Using New Technologies for Education and Communication P. Bryan Heidorn & Qin Wei Biodiversity Standards Conference September 2007 Bratislava, Slovakia

2007 Goals  Advertise TDWG stardards among biodiversity community  Facilitate student (including non-expert) education  Provide Resources for outsiders  Facilities for TDWG members to share resources and questions  Recruiting Tool  Experience Archive  Post-Banquet morning attendence from hotel room

2007 Current TDWG Infrastructure  Many tools in place over past 2 years  Many technologies being used by individuals requiring institutionalization

2007 Teacher - Student Roles  Education = 2-way communication  In Web 1.0, students read professors professions.  In Web 2.0, students write and participate in Internet activities  TDWG “Students” are often PhDs  Therefore we must simplify presentations

2007 User Needs--TDWG meeting (mostly Synchronous)  Meeting schedule/abstracts with references to introduction materials  Presentation slides  Audio synchronous with the presentations  Discussion board to post the comments and questions  Audio channel to the discussion sections

2007 User Needs --Training (Asynchronous) Education resources Courseware Standards Demonstrations Exercises Discussion/Communication Where to find more materials or help

2007 Education and training. Plant Science Network Various Modes of Teaching Instructor and students local, with remote students and instructor Remote instructor and remote students Local instructor, remote studentsLocal instructor and students, with additional remote students Local instructor, local students

2007 Synchronous Broadcast Audio: VOIP Conference Skype, Broadcast Desktop Sharing: Webhuddle Video Conference TeamViewer Internet Student Scientist TDWG Presentations Instant Messege: Skype IM IRC Archive

2007 Real Time Broadcast Perth Champaign, IL Audio / Desktop Audio / desktop Audio / Desktop Archive London Berlin Costa Rico

2007 Considerations  Requires pre-production  Sound quality Must have link to house mic  Self consciousness (The tie phenomenon)  Costs (although minimal)  Requires post production  Tutorials need not be perfect

2007 Technical Support for remote “Teachers” and “Students”

2007 GSLIS Internet Radio Patch Panel

2007 IRC-Like Community Chat

2007 Technology Reviews Wiki  Open Source Portfolio  Podcasting Services  Second Life  Audio Recording and Editing for Podcasts  Google Docs  WordPress (blogs)  Microsoft SharePoint  Comparing different forum services  ArcGIS Desktop 9.2  MySpace  MediaWiki  Digital Picture sharing and posting sites  Open Journal Systems  Kepler: A Scientific Workflow product  Google Groups  Internet Scout Portal Toolkit  Google Calendar

2007 Technology reviews  Custom Search Engines  Twitter  Flickr and Photobucket  Microphones  Drupal  Widgets  LEAM  Facebook  Adobe Captivate  Yahoo! Groups  Joomla!  Plone  Greasemonkey  Zoho Projects  WebOffice & Google Apps  Alfresco  CMS - Mambo

2007 SecondLife:Fig 2: WPA Poster Exhibition at Artsplace (R. Urban)

2007 International Spaceflight Museum (Spaceport Alpha 48, 78, 24)

2007 MySpace