Education/Telecon 2019-06-26
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
June 26, 2019 @ 2pm ET
Participants: Becky Reid, Margaret Mooney, Megan Carter, Shelley Olds, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Katy Rico, LuAnn Dahlman, James Acker
Agenda:
1. Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich - ESIP-hosted Data Management Training Clearinghouse (DMTC) (http://dmtclearinghouse.esipfed.org)
- Wants to enhance the Clearinghouse by coming up with an assessment framework for the content in the clearinghouse
- DMTC contains metadata for resources on research data management, tasks associated with the research and data life cycle, etc.
- Includes videos, MOOCs, only metadata NOT resources themselves
- In terms of assessment framework, interested in getting educators to join discussions of what kinds of assessments are feasible
- Traditional learning objectives & outcome or something else??
- ESIP Summer Meeting Session: Assessment Frameworks and Dimensions for Educational & Training Resources, Wednesday July 17th at 10:30 am: See more info at https://sched.co/PtPh.
- Budget Talk
2. Review 2019 budget (in Education Committee Team Drive)
- Dream a bit about 2020: Brainstorm ideas, no decisions yet
- Is NSTA regional worth the monetary investment?-- low numbers
- Thinking about summer meeting content/how to advertise to regional teachers
- Survey/solicit feedback from teachers that we reached out to this year to see why they did not sign up?
- Was it the content? Registration? The announcement?
- Next meeting in Vermont
- Identify regional meeting where ESIP will be, advertise summer meeting to teachers there
- October 24th meeting in Vermont; see below
- Survey/solicit feedback from teachers that we reached out to this year to see why they did not sign up?
- October 24th meeting in Vermont; applications due in July
- Margaret to take the lead
- Redirect other (NSTA regional) funds?
- Adopt a school in the DC area to revisit each Winter Meeting?
- Tailored to teacher’s needs
- Use as a testing ground for ESIP Ed content/materials
- Potential schools?
- Fund teachers to go to Goddard to work with Jim Acker/Giovanni?
3. Teacher Workshop Update
- 12 registrants currently
- Spinning up Jupyter
- Need questions from LuAnn/Shelley to put on the feedback forms/surveys
- Do pre- and post-
4. Next Meeting - Scheduled for July 18th - Skip or reschedule?
- Skip but email about budget