Education/Telecon 2018-04-11

April 11: Monthly call

Attendees: Shelley Olds LuAnn Dahlman Margaret Mooney Carla McAuliffe Kalo Haslem Elizabeth Joyner

Agenda ESIP slides for summer meeting (Due: mid-May) Excom (Program committee) updates (if any) Summer workshop

Discussion - Take notes here:

Slides for Summer meeting: Becky might have some slides Margaret has slides - Taking lead!

Purpose:

Attract people to your committee/cluster work
Help ESIP understand what you are doing, coordinating synergistic activities

Preferred Format: 4:3 1024x768 (Standard for PPT and Keynote)

Content suggestions for slides:

Leadership and mission/goals of committee/cluster
1-2 KEY Questions that your work seeks to answer (This is really good discussion to have!)

   * Connect to the strategic plan, if it does, or how the strategic plan might need to change in the future

Activities you’ve accomplished in the past year
Activities you have planned for the coming year
Good graphics are a PLUS
Connections you have with other clusters/committees/ organizations

   * Or connections/wants that you might have

Excom (Program committee) updates (if any) Tracking of our goals/ tasks throughout the year

Done -- Implementation plan - Shelley to post

Summer Meeting update: July 18, Wednesday 11:30 - Welcome and ESIP overview 11:45 - Coding (Becky) 1:00 - LUNCH (at educator tables) 2:00 – Coding Gadgets (Kalo) - each teacher will receive a ‘gadget’ (tbd) to take back to their classroom.

   Show/tell gadgets - ozobot: how it works, video of it, show a project from class ; makey-makey; parallax robot (has sensors) (uses block coding & c coding) (to show how it works) 
   
   Setting up stations - that teachers can work at
   
   [a few minutes]

3:30 – Break 3:45 – Mini-ignite STEM Treasure-trove – 10-minute data resource talks UNAVCO Velocity Viewer CIMSS GOES-16/17 Virtual Science Fair NOAA Climate Explorer and Data Snapshots SEDAC Map Viewer ESIP/UCAR Drone Resources 4:45 – Brainstorm & Collaborate session. Work together to integrate tools into classroom teaching. [teachers talk about they learn and how to integrate] - Shelley lead 5:15 - Drone raffle (2 teachers will take home a recreational drone!) 5:20 - Evaluation and wrap-up - Margaret lead 5:30 – Adjourn

Adding in App inventor - from MIT / android and IOS - there’s weather stations that students can pull data into the app ; pull in eq data; Cody Short developed some of this - worked with Space Grant program - now working with DOD to work w/ kids ; Registration - will open -- Advertising the workshop Carla - AZ state teachers association (this went out on May 1, 2018) ; don’t plug into the NESTA facebook group. LuAnn Shelley

Also advertise the out2lunch the local teachers

Kalo - will be advertise to the North Carolina - SE region

NESTA - is doing a share-a-thon at each region if ESIP - Charlotte, NC (November 29 - Dec 1); Reno, NV (October); National Harbor, MD (mid-Nov) Kalo will try to go to the Charlotte regional NSTA (NC leadership association) (November 29 - Dec 1) - could share coding gadgets National conference (St. Louis, MO) - session due April 16 - Shelley to lead (Kalo interested )

Other gadgets - went with something that could be digital and nondigital; Sphero - didn’t go with. Pocketlab - scratch pairing - next year!