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  • Science journalism and digital storytelling
    Date: 12/21/2011
    Resource Category!: Mass Media Article
    Among the most interesting aspects of the changes in the media ecosystem a leading role is played by the impact of digital and networking technologies on the ways news reports are built. In this Jcom commentary, the issues of the relationship between digital storytelling and professional news production will focus on science journalism. The ... »
  • Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums
    Date: 12/12/2011
    Resource Category!: Reference Materials
    Digital media and technology have become culturally and economically powerful parts of contemporary middle-class American childhoods. Immersed in various forms of digital media as well as mobile and Web-based technologies, young people today appear to develop knowledge and skills through participation in media. This MacArthur Report examines the ... »
  • Web 2.0 at the Museum of Life and Science: Final Report for the Take Two Institutional Research Study at the University of Washington
    Date: 12/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Evaluation Reports
    The Take Two Institutional Research Study was an ethnographic case study of the contributions of Web 2.0 philosophy and technologies to museum practice and staff development at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina. It used a naturalistic methodology to investigate staff members' relationships with each other and their publics ... »
  • Exploring the Use of New Media in Environmental Education Contexts: Introducing Visitors' Technology Use in Zoos Model
    Date: 12/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Modern zoological gardens have invested substantial resources in technology to deliver environmental education concepts to visitors. Investment in these media reflects a currently unsubstantiated belief that visitors will both use and learn from these media alongside more traditional and less costly displays. This paper proposes a model that ... »
  • STAR_Network: Library Education for Rural Communities presentation
    Date: 11/17/2011
    Resource Category!: Presentation Slides
    Presentation on NSF grant DRL-1010844 (""STAR Library Education Network: A Hands-on Learning Program for Libraries and Their Communities"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011. ... »
  • Gigapixel Cyberinfrastructure for Participatory Science Learning
    Date: 11/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE), the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University are building an open access cyberlearning infrastructure that employs super high-resolution gigapixel images as a tool to support public understanding, ... »
  • Radiolab: What Curiosity Sounds Like Discovering, Challenging, And Sharing Scientific Ideas
    Date: 10/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This project is designed to bridge the "public understanding of science" radio model with a "public engagement with science" approach using a new public media tool - the "Public Insight Network". Radiolab, an innovative hour-long radio program has developed a highly innovative and successful format over the past 5 years that fosters interest and ... »
  • RAPID: Underwater Robotics Applied To STEM Education: A Time-Sensitive Discovery In Marine Archeology
    Date: 10/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) and The Watermen's Museum, Yorktown, VA, will produce an underwater robotics research and discovery education program in conjunction with time-sensitive, underwater archeological research exploring recently discovered shipwrecks of General Cornwallis's lost fleet in the York River. The urgency of the ... »
  • CRPA: Communicating Avatars: Artificial Intelligence + Computer Graphics = Innovative Science
    Date: 10/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This CRPA project produced a human-like avatar exhibit for the Orlando Science Center that verbally communicates with middle and high school grade visitors, engaging them in the subjects of computer science, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Human-like characteristics include features to match the demographics of the Center's clientele and ... »
  • PBS NewsHour: STEM Learning For Adults, Teens And At-Risk Populations
    Date: 09/15/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The PBS NewsHour STEM Learning project is a broadcast and online science journalism and informal science education initiative to report breaking science news and cutting-edge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) research and researchers to a national audience. The multi-platform project goals are to: (1) increase and improve the ... »

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