Yes, It is my last day of work for this semester because I'm going home for the summer. I'm honestly a bit sad because we are just beginning put the project together. Carrie will probably be the one to continue on with the outline and the Power point project throughout the summer so in that respect I'm pretty excited to see what she and the summer student worker come up with!
Today I worked on expanding the current outline and adding in the citations to make it easier for whoever continues on with what I'm doing now. I am trying to decide how I want to explain climate change as a whole because it is quite a broad topic. Dr. Dastoor talked about The Gaia hypothesis today in class which makes me think I want to incorporate that type of idea. The Gaia Hypothesis was developed by James Lovelock in the early 1970's which explains that the globe's living and nonliving parts are all just part of a complex interaction between systems that make up one functioning "organism". To put in layman's terms, everything part of the world is connected and interact. So when that means that the changes happening in the Arabian sea ultimately effect the entire globe.
I will be working with Carrie and Dr. Chai again in the fall. By then we should have the early stages of the project completed and the modules in our possession. We'll likely be working on testing out the outreach project on local students.
Early on in the week when Carrie and I were talking about the outline, Carrie mentioned that we want to be able to package up our project in a way that teachers will eventually be able to use our packet and computer program in their classrooms. So at the moment, I want to be thinking of the outline in a linear storyboard way, and also in a "chose you own adventure" type way.
Friday, May 2, 2008
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