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Group Members

Bruce Caron (Tool), Walt Meier (Tool), Frank Granshaw (Scientist), Omowumi Alabi (Educator), Shelly Olds (Educator), Betsy Youngman (Educator), Bob Arko (Data), David Herring (Group Facilitator), Mike Taber (Recorder)

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Breakout Session I: Immediate impact of the workshops

Questions to answer during this breakout session

1. What are the advantages that being a Workshop participant afforded you? For example (the purpose here is to explain or flesh out the details of the impacts):

a. Raised awareness of what exists/needed with respect to data and tools.
b. Networking (specifics)/contacts developed).

2. Were there any immediate changes in the way you thought about or conducted your job as a result of your participation in your workshop?

3. Are there any aspects regarding the logistics of the workshop itself (structure or facilitation) that you have used in other aspects of your job?

4. Did coming to the workshop allow you to make a new contact (networking) that facilitated new avenues for your work (i.e., new collaboration)?

Breakout Session II: Long-term impact of the workshops

Questions to answer during this breakout session

1. How has participation in the workshops impacted the way you have used/prepared geoscience data or tools in/for education? What are you currently doing that illustrates the impact(s)? (These may not all apply to you but depending on your job you may have input into all of them.)

a. Creating educational materials in your own way.
b. Creating education friendly interfaces to data.
c. Identifying other educationally useful data.
d. Developed or modified analysis tools.

2. How has your participation in the workshop helped you overcome barriers (identify them) to educational uses of data and data analysis tools?

3. For educators/curriculum developers...How has your participation in the workshop helped you interact with the scientific community/technical community? How has your participation in the workshop helped you interact with students?

4. For scientific/technical community ...How has your participation in the workshop helped you interact with the educators/curriculum developers? How has your participation in the workshop helped you interact with students?

5. Was there a benefit from participation in multiple workshops (if you did) and if so explain?

Breakout Session III – Long-term Sustainability for Data Access and Educational Use – Continuing the AccessData Workshop Model

(Questions subject to change, based on results from the first two breakout sessions)


Based on six years of workshop evaluation results and the most recent survey, it is apparent that we have developed a successful model for building and facilitating collaborative expert teams for the purpose of creating educational relevant materials. Thus, we want to know:


1. Have you tried to implement this kind of model in your professional activities? Are they any elements of the DDS/AccessData model that you have utilized in your professional activities?

2. What methods can you suggest to sustain the DDS/AccessData workshop model (i.e., models for actively implementing the the whole model or elements of the model into existing or new venues/projects)?