NOAA's SOS Users Collaborative Network Workshop Report
NOAA's SOS Users Collaborative Network
November 17-19, 2009
Boulder, CO
Summary
NOAA’s Office of Education and the and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in partnership with the Fiske Planetarium and Science Center hosted a workshop for the NOAA Science On a Sphere Users Collaborative Network. This was the third such workshop. You can view the reports from the two previous workshops here
The workshop took place in Boulder, CO on November 17-19, 2009. The workshop was designed to bring together the diverse group of institutions that have NOAA’s Science On a Sphere (SOS) system on public display to collaborate and create best practices on the educational uses of the sphere.
There were 91 participants in attendance representing 39 different organizations, including informal science centers, federal, agencies, universities, formal education programs, and exhibit and visualization specialists. The participants included representatives from nearly every NOAA line office, three federal agencies (Department of Energy, NASA, NOAA), and four different countries (United States, Finland, Korea, Mexico).
Major outcomes from the workshop include: sharing and discussion of content for SOS that was recently created or is in the process of being created; revision of guidelines for creating content, initial findings of SOS program-wide evaluation presented to the Network; presentation of latest updates to the technical system and the dataset library; discussion of new technologies available or forthcoming for improving user interactivity with the system; best practices for integrating K-16 education programming shared; and initial best practices for docent presentations on SOS developed. You can view the goals and objectives for the workshop for more detail about the intended outcomes.
If you have any questions about the workshop you can contact John McLaughlin of NOAA's Office of Education at John.McLaughlin@noaa.gov.
Workshop Materials
- Goals and objectives of the workshop
- Agenda
- Participant List
- SOS Network Directory
- SOS Dataset Wishlist (generated at workshop)
- Pictures by Byunghwan “Hwan” Lim
- Pictures from Will von Dauster
Video of the Workshop
Video with audio from most components of the workshop is available here – link to http://sos.noaa.gov/support/flash/workshop/.
Presentations and Notes
(According to the order they appear in the agenda)Day 1 — November 17 @ NOAA Earth System Research Lab (ESRL)
| Topic | Presenter and Presenting Organizer | Associated Files |
| WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | Notes from this session | |
| Workshop Welcome | John McLaughlin, NOAA Office of Education | None |
| SOS Program Updates | Bill Bendel, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) | None |
| ESRL & OED Welcomes to participants | John Schneider, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Christos Michalopoulos, NOAA Office of Education |
Presentation |
| Workshop Agenda Overview & Logistics | John McLaughlin, NOAA Office of Education | Presentation |
| Future of SOS Education Program | Carrie McDougall, NOAA Office of Education | Presentation |
| Participant Introductions | ||
| NEW/PENDING SPHERE INSTALLATIONS | ||
| Newest Sphere Installations | John McLaughlin, NOAA Office of Education | Presentation |
| The Climate Institute Puebla, Mexico |
Carlos Jose Diaz Leal | Presentation |
| Gwacheon National Science Museum Gwacheon, Republic of Korea |
Dr. Kang Hwan Lee | Presentation |
| Alaska State Museum Juneau, AK |
Sara Lee | Presentation |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Portland, OR |
Sue Wu and Nate Lesiuk | Presentation |
| Heureka, The Finnish Science Centere, Vantaa, Finland |
Sanna Reponen | Presentation |
| Discovery Science Center Santa Ana, CA |
Roxy Nava | |
| Denver Museum of Nature & Science Denver, CO |
Eddie Goldstein | None |
| NASA Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, FL |
Christopher Blair | None |
| Aquarium of the Pacific Long Beach, CA |
Barbara Long | None |
| MAJOR WORKSHOP TOPICS PANELS | ||
| Introduction to Panels | Carrie McDougall, NOAA Office of Education |
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| Panel 1 - Connections to other platforms | LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA Climate Program Office Kirk Bergstrom, WorldLink Matt McBride, NOAA Pacific Services Center |
Notes from this Panel |
| Panel 2 - Best practices in docent/interpreter presentations | Heather Barnes, Chicago MSI Steve Bishop, Whitaker Sci Center Shawn Rowe, Oregon St. University |
Notes from this Panel |
| Panel 3 - Connections to formal education | Pat Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota Abbey Spargo, Ocean Explorium Gary Randolph, GLOBE |
Notes from this Panel |
| Panel 4 - Understanding learning Impacts | Elizabeth Ban, Smithsonian Natural History Museum Manjit Goldberg, Maryland Science Center Shawn Rowe, Oregon St. Univ. |
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| Panel 5 - Best practices in sphere content creation | Michael Starobin, NASA Goddard Sue Guevara, Lawrence Hall of Science Joe Verrengia, Department of Energy |
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| Panel 6 - Real-time data and interpretation | Dan Pisut, NOAA Environmental Viz Lab Maurice Henderson, NASA Goddard Patrick Rowley, Nauticus |
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| NETWORKING SESSION AROUND WORKSHOP TOPICS AND SNACKS | ||
| Option 1: Tour of NOAA's Earth System Science Lab | Beth Russell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) | |
| Option 2: Projector Alignment "How-to" Session | John Marciniak, MAXatrax Systems | |
| Option 3: Continue networking with colleagues | ||
*Teacher worksheets from Tony Muphy of St. Catherine University from work with SMM's SOS
**GLOBE Earth System Science Poster actitivity available at: www.globe.gov/page?earth_system
Day 2 — November 18 @ NOAA Earth System Research Lab (ESRL)
| Topic | Presenter and Presenting Organizer | Associated Files |
| SOS SOFTWARE AND DATASETS - NOAA UPDATE | ||
| SOS Software recent and future improvements | David Himes, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) |
Notes Presentation |
| New datasets & other updates to the SOS library | Beth Russell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) | Notes |
Network-wide Evaluation/ |
Kate Haley-Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation | Presentation |
| Extended Panel on Creating Interactivity with SOS | Leon Geschwind, Bishop Museum Eric Hackathorn, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Matt Benjamin, Fiske Planetarium |
Presentation (Geschwind) Video (Hackathorn) |
| SPHERECASTING DEMO | ||
| Global Meteorology Update via spherecasting | Tom Lefebvre, NOAA Global Systems Division | Presentation |
| BREAKOUT GROUPS - SET 1 | ||
| Concurrent Session 1A - Connections to formal education | Notes | |
| Concurrent Session 1B - Real-time data and interpretation | Notes | |
| Breakout group 1B report-out | Notes | |
| BREAKOUT GROUPS - SET 2 | ||
| Concurrent Session 2A - Connections to other platforms | Notes | |
| Concurrent Session 2B - Future workshops & meetings | Notes | |
| Breakout group 2B report-out | Notes | |
| NETWORKING SESSION | ||
| Option 1: Tour of NOAA's Earth System Science Lab | Beth Russell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) | Presentation |
| Option 2: Intro to creating sphere content "How-to" Session | Dan Pisut, NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab | |
| Option 3: Projector Cleaning "How-to" Session | Rob Morris, Clark Planetarium | None |
| Option 4: Network with colleagues |
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Day 3 — November 19 @ Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado
| Topic | Presenter and Presenting Organizer | Associated Files |
| Welcome to Fiske | ||
| Fiske demonstration of clickers and SOS | Doug Duncan & Matt Benjamin, Fiske Planetarium | Presentation Notes |
| CONTENT SHOWCASE | Content Showcase & Iterative Content Development Process | See Video |
Docent-led presentation with new data sets and animation |
Sue Guevara & Matt Jacoby, Lawrence Hall of Science | None |
| Role of Oceans in Earth's climate | Bryan Kennedy, Science Museum of Minnesota | None |
| Forecast: Tropical Cyclone | Laura Allen, AMNH | None |
| Clips from “Largest”, “Frozen”, and “Return to the Moon” or “Largest” | Michael Starobin, NASA Goddard | None |
| Energy Revolution | Joe Verrengia, NREL | None |
| New content for SOS | Sara Lee, Alaska State Museum | None |
| Hazards/tsunami propagation maps & demo of new interactive kiosk | Leon Geschwind & Brad Evans, Bishop Museum | None |
| Tsunami content (work in progress) | Dan Pisut & Lisa Taylor, NOAA | None |
| BREAKOUT GROUPS - SET 3 | ||
| Concurrent Session 3A - Best practices in sphere content creation | Notes | |
| Concurrent Session 3B - Best practices in docent presentations | Notes | |
| Breakout groups report-out | Notes | |
| BREAKOUT GROUPS - SET 4 | ||
| Concurrent Session 4A - Understanding learning Impacts | Notes | |
| Concurrent Session 4B - Creating Interactivity with SOS | Notes | |
| Breakout groups report-out | Notes (4A) Notes (4B) |
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| Wrap-up and Next Steps | ||