The DLESE 2005 Annual Meeting

地球系统教育数字图书馆（DLESE）是一个分布式的社区努力，涉及教育工作者、学生和科学家，他们共同努力，以提高各级地球系统教学的质量、数量和效率。自2000年成立以来，dleses每年夏天都会举办年会，将社区成员聚集在一起讨论与图书馆定义、建设和扩建有关的问题。这些会议是与教育工作者接触的关键机制，也是地球科学教育界对图书馆服务发展的投入。将于2005年7月8日至12日在圣彼得堡南佛罗里达大学举行的2005年年会将为dese提供机会，既展示图书馆发展的进展，又发展和加强现有和新的合作者之间的联系。会议将建立一个平台，让开发者和图书馆用户都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他们的新图书馆功能，用户将能够向开发人员提供重要的反馈，开发人员和用户都将从同行那里了解潜在的用途，并提出关键的改进建议，以使图书馆成为一个更强大、更有吸引力的学习/教学环境，吸引来自各级教育活动的学生/教师。会议将努力处理各种问题，如多样性/代表性不足的人口、学术承认、教学评价和评价，以及制定机制，在设计支持关于地球系统的教学/学习的新教材方面提供指导和支助。年会为代表地球系统教育中这些不同利益的领导人提供了一个机会，让他们作为一个社区会面，共同努力，将dese塑造成一个满足我们需求的资源。与会者将来自不同的社区，包括来自K-12学校的教师，学院和大学教师，以及地球和信息科学的研究人员，代表了dese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200人以内。

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.