The DLESE 2005 Annual Meeting

地球系统教育数字图书馆(DLESE)是一个由教育工作者、学生和科学家共同参与的分布式社区工作，旨在提高各级地球系统教学和学习的质量、数量和效率。自2000年成立以来，DLESE每年夏天都会主办年度会议，将社区成员聚集在一起，讨论与定义、建设和扩大图书馆相关的问题。这些会议是联系教育工作者和让地球科学教育界为发展图书馆服务提供投入的一个重要机制。2005年年会将于2005年7月8日至12日在圣彼得堡的南佛罗里达大学举行，它将为图书馆发展司提供展示图书馆发展进展的机会，并发展和加强现有合作者和新合作者之间的联系。会议将建立一个平台，开发者和图书馆用户将有机会讨论图书馆发展中的各种问题。开发人员将能够展示其新的图书馆功能，用户将能够向开发人员提供重要反馈，开发人员和用户将从同行那里了解潜在的使用情况，并提出必要的改进建议，以使图书馆成为一个更强大和更有吸引力的教/学环境，供各级教育活动的学生/教师使用。会议将努力解决人口多样性/代表性不足、学术认可、教学评估和评价等问题，并制定机制，为设计新的教学材料提供指导和支持，以支持有关地球系统的教/学。年会为代表地球系统教育领域不同利益的领导人提供了一个机会，让他们作为一个社区聚集在一起，共同努力将DLESE塑造为一种服务于我们需求的资源。会议参与者将来自不同的社区，包括来自K-12学校的教师、学院和大学教职员工，以及地球和信息科学的研究人员，他们代表了DLESE实际和预期受众的全部范围。出于后勤和实际考虑，会议将限制在最多200人参加。

The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. Since its inception in 2000, DLESE has hosted annual meetings each summer to bring together community members to discuss issues related to defining, building, and expanding the library. These meetings serve as a key mechanism for outreach to educators and for input by the geoscience education community into the development of library services. The 2005 Annual Meeting, to be held 8-12 July 2005, at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, will provide DLESE the opportunity to both demonstrate advances in the library's development and develop and strengthen ties between current and new collaborators. The meeting will establish a platform where both developers and library users will have opportunities to discuss a variety of issues in library development. The developers will be able to demonstrate their new library functions, the users will be able to provide important feed back to the developers, and both developers and users will learn from their peers about potential uses, and make suggestions for critical improvements needed to make the library a stronger and more attractive learning/teaching environment for students/teachers from all levels of educational activities. The meeting will incorporate efforts to address issues such as diversity/underrepresented populations, academic recognition, pedagogical assessment and evaluation, and the development of mechanisms to provide guidance and support in designing new instructional materials that support teaching/learning about the Earth system. The Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for leaders representing these diverse interests in Earth system education to meet as a community and to work together to shape DLESE as a resource that serves our needs. Meeting participants will be drawn from diverse communities, including teachers from K-12 schools, college and university faculty, and researchers in both Earth and information sciences, representing the full spectrum of the actual and intended DLESE audience. The meeting will be limited to a maximum of 200 participants for both logistical and practical concerns.