Seeing the Forest and the Trees

看森林和树(0941415)该项目正在实施一种新的方法，将移动通信技术与社交网络软件和网站结合到马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特大学的几门课程的生物学课程中。创新的课程充分利用了大学生对网络通信(如PDA、手机、Facebook、Flickr和Google Earth)的熟练程度，同时使他们熟悉实地观察和研究技能。学生能够通过各种在线资源分享他们的观察和数据，为正在进行的关于入侵植物物种、植物多样性、植物物候和动植物相互作用的研究做出贡献。通过评估教师和学生使用移动技术的经验、想法和态度，该项目可以为广泛的教育机构提供信息，让他们根据自己的课程采用这种独特的方法。例如，马萨诸塞州大学波士顿分校的教职员工正在与波士顿公立学校的学生和中学教师举行为期一天的研讨会，评估该项目开发的技术。收集的数据和吸取的经验教训正在通过一个名为MobileTechnologiesForTeachingFieldCourses的公共网站传播。最终，该项目利用地理空间、移动和多媒体信息技术的进步，并将其应用于环境科学主题，使各级教育机构、公民科学计划和环境非政府组织受益。

Seeing the Forest and the Trees (0941415)The project is implementing a novel method of combining mobile communication technologies with social networking software and websites into the biology curricula of several courses at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The innovative curriculum takes full advantage of college students' proficiency with networked communications (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, Facebook, Flickr, and Google Earth) while familiarizing them with field observations and research skills. Students are able to share their observations and data through various online sources by contributing to ongoing research about invasive plant species, plant diversity, plant phenology and plant-animal interactions. By evaluating the experiences, ideas, and attitudes of instructors and students using mobile technologies, this project can inform a wide range of educational institutions on adapting this unique approach for its own curriculum. For example, faculty at UMass Boston are evaluating the technology developed in the project in one day workshops with Boston Public School students and middle school teachers. Data collected and lessons learned are being disseminated via a public website called MobileTechnologiesForTeachingFieldCourses. Ultimately this project utilizes the advances in geospatial, mobile, and multimedia information technologies coalesced with their application to environmental science topics to benefit educational institutions of all levels, Citizen Science programs, and environmental non-government organizations.