Education/Telecon 2016-12-13

Attendees: Margaret Mooney, LuAnn Dahlman, Preston Lewis, James Acker, Shelley Olds

Attendees: Margaret Mooney, LuAnn Dahlman, Preston Lewis, James Acker, Shelley Olds

Notes December 13, 2016

Update eBook testing & outreach efforts

• Portland had 20 participants - interesting cross-section of teachers. Physics, physical science, engineering.

Interested in modifying the drone

• 1-2 people have completed the recruitment survey
• 4-5 people have said that they’re interested in testing out the activities - probably a challenge to ask them so close to the holidays
• AGU: there has been excitement around drones and people make the connection to natural hazards
• Send something out to re-invite them to have a tele-date to respond to an activity
• Shelley has to still send it out to the Columbus group
• Action Item: Shelley to send out the email.
• What to do with the alpha version of the eBook? Would like to show a more cohesive version at the Winter Meeting. Would be good to go through and create a more consistent format.
• Feedback getting in the workshop: formal & after school club teachers like seeing the metadata that goes with the lesson plan.
• Action Item: Shelley & LuAnn to schedule a call to get to the “next version” Shelley to suggest a time.

Discussion of NSTA session proposals to coordinate time slots through NESTA

• NSTA session proposals due: Jan 17th
• Is NSTA worth it next year? Better to focus on the national ones instead of all of the regional conferences
• If there is an opportunity to speak at a conference with informal/afterschool educators, that would be a good group to connect with. Unfamiliar with that type of conference.

Compile & distribute Solar Eclipse resources?

• There is a lot of stuff out there. It may be redundant.
• Pat may do a 10 minute webinar right before the Solar Eclipse.
• Action Item: Margaret will be de facto person to invite presenters for 10 minute monthly webinars
• Will discuss in more depth about the mechanics/logistics when at the Winter Meeting

Proposed Drone Workshop - Earth Science Educator’s Rendezvous

• ESIP Education has a 3 half days worth of workshops there
• Maybe try to find shorter sessions - 15 hours worth of content is a lot
• Do we need a set of drones to do this?
• Action Item: Shelley to double check on the timing

Winter meeting session on brief tool webinars: Is schedule finalized?

• 4:00PM Wednesday
• We have four 10 minute talks thus far. A little room for more

• NASA - Preston potentially
• Maybe someone from Giovanni?
• NEO - Stephanie
• Gozar - Margaret
• Drones - Shelley

• Asking for a title, few words, bio, and email
• Action Item: Margaret to follow up with the 10 minute talks