack, Boston University
• Mike Denslow, Appalachian State University
• Anne Basham, Arizona State University
• Travis Marsico, Arkansas State University
• Andrea Weeks, George Mason University
• Andrea Miller, The Morton Arboretum
• Andrew Hipp, The Morton Arboretum
• Rosemary Smith, Idaho State University
• Marc Cubeta, North Carolina State University
• Marie Studer, Encyclopedia of Life
• Fang Wang, Florida State University

From iDigBio

• Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Bruce MacFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History
• David Jennings, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Marcia Mardis, Florida State University
• Shari Ellis, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Libby Ellwood
• Austin Mast, Florida State University
• Gil Nelson, Florida State University
• Betty Dunckel, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Shelley James, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Jillian Goodwin, Florida Museum of Natural History

E&O WG Meetings

The E&O WG will meet Quarterly to communicate activities across projects, and plan for, and implement E&O&nbsp activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs

E&O WG Meeting Minutes

• Minutes from September 2015 Meeting

• E&O WG notes 20 August 2013

E&O Online Resources

Educational Theory and Literature For Collections-Based Learning

• BioDiversifying the Curriculum Liu, D.; CBE Life Sci Educ Vol. 8 No. 2 100-107 (2009)
  

• Bringing the Museum into the Classroom Gano, S.; Kinzler, R.; Science Vol. 331 No. 6020 pp. 1028-1029 (2011)
  

• The Current State of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research and Public Engagement Dickinson, Janis L; Shirk, Jennifer; Bonter, David; Bonney, Rick; Crain, Rhiannon L.; Martin, Jason; Phillips, Tina; and Purcell, Karen. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 291–297 (2012)
  

• Missing "Links" in Bioinformatics Education: Expanding Students' Conceptions of Bioinformatics Using a Biodiversity Database of Living and Fossil Reef Corals Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F.; American Biology Teacher, Vol. 68 No.7 p91-97 (2006)
  

• The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society Suarez, A.; Tsutsui, N. BioScience Vol. 54 No. 1 66-75 (2004)
  

• Great articles from Jisc (used to be Joint Information Systems Committee) - just a sample:
  • How digitised 'special' collections are boosting experiences of teaching and learning from JISC
  • Turn your data into a story

• Teaching science and indigenous cultures:http://livingknowledge.anu.edu.au/html/educators/02_questions.htm

• Connecting Diverse and Indigenous populations with Collections/Science Connecting natural history collections with GED Adult learners

• Barnhardt, R., & Kawagley, A. O. (2005). Indigenous knowledge systems and Alaska Native ways of knowing.Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36(1), pp. 8-23. Retrieved online 12/13/13

• Basham, M. (2012) Pathways of knowing: Integrating citizen science and critical thinking in the adult ELL classroom

• Undergraduate Biology Education Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

• Teaching Environmental Concepts with Bird Observation Data
• Social media – unleashing museum collections and their curators

Teaching Standards - National

• Next Generation Science Standards
• NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
• NARST - National Association for Research in Science Teaching
• ASTC - Association of Science-Technology Centers
• National Board for Professional Standards
• Common Core State Standards Initiative

Teaching Standards - Regional

California

Online Resources

• Understanding Science
• Understanding Evolution
• Aim-Up - Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs
• BioKIDS
  • The Critter Catalog Re-presented data from the Animal Diversity Web re-written for a younger audience:
  • App biokids app (it's about to be updated for iOS 7 and with some corrections/revisions)
  • The Center for Essential Science is the collaboration website: http://essentialscience.umich.edu/essentialscience/projects

• Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
• The Student's Discover project is looking for more museum partners! Contact Rob Dunn rrdunn@ncsu.edu for more information.
• Animal Diversity Web
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Frontiers for Young Minds: Science Edited for kids, by kids.
• Virtualfieldwork.org

Get Involved

• WeDigBio
• Notes From Nature
• Pl@ntNet Project
• DigiVol
• Herbaria @ Home
• Smithsonian Transcription Center

Facebook Pages

iDigBio

PR Resources for the E&O WG

• Marketing and PR Resources

Past E&O  Workshops

E&O  Workshop, 16-17 January 2014

• Workshop Agenda, Recordings, and Summary