Kinetic City Cyberclub: An Episodic Web Site

9628426 Hirshon美国科学促进会正在开发和测试青少年在线科学俱乐部网站的试点阶段。Kinetic City Cyberclub将让青少年参与到情节冒险中，以促进团队和独立探索。当玩家在神秘或其他相关活动中蜿蜒前行时，他们将会收到精心设计的、有节奏的挑战。随着时间的推移，冒险将以一系列的情节呈现，要求用户使用科学来解决一个持续的谜团或问题。在线俱乐部的组成部分将包括：Story Pods，它设置问题并告知用户迄今为止所了解的情况；Clue Pods包含信息和活动，用户可以将其添加到个人电子笔记本中；实验舱，用户可以尝试不同的理论来解决眼前的问题；讨论舱将提出问题，鼓励用户回答；还有一个投票舱，用户可以在那里投票决定科学探索的下一个方向或问题的可能解决方案。网页的组成部分将定期更新，大部分内容每周更新，在某些情况下，每天更新。PI将由美国科学促进会（AAAS）的Robert Hirshon担任，他是《The Kinetic City Super Crew》的主要开发者，这是《Kinetic City Cyberclub》所基于的广播系列节目。负责开发和维护网站的高级制作人将是金伯利·阿马拉尔。阿马拉尔女士曾担任伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海岸研究中心和海洋基金的作家/网络开发人员，并曾担任比尔·奈（Bill Nye）的研究员/作家。传播和推广将是美国科学促进会和国家科学教师协会的共同努力。评估将由Arthur C. Johnson进行，他是哈佛大学教育研究生院的独立评估员和讲师。

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.