Venturing

Venturing
BSA - CERT Bioneering
http://www.acctts.com/mnvalleywildlife/ati4ftl_eco-trek_2002-d04-6a_scenarion.htm

The USGS AmericaView Website will return July 1, 2003 to highlight the Infrastructure Development that has taken place over the last 5 years to reduce the barriers to remotely-sensed data. Please be patient as we prepare our new re-scoped website and send direct inquires to cdoesch@usgs.gov

Multi-Cultural
Challenges
1. CSCLIP Labs
  CIBERpac
  v-Learning

Earth Science
Space
Technology
Life Science

NSSL
SWAT

CERT Crew
Eco-Treks
RJB-Rev:2005-131am

Venturing BSA - Bioneering Program Prototype:
(Connecting Cause + Crisis + Consequence)

CERT = Conservancy Emergency Response Tutoring …
C = Conservation via Community Steward Leadership
E = Experience-based Environmental Education (Mn_SEEK)
R = Recreation, Renewal & Resiliency
T = Anticipatory Thinking / Team Transformation

EPIC Atlas
via MEEP

The Minnesota Environmental Atlas is an electronic textbook that delivers the best of Minnesota’s GIS data to education, government and citizens. Designed in cooperation with secondary and college instructors, the atlas contains more than 250 digital maps along with the software to retrieve and analyze the information. The atlas has been described as a tool “that will fundamentally change the way environmental education is taught in Minnesota classrooms.”

The EPIC Atlas is fast, easy-to-use and requires no formal GIS training. Instructors use the atlas to support lesson plans in environmental science, ecology, biology, geography and social studies. Digital maps address agriculture, climate, ecology, forestry, geology, hazards and events, land use cover, demographic change, soils and water resources themes.

The atlas also provides government units with an effective productivity tool to retrieve and analyze information. Analytical features allow maps to be compared side-by-side, merged together, statistically tabulated and re-colored. Users can measure distance, determine direction and graph elevation across aerial photos and topographic maps. The environmental atlas includes new composite data layers, hot links to Web sites and integration with online DNR data sets.

Minnesota Planning is working with the Minnesota Educational Effectiveness Program ( MEEP )
and others to distribute the atlas to educators and government organizations.
For more information, contact Jim Ramstrom at jim.ramstrom@state.mn.us or 651-296-2559.

MN Educational Effectiveness Program (MEEP) 
(651) 582-8759, Diane Cirksena, supervisor.
Assists districts, schools and teachers develop
and implement comprehensive and aligned curriculum
that increase student achievement and demonstration
of Minnesota Graduation Standards and continuous
improvement processes.

The office has regional coordinators around the state,
specialists at the department in St. Paul and statewide
networks which foster sharing of information and practices. 
 
MEEP Regional Coordinators: The mission of
MEEP (Minnesota Educational Effectiveness Program)
is to prepare schools for the implementation
of the graduation standards and Goals 2000. 
 
Region 1 Alvarado: Ken Henry (218) 773-0505 
Region 2 Virginia: Cindy Jindra (218) 741-0750 
Region 3 Duluth: Julie Williams-Finn (218) 723-4172 
Region 4 Fergus Falls: Barbara Hexum (218) 739-3273 
Region 5 Sartell: Sherry Grundman (320) 252-8427 
Region 6/8 Redwood Falls: Jay Haugen (507) 644-3511 
Region 6/8 Marshall: Debra Miller (507) 537-4060 
Region 7 Sartell: Sharon Tierney (320) 252-8427 
Region 9 North Mankato: Donna Oakey (507) 389-5104 
Region 10 Rochester: Pat Quade (507) 280-2969 
Region 11 St. Paul: Tom Benson (651) 215-0091 
Region 11 St. Paul: Cassie Erkens (651) 297-1670 
Region 11 St. Paul: Jeanne Klein (651) 297-7344 
Region 11 St. Paul: Marlys Peters (651) 297-2685 
Region 11 St. Paul: Martha Waibel (651) 297-7177
Cal-IT2 WISSARD

I just learned of a product, "Wireless Internet Information System for
Medical Response in Disasters" or "WIISARD", in development in San Diego-
tying together many data applications for locating and tracking victims,
injuries, and treatment in the event of a terrible event. Have you heard
of this, or if you are already working with professionals on this sort of
idea? (I wonder if they could also include environmental sampling data and
learn to what agents people have been exposed.) - Deb G

Here are a few news articles that explain the concept (via Bob Burkhart of
Earl Joseph's "Futurists" local organization):

WIISARD's Shield: Leslie Lenert Integrates IT and MD for Emergency
Response by Alex Lightman, Cal-(IT)©- Scholar 9.19.02 ...
< http://www.calit2.net/news/lightman/9-19-02_lenert.html >

[PPT] Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in ...
Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters
(WIISARD). The Funding Opportunity. ... networks. WIISARD. Patient
wireless devices. ...
< http://www.calit2.net/events/2002/homeland/presentations/08-22-02_lenert.ppt

... WIISARD, as the program is known, would provide everyone injured at
a disaster site with a radio-frequency tag containing details about
their injury ...
< http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20020904-9999_1n4terrorsi.html >

-END-

Deborah Recksiedler Grundmanis, MBA
Health Educator
Minnesota Department of Health
Environmental Health Division
121 E. Seventh Place, Suite #230
P. O. Box 64975
St. Paul, MN 55164-0975
email: deb.grundmanis@health.state.mn.us
www.health.state.mn.us
ph: 651-215-1323
fax: 651-215-0775
Networking for Social Justice
1. The Third Culture
  "What I want when kids get through a K to 12 education is for them
  to have a sense of what their society thinks is true, beautiful
  and good; false, ugly and evil;
  how to think about it and how to act on the basis of your thoughts ."
  1. Edu-Media
    Resources
    
    Oregon Public Broadcasting
    ... says the legislature may balance the state budget and end the 2003...
    ... NOW with Bill Moyers. ... NOW examines the apparent conflicts
    of interest of the number two ... https://www.opb.org/
    1. CrossRoads Cafe'
      1. PBS Eco-Community
        MindShifts
        
        Interview
        with Maya Lin
FT-IQuest

The Third
Culture
Contents

THE EMERGING THIRD CULTURE
http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/f-Introduction.html

The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized. A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s.

Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical.

It uses its own jargon and washes its own laundry. It is chiefly characterized by comment on comments, the swelling spiral of commentary eventually reaching the point where the real world gets lost

Digital Forum
Eco-Caching

GPS Keyword IQuest :
3 results found.
http://www.opb.org/search/search.php

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OFG #1208: Crater Lake Floor Mapping
/programs/ofg/1208/craterlake.htm
1. Crater Lake Floor Digital Mapping