CMMAP Meeting Hawaii Feb. 2007 - Presentation Links

  1. Advertise posters at poster session
  2. Explicitly invite scientists (who are interested!) to be involved in Educataion & Outreach activities
  3. Windows to the Universe (W2U) site (levels | Spanish/English)
  4. Virtual Labs & Microworlds (interactive simulations formerly called 'SEE-ME')
    1. Invite scientists to be involved: review materials & provide input on microworlds to aid development
    2. Water cycle
    3. Evaporation rate (local | web)
    4. How do raindrops form? (local | web)
    5. Balloon explores atmosphere layers (local | web)
    6. Paleoclimate/Dendrochronology from online course [Build a tree (local | web) & Align tree ring cores (local | web)]
  5. Postcards from the Field
    1. Examples (Local screenshots: Menu page | Penguins | MILAGRO Balloon launch | MILAGRO Visualization)
    2. Scientist's biographies (they are real people!) [local | web]
    3. Intructions for developers (local)
    4. Interface for developers (local screenshot)
    5. Postcards training - at this meeting, later via phone (takes 30 min to an hour at most)
  6. Education resource database
    1. Demo our proposed interface
      1. Data entry (local | web)
      2. Search (local | web)
    2. Show CISM example media that could be better suited to education
      1. too busy - remove magentic field lines (screenshot)
      2. poorly labeled - size scale of axes, color scale (varies, units), Earth
  7. Windows to the Universe web development progress
    1. Our outline of proposed content topics (Word | local | web)
    2. Our (partial) list of existing materials (local | web)
    3. CMMAP portal page on W2U (local | web) [W2U home page | local screenshot]
      1. MILAGRO example
        1. Portal/menu page (local | web)
        2. Content page (local | web)
        3. W2U background content (local | web)
      2. W2U usage stats
        1. W2U site usage stats (graph)
        2. >133 million page views in 2006 (~364 thousand per day)
        3. ~16 million annual user sessions (~44 thousand per day)
        4. ~14 million visitors (unique IP addresses)