Facilitator’s Guide
2005 Data Services Workshop
Thanks for your willingness to work with your team to accomplish the goals of the workshop’s breakout sessions. We sincerely appreciate your contribution!

As a facilitator, we encourage you to monitor and guide discussions as necessary to keep them moving in a productive direction. Also, please work to elicit ideas, skills, and expertise from all of your team members.

Module Development
The goals of each team breakout session (listed on page 2) build toward compiling content for an educational module that features datasets and tools represented by the team. Your team has an identified “module developer” who has accepted responsibility for compiling team content for development of an Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) chapter. We often refer to these folks as EET Leads (as in lead developer). 

Please work closely with your team’s module developer to make certain they are getting the information they need. Their task is develop a case study and an outline of the step-by-step procedures that will walk teachers and students through a successful data-using experience. All members of the team will be listed as co-authors of the chapter, so we encourage everyone to accept the responsibility of providing feedback on the chapter through its development.

Note taking in breakout sessions
Your team also has a “recorder” who has accepted responsibility to make certain that some team member takes notes for each session. This person will also collect all notes and make them available to workshop staff.  Please work with your recorder to let the team know that recording duties will be shared among all team members. Assist your recorder in delegating this task if necessary, so that all team members have a chance to contribute to the conversation.

Note takers can take notes on paper, on a flip-chart, in a word processing document, or, if they have access to a wireless-enabled laptop, they can capture notes directly into the workshop swiki (see your Teams’ Workspace at http://swiki.dlese.org/2005-dataservicesworkshop/5). For flip chart notes, we will take high-resolution digital camera photos, so no transcription to other media will be necessary.

Workshop Evaluation Surveys
On Monday, please end your group work at 3:15, giving 5 minutes for folks to respond to the daily evaluation survey. Please collect the completed forms and return them to the evaluation survey return box at the workshop registration table.

Report Out Session
In the final session, each team will give a brief 3-slide report on their work. Please plan to serve as your team’s spokesperson or assign/elect another team member.

Session Goals

Session 1—Examples of Relevant Work, Needs Regarding Data Access
Team members share examples of work they've done with regard to using data and discuss perceived needs for improving access to data

Session 2—Exploring Datasets and Tools, Considering Concepts to Address in Educational Module
Examine datasets and tools represented by the team and consider scientific concepts that could be addressed utilizing them in an educational module. 
Please record significant discussion points as well as the URLs of various tools and datasets the group considers. Datasets and tools will be submitted to the Using Data Portal.

Session 3—Consider Contexts for Using Data, Outline Steps for Data Access and Analysis
Brainstorm to identify one or more compelling contexts in which the data might be used for education. 
For contexts being considered, use the complementary expertise on the team to perform a quick proof-of-concept check that the task could be actually be completed in an educational setting.
Record the list of contexts considered as well as general outlines for performing the data access and analysis procedures.

Session 4—Outline Case Study, Walk Through Data Access and Analysis Procedures
Begin to develop the team's most promising context into a Case Study. Record ideas, an outline, or actual text that will allow the module developer to produce a case study that introduces end-users to the issues and concepts of the module. 
Perform a walk-through of the data access and analysis procedures, identifying the largest "chunks" of the task as the main parts of the module's instructions. For each part, outline the sequence of steps to take, giving special attention to the most difficult/least intuitive steps.

Session 5—Make Post-workshop Plans, Prepare Report-out PowerPoint Slides
Fill in any major gaps in your module development plan. The EET Lead will have responsibility for developing the Case Study and a structured sequence to walk users through it. 
Download the PowerPoint template and insert information from your group.
Slide 1 — Team Name plus List of Team Member names and a name or phrase to describe each individual’s contribution
Slide 2 — Working Title for your EET Chapter, Dataset Featured
Access/Analysis Tool(s) to be Used:Concept that Users will Learn by Using Data:
Slide 3 — Based on team interaction and other input at the workshop, what are the team’s top two recommendations for increasing the use of data in education?

Please deliver your PPT to the podium computer on a flash drive—check if someone on your team has one available, or let us know if you need one.