NCDC

Team Members: Steve M. Carlson, Mark Lackey, Sam McCown, Claude Williams, and Betsy Youngman

Meeting Room:

Pre-meeting Sharing Space

Please introduce yourself to your team members. Give a brief description of your role in facilitating the use of data in education. You can also post links, files, or images.

April 17th: Conference call with Tamara Ledley, Betsy Youngman, Steve Carlson, Claude Williams, Sam McCown and Mark Lackey. Determined Mark will be Notetaking Coordinator (with help from Betsy) and Sam will act as Team Facilitator. Claude gave explanation of our plan to demonstrate the usage of the USHCN Version 2 Serial Monthly Data set at the AccessData workshop using the Health of the Network online web system and Climate at a Glance online web system from the NCDC web site

April 28: Here is the DataSheet posted by Sam McGown (Microsoft Word 91kB Apr28 08) before the meeting.

April 30th: Arrived at Embassy Suites and met Tamara Ledley, Tina Campbell and a few others.

Session 1 - Thursday Morning
Meet your team members. Learn about the data, tools, and expertise represented on your team. Review DataSheet(s) and explore data and tools.

Team members meet each other and share their experiences and viewpoints on using data in education. Review and discuss DataSheet(s) begun by the data representative(s) for your team. Explore datasets and tools and consider how the expertise on the team can complement them. If you haven't already done so, narrow down the range of datasets the team is considering using to a manageable number.

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Claude Williams gave description of HCNv2 adjustments.

Discussed presenting the necessity of the HCNv2 adjustments OR just presenting usages of the data w/Health of The Network, Climate Reference Network, Climate at A Glance and other web systems OR doing both. Final decision was to cover both.

Viewed "US HCN Temperature Trends: A brief overview" Power Point slide presentation from Claude. Discussed Time of Observation bias, Pairwise technique, and siting adjustments.

Session 2 - Thursday Afternoon
Brainstorm data-use storylines

Brainstorm a set of possible storylines for valid investigations of the dataset(s) you have selected. Come up with at least one compelling scenario that will give users a reason to work through the technological steps necessary to perform an analysis of the data.

The Activity Outline Guide (Microsoft Word 42kB Apr9 08) provides an outline for the minimum information needed for the team's activity outline.

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Steve Carlson went over "Water In The Earth System" website at http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/WES/home.html.

Reviewed HCNv1 at CDIAC website and discussed 3200 data and Health of the Network on NCDC website.

Day 1 Evaluation Survey.

Sessions 3 and 4 - Friday Morning
Select a data-use scenario and perform a proof-of-concept check

Use the complementary expertise on the team to check that the task you are envisioning can actually be completed in an educational setting. Identify a target grade level for the activity and choose a working title.

Please limit the scope of the activity to tasks that can be accomplished by accessing existing data and tools. Discuss and agree upon the content limits of the activity as well. Consider that the major goal of these activities is to develop user familiarity with the data and tools.

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Betsy's questionnaire (see files). Discussing order of lesson plan for students. Navigation of NCDC website with respect to lesson plan. NCDC Map tool usage, etc.

Sessions 5 and 6 - Friday Afternoon
Develop your case study storyline and outline the procedures for data access and analysis Case Study Development

Record ideas, bullet points, or actual text that will become part of the case study to introduce users to the issues and concepts of the activity. Gather links for appropriate images, diagrams, and background text.

Data Access and Analysis Procedures

Record the name and URL of all datasets and access/analysis software tools to be used. List the major tasks users will complete, then perform a deliberate walk-through of each task to capture the full sequence of procedures. Give special attention to the most difficult or least intuitive steps, and note points in the sequence where additional information will be helpful.

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Continue with fleshing out lesson plan approach. Developed Power Point Slides for Report Outs.

Session 7 - Saturday Morning
Enhance your step-by-step procedures by adding "About" sections that provide extra information; List several ideas for "Going Further" with the data or tools

Fill in any gaps in your activity outline and add sections that can help users make meaning of the data. Suggest several ideas for the "Going Further" section that challenge users to work with the data and/or tools in other investigations. These suggestions provide launching points for scientific inquiry which is facilitated by the skills learned in the activity.

Add Session 7 Notes here: Working on PPT slides, fine tuning presentation. Established task list for

post-workshop tasks:

Put all files on Wiki (Mark)

Sheets existing of step-by-step from picture of NWS sites & airport equipment weather (Sam)

Provide a blank graph for students to use in predicting and make a Health of the Network page that has a variety of stations from around the country. (Claude).

Session 8 - Final Team Breakout
Finalize your Activity outline and DataSheet, Generate PowerPoint slides for the report out session, Upload all resources to this page

Create a 2- or 3-slide ppt file for the report out session.

• Slide 1: Team name, names of team members, and a brief phrase to describe each individual's contribution
• Slide 2: Working title for your activity, names of dataset(s) and tool(s) utilized
• Slide 3: Your choice of something to illustrate your team's vision of the completed activity

Attach the file plus any other documents produced by the team to this page. Include final versions of the team's DataSheet.

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