Engaging the NAGT membership in creating web resources

让NAGT成员参与创建网络资源该项目试行使用全国地球科学教师协会(NAGT)网站来展示成员、部门和国家组织的教育工作；并促进组织内外更好的沟通。同时，该项目探讨了就地球科学界高度感兴趣的专题制作专题集的潜力，这些专题集可与环境地学司分享。我们的工作利用NAGT成员的实地考察专业知识，为广泛的教育和专业受众创建关于实地考察的设计和管理的材料。网站内容的一个重要部分是收集实地考察指南和材料。这些指南经常是未出版的或出版的文献没有很好的索引。NAGT网站上收集的这些材料以及通过DLESE发现它们的能力为教师和教职员工在当地地质学领域的教学创造了一个重要的资源。NAGT有能力创建这样的资源，因为实地考察和实地地质学在美国和加拿大的八个区域部门的活动中发挥着核心作用，而且创建这种资源所需的大部分技术基础设施都已在NAGT网站所在的科学教育资源中心(SERC)到位。该项目将涉及对SERC内容管理系统的修改，以实现NAGT成员个人对网络资源的贡献和编辑，并支持该系统的界面和帮助文件的开发。这些是支持由NAGT成员和使用SERC内容管理系统创建网站的其他团体的成员在实地旅行中开发专题集合和其他集合所需的关键步骤。

Engaging the NAGT Membership in Creating Web ResourcesThis project pilots the use of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) website to showcase the educational work of members, sections, and the national organization; and fosters improved communication both within and beyond the organization. At the same time, the project explores the potential for creation of thematic collections on topics of high interest to the geoscience community that can be shared with DLESE. Our work taps the field-trip expertise of the NAGT membership to create materials about both the design and management of field trips for a wide variety of educational and professional audiences. An important part of the website content is the collection of field trip guides and materials. These guides are frequently unpublished or published in literature that is not well indexed. The collection of these materials on the NAGT site and the ability to discover them through DLESE creates a critical resource for teachers and faculty teaching in the field about local geology. NAGT is well positioned to create such a resource because field trips and field geology play a central role in the activities of eight regional sections in the United States and Canada, and because much of the needed technical infrastructure for creating such a collection is in place at the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) which hosts the NAGT website. This project will involve modifications of the SERC content management system to enable contribution and editing of web resources by individual NAGT members, and to support development of interfaces and help documentation for the system. These are the critical steps needed to support development of a thematic collection on field trips and additional collections by NAGT members and members of other groups that use the SERC content management system for website creation.