Monday, January 4, 2010

Picture Post needs curriculum

What we need is curriculum for classrooms. John Pickle wrote "This is based no feedback from the National Phenology Network at the poster session, we really need curriculum on how to use the images in the classroom." So, let's talk about the kinds of curriculum we need.

What thoughts do you have about the curriculum for elementary, middle school, high school and college curriculum?

What thoughts do you have about the curriculum for informal science organizations?

Friday, July 31, 2009

Picture Post - Help Movies

Here are some Help Movies to guide you as a Picture Post participant.

1. Picture Post Basics link

A brief orientation to what a picture post is, what it looks like, and why these are important tools for environmental monitoring.

2. Picture Post website link

Tour the Picture Post website. Join as a member, it's very quick. Browse existing picture posts. Become a Post master when you put your post in.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Picture Post - Setting Sail at MLTI 2009

Link to Picture Post Presentation

Digital Earth Watch (DEW) is an informal science program to promote environmental monitoring by students and citizens through remote sensing and digital photography. DEW provides online resources to help participants understand and use NASA satellite imagery, tie it to environmental changes that are occurring at global and regional scales and connect those changes to changes in their own neighborhood. DEW is piloting a Picture Post network with a small group of teachers, nature centers and citizen monitoring groups for taking and sharing digital photographs and contributing to national environmental monitoring. Programs like Project Budburst and the Project Citizen Science have similar goals of environmental monitoring and citizen involvement, and will partner with DEW in the field test of the Picture Post Project.

Picture Post

Picture Post is a network of citizen scientists who use digital photographs to monitor their local environment. A standardized set of photographs is taken and uploaded to our Picture Post website to share with other citizen scientists.

Picture Post website