Scientist-Educator Collaborative Workshop Workshop Evaluation: OCI/CMB Tools

Held at the New England Center on the University of New Hampshire Campus Friday, March 13, 2009 through Saturday, March 14, 2009

Regarding questions about the Ocean-Climate Interactive (OCI) and Concept Map Builder (CMB) online tools, the reactions were very positive. Everyone seemed to feel that the tools would be helpful in communicating ocean-climate concepts to audiences and in creating good lessons and presentations. The highest rating from these workshop participants was in the usefulness of the Ocean-Climate Interactive to help them find good education resources about ocean and climate concepts. To view the charts on this page as a PDF [172 KB], click here.

Watch a video of educator Julianne Mueller-Northcott discuss the benefits of the Ocean-Climate Interactive's resource of ocean and climate assets.

Quotes from Workshop Participants

"I'm looking forward to playing with it for all my classes, even when they don't have anything to do with oceans or climate."

"The quality of the assets available is excellent."

"There are lots of maps in the system that I could use to demonstrate [a given concept]. More importantly I could have students develop their own maps using the COSEE assets."

"Not all students learn the same - the workshop [offered an] excellent variety of graphs, videos, pictures, and articles, in a place that is easy to find."