Summerworkshop (July99)

TIMING:
  Jun-Dawn gone
  Jul-after 2-3
  Aug-Besse not

WHO:
  Karen, Dawn, Besse 
  Ray, Robin, Langdon, NCEAS, Natural History, UCSB
  and more (Steve-Wisc/TEA on ship; Barb Wash State/MCM; Stepahnie 2wkNY+Rice)

WHERE:
  NCEAS/ICESS

GOAL: to plan and initiate schoolyard LTER 
      as well as to consider future directions

NEEDS: 
  -funding support limitation
  -sustainability

OBJECTIVES:
  -develop activites to use data sets
  -unit on pi's associated with datasets
  -longterm parts
  -grant proposal
  -history of dataset like doing a history of oceanography
  -LFA Palmer Station be closed
  -biodiversity counts
  -SEAGO: society for Explorers
  -TEA online PPT
  -weather unit PPT
  -AJ article
  -NCEAS unit
  -methods technology
  -develop modules
  -consider alternative modules
  -future funding proposals-avenues
  -collaborations
  -assessment strategies
       survey students before do weather module and after
       greg kelly-presentations on inquiry based lessons?
	  what are efective methods to evaluate packages & processes
       evaluation template for each module
       evaluate with texas instrument
  -distribution alternatives (ie home schooling)
  -schoolyard network growth (Texas, NCEAS, NTL)

PRODUCTS:
  weather module
  critical path chart (slow/long)
  proposal outlines