Kinetic City Cyberclub: An Episodic Web Site

9628426美国科学促进会正在开发和测试青年科学俱乐部在线网站的试点阶段。动感城市网络俱乐部将让年轻人参与插曲冒险，以促进集体和独立探索。当用户通过神秘或其他相关活动时，他们将收到精心设计的、有节奏的挑战。随着时间的推移，这些冒险将在一系列节目中呈现出来，这些节目要求用户使用科学来解决正在进行的谜团或问题。在线俱乐部的组成部分将包括：Story Pods，它设定了问题，并告诉用户到目前为止已经学到了什么；线索Pods，包括用户可以添加到他们个人电子笔记本中的信息和活动；实验Pods，用户将能够尝试不同的理论来解决眼前的问题；讨论Pods，将向用户提出问题，鼓励用户做出回应；以及投票Pods，用户可以投票决定科学探索的下一步方向或问题的可能解决方案。网页的组成部分将定期更新，大部分内容每周更改一次，在某些情况下每天更改。PI将是AAAS的Robert Hirshon，他一直是Kinetic City Super Crew的关键开发者，Kinetic City网络俱乐部所基于的广播系列剧。负责开发和维护该网站的高级制片人将是金伯利·阿马拉尔。阿马拉尔女士之前是伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海岸研究中心和Sea Grant的撰稿人/网络开发人员，她曾担任过Bill Nye the Science Guy的研究员/作家。传播和推广将是美国科学促进会和全国科学教师协会的共同努力。评估将由哈佛教育研究生院的独立评估者兼讲师亚瑟·C·约翰逊进行。

9628426 Hirshon The AAAS is developing and testing a pilot phase of an on-line website science club for youth. Kinetic City Cyberclub will engage youth in episodic adventures to promote both group and independent exploration. Users will receive carefully crafted, paced challenges as they wind their way through a mystery or other related activity. The adventures will be presented over time in a series of episodes that require users to use science toward solving an on-going mystery or problem. Components of the on-line club will include: Story Pods which set up the problem and inform users of what has been learned to date; Clue Pods which include information and activities that users can add to their individual electronic notebooks; Experiment Pods where users will be able to try out different theories to solve immediate problems; Discussion Pods where questions will be posed to which users are encourage to respond; and a Voting Pods where users get to vote on the next direction the science exploration should take or on possible solutions to problems. Components of the web page will be updated on a regular basis with most of the content being changed weekly and, in some instances, daily. The PI will be Robert Hirshon of the AAAS who has been the key developer of The Kinetic City Super Crew, the radio series on which the Kinetic City Cyberclub is based. The Senior Producer responsible for developing and maintaining the website will be Kimberly Amaral. Ms. Amaral previously been a writer/web developer for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Coastal Research Center and Sea Grant and she has worked as a researcher/writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy. Dissemination and outreach will be a joint effort of the AAAS and the National Science Teachers Association. Evaluation will be conducted by Arthur C. Johnson, an independent evaluator and instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.