SGER: Tsunami! Virtual Teacher Workshop

摘要：为了应对最近发生在印度洋的海啸，海洋科学/海洋教育项目分部授予了举办在线教师研讨会的请求，该研讨会将为教师提供必要的信息和教学技巧，以向学生解释这一事件。这些信息也将在网上免费提供给任何对此感兴趣的人。教师们迫切需要了解最近这场压倒性自然灾害的特点，以解决学生们的问题和担忧。在科学家和教育界之间提供直接联系，将有助于在这次造成灾难性生命损失的事件的冲击中解决有关海啸的教育需求。探索学院（TCOE）将在2005年2月设计、开发和实施一个为期三周的虚拟教师研讨会，为教育工作者提供及时的信息。在这个研讨会上，nsf支持的科学家和其他专家将以在线形式介绍他们研究的摘要信息，并可与教育工作者进行异步互动对话。本次研讨会的总体目标是提高教师和学生对最近海啸和海啸的科学认识，目前这场悲剧对世界产生了如此巨大的影响，并且已经并将继续成为重大新闻事件。研讨会将包括由海啸研究人员和国家科学基金会资助的科学家以及其他从事海啸相关研究和教育推广的知名专家所作的三到六次主题演讲。该研讨会将以异步方式提供，因此参与者可以在三周的时间内方便地参加。一个外部评估小组将评估讲习班作为一种专业发展工具的有效性，确定这种利用海啸内容为教育工作者及时应对自然灾害创造创新学习经验的在线讲习班模式是否成功。

Abstract: OCE-0515761In response to the recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Division of Ocean Sciences/Ocean Education Program awarded this request to hold an on-line teacher workshop that will provide teachers with information and teaching techniques necessary to explain this event to their students. The information will also be freely available on the web to anyone who is interested in it. Teachers have an immediate need to understand the characteristics of this recent overwhelming natural disaster to address their students' questions and concerns. Providing a direct link between scientists and the education community will help address educational needs about tsunamis in the midst of the shock of this event with its catastrophic loss of life.The College of Exploration (TCOE) will provide timely information to educators by designing, developing and implementing a three-week virtual teacher workshop in February, 2005 where NSF-supported scientists and other experts will present summary information in an online format about their research and be available asynchronously to interactively engage in dialogue with the educators. The overall goal of this workshop is to increase teachers' and students' awareness about the science of the recent tsunami and tsunamis in general at a time when this tragedy has been impacting the world so dramatically, and has been and continues to be a major news event.The workshop will include three to six keynote presentations by tsunami researchers and experts drawn from NSF-funded scientists, as well as others who are noteworthy experts engaged in tsunami-related research and educational outreach. The workshop will be offered asynchronously, thus allowing participants to take part at their convenience during the three-week period. An external evaluation team will assess the workshop's effectiveness as a professional development tool, determining the success of this model of online workshops using tsunami content to create innovative learning experiences for educators in timely response to a natural disaster.