E&O Working Group
Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group
The E&O Working Group currently consists of 12 members from iDigBio (University of Florida and Florida State University), and 27 external members from TCNs and other projects.
Mission & Scope
This working group will:
- Coordinate Education and Outreach activities among iDigBio, TCNs, and other partnering projects
- Share E&O related resources, tools, and training with the ADBC community and beyond
- Develop E&O activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
- Plan for and implement those activities
Members
From TCNs & Other Partnering Projects
- Tracy Barbaro, Harvard University
- Amy Bolton, Smithsonian Institute
- Ed Scholes, Cornell University
- Barbara Thiers, New York Botanical Garden
- Zack Murrell, Appalachian State University
- Jon Hendricks, Cornell University
- Katja Seltmann
- Liz Shea, Delaware Museum of Natural History
- Petra Sierwald, The Field Museum
- Richard Primack, Boston University
- Mike Denslow, Appalachian State University
- Anne Basham, Arizona State University
- Travis Marsico, Arkansas State University
- Andrea Weeks, George Mason University
- Andrea Miller, The Morton Arboretum
- Andrew Hipp, The Morton Arboretum
- Rosemary Smith, Idaho State University
- Marc Cubeta, North Carolina State University
- Marie Studer, Encyclopedia of Life
- Fang Wang, Florida State University
- Anna Monfils, Central Michigan University
- Esther Jackson, New York Botanical Garden
- Charlie Zimmerman, New York Botanical Garden
- Lisa White, University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Cindy Skema, University of Pennsylvannia
- Abigail Benson U.S. Geological Survey
- Teresa Mourad, Ecological Society of America
- Natalie Howe, Southern New Hampshire University
- Polly Root Sturgeon, Indiana Geological and Water Survey, Indiana University
From iDigBio
- Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Bruce MacFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History
- David Jennings, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Marcia Mardis, Florida State University
- Shari Ellis, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Libby Ellwood
- Austin Mast, Florida State University
- Gil Nelson, Florida State University
- Betty Dunckel, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Shelley James, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Jillian Goodwin, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Randal Singer, Florida Museum of Natural History
- Deb Paul, Florida State University
- Richard Garand, University of FLorida
E&O WG Meetings
The E&O WG will meet Biannually to communicate activities across projects, and plan for, and implement E&O activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
E&O WG Meeting Minutes
- Minutes from the April 2017 Meeting
- Minutes from February 2016 Meeting
- Minutes from September 2015 Meeting
Summit V E&O WG Discussion Session (November 2015)
- E&O WG notes
- ADBC Audience Matrix updated to include additional audiences and activities that were talked about during discussion.
- Discussion slides
- E&O WG Poster
E&O Webinar Series
The purpose of the series is to share resources, tools, and expertise centered on E&O activities for ADBC partners and the collections community. The series will begin with 6-8 webinars in 2016.
All webinars will be held at 12 pm EDT unless otherwise stated in the calendar event. All webinars will use the Adobe Connect Room: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/eo New to Adobe Connect? Check out iDigBio's Quick Start Guide.
2018 Webinars
The iDigBio E&O Working Group has joined forces with BLUE, BCoN, and SCNet on a series called "Moving the Needle: Broadening Participation in the Biodiversity Sciences" Find out more about the series and keep up to date on the upcoming webinars here: https://www.idigbio.org/content/moving-needle-broadening-participation-biodiversity-sciences
2017 Webinars
- "How to Design a Great Storytelling Project: Insights from NPR Training" Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm ET with Serri Graslie a Sr. Digital Strategist on NPR’s Training Team.
Fall 2016
The E&O Working group is collaborating with the Small Collections Network and BLUE (Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education) for the fall webinar series. Webinars will be once a month in the SCNet room on Wednesdays at 3:00 pm ET.
Schedule
- September 21, 2016 Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community with Anna Monfils from Central Michigan University
- October 12, 2016 Isn’t that Spatial? Discover how to geo-enable your research and teaching with today’s interactive web mapping tools Joseph J. Kerski from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
- November 16, 2016 Phylogenetic diversity comparison among Nebraska counties: example of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) Roxi Kellar from University of Nebraska at Omaha
- December 14, 2016 Reimagining professional development: Faculty mentoring networks as a model for connecting projects and teachers Sam Donovan from University of Pittsburgh
Spring 2016 Schedule
- February 17, 2016: "Make the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event an Exciting Part of your Institution’s Education and Outreach Activities" with Austin Mast (FSU Associate Professor), Libby Ellwood (FSU Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Paul Kimberly (NMNH Digitization Manager)
- February 24, 2016: "Social Media and Telepresence to Engage the Public" with Randal Singer (University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History)
- March 23, 2016: "iPlant's DNA Subway" with Jason Williams (CYVERSE)
- April 13, 2016: "The BrainScoop: Insight into Using Videos as Engaging Outreach Tools" with Emily Graslie (The Field Museum)
- May 18, 2016 "Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections" with Erica Krimmel (Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) and Travis Marisco (Arkansas State University)
- June 15, 2016 "A Small-Collections On-Ramp for Participation in the 2016 Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event" with Austin Mast and Libby Ellwood (Florida State University, iDigBio)
Upcoming E&O Workshops
Past E&O Workshops
Building Collections-Based Curricula for the High School Classroom
- Date: Three day workshop the week of July 9th, 2018
- Location: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Workshop Wiki
Incorporating K-12 Outreach into Digitized Collections Programs
- Monday, December 05, 2016 (All day) to Tuesday, December 06, 2016 (All day) Location: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (http://qrius.si.edu/) Washington, D.C.
Resources for Collections-Based Undergraduate Education
- Scheduled for May 24-25, 2017, in Gainesville, FL