AFGE: Developing a Virtual Museum Using the World Wide Web

[8094558]阿克曼PI将创建一个虚拟博物馆，展示已故地球同步气象卫星之父Verner E. Suomi对地球科学的贡献，并帮助人们了解他的工作的实际影响。Suomi教授的研究和发明为我们对地球能量收支的理解带来了许多科学突破，以及广泛应用于许多学科的间接测量新技术。这个想法是通过展示一些历史观点，更重要的是通过使用高度互动的学习模块，为更好地理解日常经验的意义提供机会，以新的、互动的方式使用网络来鼓励各级（公共、小学、中学、大学）的学习。虚拟博物馆将以Suomi教授的作品为主题，创建模块。虚拟博物馆的概念反映了一种设计教育网络活动的方法。网络应该像博物馆一样流动，而不是像书一样。书要从前到后读；然而，我们进入博物馆，然后去我们最感兴趣的房间。这个博物馆设计概念允许学习者选择一个他们感兴趣的特定模块，然后提供将当前练习与其他活动联系起来的链接和想法。在真正的博物馆风格中，网页将以各种不同的方式链接在一起，而不会强迫访问者严格遵循任何预设的路径。网络比博物馆更有优势，因为人们可以更好地连接各个房间之间的关系。这种高度互动的方式反映了动手博物馆的本质。这项工作有大量的应用，从高中教师的夏季讲习班到实际博物馆的信息亭，再到教学遥感概念的课堂使用。适当设计的活动也可以通过提供对困难概念的可理解解释的参考来为广大社区服务。这是一项具有广泛潜力的突破性研究。

9809458AckermanThe PI will create a virtual museum depicting the contributions to the geosciences of the late Verner E. Suomi, the father of the geostationary weather satellite, and to help teach people the practical ramifications of his work. Professor Suomi's research and inventions have led to many scientific breakthroughs in our understanding of the Earth's energy budget, as well as new techniques for indirect measurements that are widely used across many disciplines. The idea is to use the Web in new, interactive ways to encourage learning at all levels (public, primary and secondary, college) by showing not only some historical perspectives, but more importantly by using highly interactive learning modules to provide opportunities for better understanding the meaning of everyday experiences. Modules will be created for the virtual museum, using Professor Suomi's work as the theme. The virtual museum concept reflects an approach to designing educational Web activities. The Web should flow like a museum and not a book. Books need to be read from front to back; whereas, we enter a museum and then go to the rooms that interest us most. This museum design concept allows learners to choose a particular module that interests them, and then provides links and thoughts that relate the current exercise to other activities. In true museum fashion, Web pages will be linked together in a variety of different ways, and not force the visitor to strictly follow any preconceived path. The Web has an advantage over the museum in that one can better link relationships between rooms. The highly interactive approach reflects the nature of a hands-on museum. There are substantial numbers of applications for this work, ranging from summer workshops for high school teachers, to kiosks in actual museums, to classroom use in teaching concepts of remote sensing. Properly designed activities could also serve the community at large by providing a reference for understandable explanations of difficult concepts. This is groundbreaking research that has immediate widespread potential.