The 2003 Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Annual Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2 through Ausust 5, 2003

该奖项支持第四届DLESE年会。 会议的主题是“扩大DLESE”，并以第三届年会的主题“使用DLESE”为基础。 本次年会将为DLESE提供展示新的DSLESE版本2和启动新的核心服务中心的机会。 会议的四个主要目标与新的核心服务领域大致一致，是制定战略：扩大DLESE用户和贡献者的数量和多样性;促进和鼓励开发用于教育用途的地球科学数据/工具的努力;扩大DLESE优秀地球科学教育材料的收藏;并拓宽研究与教育实践之间的联系。 每一个目标或链领域被进一步分解成子链，总共有十三个子链。 Strand的参与者将由教师、大学教师的课程开发人员、视觉工具开发人员、评估人员、教学设计人员、图书馆员、科学家、学生和软件开发人员组成。 每位与会者将根据他们在注册时表达的兴趣被分配到一个小组。 来自社区的链领导者将帮助促进组织他们的特定链，并通过会议前的电子邮件推动他们小组的努力，在会议期间主持工作会议，并在会议后促进后续工作。 特别努力招募代表不同社区的与会者，包括种族、残疾、地理分布和社会经济地位的多样性。 还努力招募代表地球科学研究和教育界不同部门的与会者。 与会者将有很多机会建立网络，展示他们的服务，并发展合作，包括技能研讨会和分享公平的参与。 对会议的评价也包括在内，以衡量我们实现目标的程度。

This award supports the fourth DLESE Annual Meeting. The theme of the meeting is "Broadening DLESE", and builds upon the theme of the third Annual Meeting, "Using DLESE". This Annual Meeting will provide DLESE the opportunity to demonstrate the new DSLESE version 2 and to launch the new Core Service Centers. The four main goals for the meeting, loosely aligned with the new Core Service areas, are to develop strategies to: expand the number and diversity of users and contributors to DLESE; facilitate and encourage efforts to develop Earth science data/tools for educational use; expand DLESE's collection of excellent Earth science educational materials; and broaden the ties between research and educational practice. Each goal or strand area is further broken into substrands for a total of thirteen substrands. Strand participants will be made up of a distribution of teachers, college instructors' curriculum developers, visual tools developers, evaluators, instructional designers, librarians, scientists, students, and software developers. Each attendee will be assigned to a group based upon their interests expressed at registration. Strand leaders from the community will help facilitate organizing their particular strand and moving the efforts of their group forward, through email prior to the meeting, chairing the working sessions during the meeting, and facilitating follow through after the meeting. A special effort has been made to recruit attendees who represent diverse communities, including diversity of ethnicity, disabilities, geographic distribution, and socio-economic status. An effort has also been made to recruit attendees who represent differing segments of the Earth science research and educational communities. Attendees will have many opportunities to network, to demonstrarte their services, and to develop collaborations, including skills workshops and Share Fair participation. Evaluation of the meeting is included to gauge the extent to which we meet our goals.