Facilitating K-12 Selection in an Annotated Rich Media Library of Animal Behavior

该服务项目使在线麦考利图书馆拥有世界上最大的动物声音和动物行为视频收藏，更容易为许多公众所访问，并为K-12教师提供工具，使他们能够随时将这些动物资源纳入课程。 项目活动产生的三个主要项目是：1.地理测绘工具覆盖数字麦考利图书馆收藏; 2。收集学券样本，方便教师选择合适的录音带，以供课堂活动使用; 3.图书馆用户能够将动物记录与地理位置联系起来。 动物的自然吸引力使动物行为成为教授所有STEM学科的跳板。该项目的重点是开发和实施四种机制，以促进选择符合特定K-12需求的注释记录片段：1）提供在线工具，允许教师将搜索限制在他们直接或其他有限的地理位置的记录; 2）预先选择经过认证的“典型例子”，说明受欢迎物种的行为; 3）建立课程开发者、（教育经纪人），和麦考利工作人员专家在动物行为和收集的内容，（内容经纪人），共同努力，弥合所需内容和可用内容之间的差距;以及4）在现有的麦考利图书馆基础设施之上实现资源管理架构。 例如，这些工具的使用正在通过合作开发K-12教学模块来展示，这些模块使用动物行为作为物理教学的重点。

This services project is making the online Macaulay Library which hosts the world's largest collection of animal sounds and animal behavior videos more accessible to many segments of the public and is providing tools to K-12 teachers enabling them to readily incorporate these animal resources into the curriculum. The three principal items resulting from the project activities are: 1. geographic mapping tools overlaying the digital Macaulay Library collection; 2. a collection of voucher specimens that are facilitating teachers in choosing appropriate recordings for inclusion in classroom activities; 3. library users being able to link animal recordings with geographic locations. The natural allure of animals is allowing animal behavior to be used as a springboard for teaching all STEM disciplines. This project is focusing on the development and implementation of four mechanisms for facilitating the selection of annotated recording segments that meet specific K-12 needs: 1) providing online tools that allow teachers to restrict searches to recordings from their immediate or other limited geographic locales; 2) pre-selecting authenticated "typical examples" of illustrative behaviors of favored species; 3) establishing a "double-broker" collaboration system in which curriculum developers, (the education brokers), and a Macaulay staff member expert in animal behavior and the content of the collection, (the content broker), work together to bridge the gap between what is needed and what is available; and 4) implementing a resource management architecture on top of the existing Macaulay Library infrastructure. For example, the use of these tools is being demonstrated by collaborative development of teaching modules for K-12 that use animal behavior as the focus for teaching physics.