ESIP Teacher Workshop First to Access CIMSS Library iPads
With support from NOAA NESDIS, Margaret Mooney from CIMSS/SSEC organized a teacher workshop at the summer meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) in Madison, Wisconsin, 17 - 18 July 2012. The workshop themes were climate literacy and technology.
Participating middle and high school science teachers were the first to borrow one of thirty iPads from the CIMSS iPad Library, a new program where educators can borrow iPads like books for an entire school year! Several climate-related apps were presented and shared at the workshop, but the favorite by far was SatCam where users make observations of local cloud and surface conditions coordinated with polar orbiting satellites.
Coincidentally, the first observation the teachers made with their new iPads involved the Suomi-NPP satellite.
Teachers with iPads and the resulting SatCam observation.
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a consortium of scientific organizations that collect, interpret and develop applications for remotely sensed data. This summer the ESIP education committee invited regional science teachers to meet in Madison, Wisconsin, to learn about efforts to study and steward our planet.
For more information, contact Margaret Mooney.
