Development process

10-minute VS party

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2012-05-10 09:11
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I experimented last week with a different webinar approach - a PARTY! of sorts - that would give educators a quick overview of the website enhancements, and serve as a quick refresher just before the start of the spring field season.

New look, new tools

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2012-05-03 11:55
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    You've all probably noticed that the website looks different, feels different, acts differently than it did the last time you played around with it. Here's an official run-down of the changes we launched on March 16, 2012. Since 2009, we've spent a lot of time listening and watching how the site has been used, and hope you find these updates as motivating and useful as we do. Special thanks to Misty, Liem, Neil, and Dana from Image Works for their heroic efforts pulling this off in time for the spring field season!

August 2011 Educator Institutes

Submitted by gmri on Mon, 2011-08-29 16:44
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    August was a busy month for the Vital Signs community and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Education Group. We concluded the summer with two educator institutes. In the first two weeks of the month, two different and equally engaged and phenomenal groups of educators came through the doors of the big gray building on Commercial Street. Check out some of what we did!

And the winner is...

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2011-05-12 13:51
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We had 44 surveys completed for our Equipment Use inquiry last week. Thank you so much for your rapid and helpful responses! We'll be using them to streamline our new Lending Library. More on that soon.

The lucky winner of the GPS drawing is.....

OOSE on the Loose

Submitted by gmri on Sat, 2011-04-16 13:37
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    Thursday, April 14th, 2011 was a great step for the Vital Signs team, and a greater step for the Vital Signs community. We had 16 out-of-school educators (OOSE) here at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute ready and raring to learn about the Vital Signs program and share their expertise on the informal education setting.

    Let's find out what the Vital Signs team thought about the training!

That slooow map

Submitted by gmri on Tue, 2011-03-08 12:26
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Once we hit 1,000 species observations in October that cool map of ours has started asking way too much of us, our time, our patience. We wait and wait while it takes its sweet old time rendering points, placing species markers ever so carefully from Grand Isle to Machias to York. So what's going on? What's the big fix?

Social Networking and Science Education

Submitted by gmri on Wed, 2011-03-02 12:53
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    Social Networking sites are powerful tools for change. To see the evidence that supports my claim, go to the New York Times website and do a search using the key words, “Social networking protests.” Articles about current and recent events in Libya, China, Egypt, Tunisia, North Korea and Iran fill your screen-- individuals and groups utilizing blogs, Facebook and Twitter to create spaces for ideas to form and evolve, to share ideas and to put ideas into action. According to the Huffington Post an Egyptian man recently named his daughter "Facebook" in honor of the role that the social networking site had on events there.

CSIC Teacher Training at Schoodic Point

Submitted by gmri on Fri, 2011-02-11 15:26
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    More on our shortest training to date!

    Last weekend, we conducted Vital Signs’ shortest training ever – seven teachers and we spent just 24 hours together! This training was the official kick-off of the dissemination phase of Citizen Science In Classrooms, a collaborative project of the Augusta Schools, GMRI, and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) funded under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Statistics and science literacy

Submitted by gmri on Mon, 2011-01-03 13:24
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A special guest post by Christine Voyer.

I have to say I love Facebook. It’s a great tool for planning outings, finding good books to read and movies to see, and getting to know what my friends and colleagues think about the world. I recently decided to utilize my Facebook account to solicit the thoughts of the amazing group of scientists that I have been lucky enough to get to know over the years.

Honorable mention

Submitted by gmri on Sat, 2010-10-30 13:25
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Vital Signs has recently been sneaking into speeches and presentations of big-deal thought leaders in education. Take a look....

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