[Viz] making progress/housekeeping

[Cathy Manduca]

Greetings all-

We are making progress in pulling together all of the workshop results and 
documents:).    You can see where we are by looking at the program 
(serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualize04) which now links to  the files 
and information that we have.  We had a small crisis after you left in that 
my thumbdrive died --so my apologies if we have lost things you left in my 
possession.  We would like to see if we can't round up the missing pieces 
at this point.

Posters and presentations-there are a still a number of posters and 
presentations missing.  Check the website to see if you are one of 
them--everything that we have is linked.
It would be really valuable to have a complete set.  You can use the 
contribute poster form to upload either posters or presentations.

Friday afternoon report outs--we are going to make an integrated summary of 
these discussions of Using Visualizations to Tell Stories and to Explore 
Data.  We are missing report outs from: Jim Slotta's Group, Kim Kastens' 
Group
As soon as we get these we will proceed with the summary and have it ready 
for your comment.

Saturday morning groups:  You can find the notes for all but one group 
linked to the program.  It would be a good idea to review these and let 
John McDaris know if you would like to suggest changes 
(jmcdaris at carleton.edu).

Saturday afternoon groups:  reports were not a primary responsibility for 
these groups.  However, it would be very nice to have the membership of 
each group and a short description of what you are doing in case others are 
interested in learning more about what you are doing.  We need this 
information for
David Uttal's group, Tanya's group, and the Technology group.

We are still working on a page of workshop highlights and a page of 
recommendations.  Those should be available for your input this week.

Jeff is going to work on matching up volunteers to create mini collections 
with the list of areas where visualizations were identified as a need (see 
Sat afternoon working group report outs).  Be thinking about topics you 
would like to take on and look to hear from him late this week or early 
next.

We are winding up with reimbursements for the people who rented cars and 
transported people to and from the airport.  If you have any outstanding 
questions in this area, please make sure that you contact Patt or me before 
the end of the week.  It takes about 2 weeks after we get the receipt 
before you get the check--so if it has been longer than that let us know so 
we can chase it down.

I am looking forward to hearing more about your thoughts about 
visualizations in geoscience education now that the workshop is behind us 
and we are back to our everyday lives.  I am also looking forward to 
hearing about progress in the working groups.  Don't forget to write to the 
list!

It is still as you left us here-snow on the ground, highs in the 30's.  I 
hope you are all enjoying warmer weather and more signs of spring!

Cathy







Cathryn A. Manduca
Director, Science Education Resource Center
Carleton College
Northfield, MN  55057
507 646-7096
cmanduca at carleton.edu
serc.carleton.edu