1 South Jersey Watershed Website Volunteer Monitoring Summit NJDEP, Oct 1-2, 2004 Jess W. Everett Rowan University Glassboro, NJ, USA
Mar 27, 2015
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South Jersey Watershed Website
Volunteer Monitoring SummitNJDEP, Oct 1-2, 2004
Jess W. Everett
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ, USA
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Overview
Distributed Sharing Communities SJ Watershed
Website
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Distributed Sharing Communities
Communities of learners sharing information over the Internet– Peers– Professional and lay– Faculty and students
Content is contributed by multiple people, at different times and from multiple locations– Links, Documents, Pictures, Evaluations, Lists,
Guides, Data,…
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Amazon.com
Listen to bits of songs View example book
pages Read/add product
reviews and ratings Offer advice on
products (“So you’d like to…”)
Submit lists of preferred products (“Listmania!”)
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Wikipedia.org
Goal - complete and accurate free content encyclopedia
Readers can – start own pages– edit existing pages– add images– comment on pages
As of January 2004, 190,000 articles in English version
(source: www.amazon.com)
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SJ Watershed Website
http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/ Acount driven, active webpage Guest and Users
– Can view most of the site Contributors
– Can contribute content, links, and data– Access to more Pages
Administrator– Manages layout and account via forms
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SJ Watersheds Home
Guests and Users
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Guest and User Pages
Watershed– Watershed websites, watershed literature
SJ Data– Data on South
Jersey watersheds Education
– Education websites or educational literature
Resources – Online watershed
resources Students
– Student activities / Student handouts
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Watershed Page - Guest
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SJ Data - Guest
•Reach Characterization Data
•Water Quality Data
•Photos
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Teacher Page - Contributor
Add content with these links
Student Activities – Teachers Copy
Quickly access related student handout
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Data Entry - Contributor
Contributors upload data and pictures for their watershed
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Resources Page - Administrator
Anyone that owns a link can edit, delete, or crosslink it
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Administrator Page
The administrator can customize the site
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Conclusions
Harness the power of the internet to share information between
– Faculty – Students– Professionals– Activists– Decision-
makers– K-12 Teachers– Citizens
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Acknowledgements
Initial development of the Engineering City Software was funded by US NSF, grant No. 9980887.
The Watershed Project is supported by the US EPA. A number of faculty have also worked on this project,
DeMond Miller, Joe Orlins, John Hasse, and Kauser Jahan.
Special thanks to all of the Rowan University students who have contributed.
http://nebula.eng.rowan.edu:85/