cc: date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:01:27 -0500 from: "Pam Hines" subject: Re: Scope and global warming to: "Marcia Triunfol" , Dear Peter, We would be quite interested in seeing how the class you're working with could make use of this resource we're developing. As Marcia said, we're getting close, but we don't have the global-warming module up yet. It should begin to come together in about a month. Maybe, even if the timing doesn't meet your particular lecture, perhaps the class could find it useful a little bit later. It would be very helpful to us to hear how it goes, and opinions for improvement. Here's the drift of it: We take one paper recently published in SCIENCE, and build extra material around it. The material includes: interactive glossary annotations explaining the SCIENCE paper brief summaries of important scientific achievements related to the paper (historical timeline, covering back to 1800s or earlier) SiteBites: selection and review of a few useful Web sites on related topics Commentary: an original essay written about the topic (this is what you wrote, Peter) Editor's Choice: selection and summary of related recent published papers Reference database: collection of related references Curriculum projects: ideas for teaching the content to younger students (gradeschool). We also intend to promote on-line discussion: each page offers the opportunity for the viewer to enter his/her comments, and to view other comments related to the same material. The homepage for SCOPE is http://scope.educ.washington.edu/. You will find there (on the left) links to the Keystone projects, which is what we're currently developing. The Keystone-genomics project is almost finished, and is available at http://scope.educ.washington.edu:2002/ (I think that you should be able to log in as a 'guest'- - if that doesn't work, let me know). Certainly genomics isn't your topic, but if you care to take a quick look through that module, you'll see what we envision for the global-warming module. Now, in terms of using material before we are up-and-running with the global-warming module, the SCIENCE paper that we chose to work with is already published, and thus can be used in the same way you might use any other SCIENCE magazine paper (see Volume 290, Number 5499, Issue of 15 Dec 2000, pp. 2133-2137). Your own Commentary is something that you could distribute in the context of a classroom, as a 'draft' manuscript. I don't think that sort of usage runs afoul of the copyright agreement. It would be great to see how the class makes use of our module, and we'll try to get it up-and-running very soon. Thanks, Pam Hines Pamela J. Hines, Ph.D. tel. 202-326-6509 Senior Editor, SCIENCE FAX 202-289-3649 1200 New York Ave. NW e-mail phines@aaas.org Washington, DC 20005 USA www.sciencemag.org >>> Peter Thorne 01/15/02 02:22PM >>> At 14:06 15/01/02 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Peter, > >Things are a little slow now and the global warming module will be >available somewhere around March or April. Thanks for the update. >Do you think you will still be teachning by then? Its a single lecture to third year undergraduates studying a climate change course run by the Climatic Research Unit covering things like the instrumental record, climate modelling, detection, proxy climate measures etc. We are supposed to provide one reference per lecture, and the scope paper would be perfect, but I guess there are copyright issues. The course itself runs through until after easter, but my lecture date is quite fixed as I understand it. > It would be intersting to see how the module would work for undergraduates. Well, if you want to use a trial run through them I'm sure this would be possible if we could sort any copyright issues out. Its a class of about 15-25 and they should all have some meteorological background. I'm cc'ing in the course convenor for information. I guess we'd need to know more about the module and how my bit fits into it, but if you think its a runner I'd be interested to hear from you. My understanding is that the module is an online resource so they would read it in their own time. Could be a nice use of technology and provide some feedback to you as well as giving them a range of views on the detection issue. >I'll let you know more details as soon as possible. Thanks a lot Peter -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Thorne Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit Met. Office UEA Bracknell Norwich RG12 2SY NR4 7TJ +44 1344 856552 +44 1603 592235 Peter.Thorne@metoffice.com Peter.Thorne@uea.ac.uk http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~petert +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++