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CarboSchools embraced by EPOCA
Philippe Saugier
CarbonSchools EU coordinator
CarboOcean
Ocean Acidification educational resources
(by EPOCA, CarboSchools & others)
1) background resources for schools, aquaria & science centers
(goal = learn the basics about OA & EPOCA research):
- 4 introductory posters
- 8-page pdf for teachers
- Virtual OA lab developed within the Inquiry2Insight project
- Eur-Oceans movie & Plymouth animation
2) worksheets describing hands-on experiments illustrating OA
(for presentations by museum staff during public visits or school
workshops)
- to be progressively developed through the Carboschools library
3) Arctic blog June 2010 / new contents, video-conferences.
Introductory posters for schools, aquaria & science centers
www.epocaarctic2009.wordpress.com
Helen Findlay, Hannah Wood & Steeve Comeau
Blog contributors also included: Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Fred Gazeau,
Bonnie Laverock, Sandra Treydte, Steve Widdicombe and Zora Zittier
The Science
The Experiments
The People
People Pages
Blogs on fieldwork
Blogs on lab work
Blogs on Arctic life
Total views: 9844 (updated 24/06/09)
Busiest day: 362 - Wednesday 29th April 2009
Where did people find out about the blog?
EPOCA website
273
Wordpress tags
108
Facebook (!)
78
Ocean Acidification blog
25
French sites
24
PML website
21
German sites
12
Others
10
Italian sites
3
TOTAL Referrers
554 (updated 24/06/09)
What were the top Pages?
Home
1908
The People
424
The Experiments
178
The Science
111
Why study the polar regions
61
The great biological unknowns 58
TOTAL page hits
6091 (updated 24/06/09)
What were the top Blog Posts?
Preparing for bears
114
Hard life in the arctic II
113
Diving in the arctic
106
Mud, mud glorious mud
100
Total English (18 posts made)
1043
Total German (9 posts made)
716
Total French (11 posts made)
371
TOTAL hits on blog posts
2130 (updated 24/06/09)
Feedback
Positive
• Large number & variety of blogs written
• Blogs were interesting and informative
• Easy to set up and use
• Several different languages were used
Negative
• Complicated layout – too many pages?
• Need more interaction with schools
• Different blogs in different languages seemed to confuse teachers
Lessons for the future…
• Keep it simple!
• Translate each blog into several different languages ???
• Lots of pictures and videos
• More interaction with schools
• More question-answer opportunities for students
Many thanks to all involved, particularly…
Hannah Wood
Philippe Saugier
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Steeve Comeau
Lina Hansson
Steve Widdicombe
Fred Gazeau
Zora Zittier
Bonnie Laverock
Sandra Treydte
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING,
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?!
www.epocaarctic2009.wordpress.com