1. 1 South Jersey Watershed Website Volunteer Monitoring Summit NJDEP, Oct 1-2, 2004 Jess W. Everett Rowan University Glassboro, NJ, USA

2. 2 Overview Distributed Sharing Communities SJ Watershed Website

3. 3 Distributed Sharing Communities Communities of learners sharing information over the Internet – Peers – Professional and lay – Faculty and students Content is contributed by multiple people, at different times and from multiple locations – Links, Documents, Pictures, Evaluations, Lists, Guides, Data,…

4. 4 Amazon.com Listen to bits of songs View example book pages Read/add product reviews and ratings Offer advice on products (So youd like to…) Submit lists of preferred products (Listmania!)

5. 5 Wikipedia.org Goal - complete and accurate free content encyclopedia Readers can – start own pages – edit existing pages – add images – comment on pages As of January 2004, 190,000 articles in English version (source: www.amazon.com)

6. 6 SJ Watershed Website http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/ Acount driven, active webpage Guest and Users – Can view most of the site Contributors – Can contribute content, links, and data – Access to more Pages Administrator – Manages layout and account via forms

7. 7 SJ Watersheds Home Guests and Users

8. 8 Guest and User Pages Watershed – Watershed websites, watershed literature SJ Data – Data on South Jersey watersheds Education – Education websites or educational literature Resources – Online watershed resources Students – Student activities / Student handouts

9. 9 Watershed Page - Guest

10. 10 SJ Data - Guest Reach Characterization Data Water Quality Data Photos

11. 11 Teacher Page - Contributor Add content with these links Student Activities – Teachers Copy Quickly access related student handout

12. 12 Data Entry - Contributor Contributors upload data and pictures for their watershed

13. 13 Resources Page - Administrator Anyone that owns a link can edit, delete, or crosslink it

14. 14 Administrator Page The administrator can customize the site

15. 15 Conclusions Harness the power of the internet to share information between – Faculty – Students – Professionals – Activists – Decision- makers – K-12 Teachers – Citizens

16. 16 Acknowledgements Initial development of the Engineering City Software was funded by US NSF, grant No. 9980887. The Watershed Project is supported by the US EPA. A number of faculty have also worked on this project, DeMond Miller, Joe Orlins, John Hasse, and Kauser Jahan. Special thanks to all of the Rowan University students who have contributed. http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/