Webcasts
OhioView's member universities believe that webcasts, the live streaming of video, will transform classroom instruction. The technology is a powerful tool that allows teachers, their classrooms, and scientists to come together and participate in an interactive educational environment from multiple locations. Led by Dr. Czajkowski of the University of Toledo, and with the participation of other univerty professors, OhioView has sponsored four webcasts from NASA Glenn Research Center, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The webcasts focus on satellites and what their images can tell us about life here on Earth. These broadcasts are a great way to demonstrate the possibilities of using this technology in the classroom to teach the Earth sciences. About 3,000 students from 40-70 North American schools participate in each webcast.
Also for further reading:
http://www.ohioview.org/research/webcasts.pdf
Teacher Workshops
Over forty teachers participated in the OhioView Teacher Workshops held in July 2002 and June 2003 to learn about remote sensing and how to integrate satellite imagery into the classroom. Their fun-filled week included presentations by local university professors on a variety of remote sensing topics, a Global Positioning Systems (GPS) bects, computer programs and applications, picnics, and more. Teachers were given instruction on, as well as the opportunity to work with, GPS instruments and remote sensing software throughout the five-day seminar, new and unfamiliar technology for most of the attendees. Upon the workshopbOur convenient Online Rolodex can help you locate individuals at your institutions who are working with OhioView.s completion, teachers received handouts, posters, and other materials that they will each couple with their newfound knowledge to create their own unique curricula, which all agreed to submit by the end of the school year.
Also for further reading:
http://www.remotesensing.utoledo.edu/edu/SATEL.html
