Audio - Data - Learning materials - Portal - Services - Text - Tools - Visuals

Resource Type Vocabulary Explanations:

100 - Audio: A resource whose content is primarily audio or intended to be realized in audio (use for recorded items that have no visual component)

• Audio-Book: An audio recording of a book in print.
  
• Lecture: An audio recording of a speech or classroom instruction.
  
• Music: A recording of vocal, instrumental or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody or harmony.
  
• Oral history: Tape-recorded historical information obtained in interviews concerning personal experiences and recollections.
  
• Radio broadcast: A recording of a newscast, talk show or other oral presentation originally generated via the radio.
  
• Sound: Recorded auditory material (e.g. natural world, mechanical, noise, tones).
  
• Audio-Webcast: The audio component (only) of a broadcast that was captured digitally from the web (e.g. newscast, speech, interviews).
  
  

 Audio resources will be considered for review by JESSE subject to the normal content review criteria. Resources should be well documented and include a text based transcript if possible (or applicable).

200 - Data: Structured information encoded in lists, tables, databases etc., which will normally be in a format available for direct machine processing.

• Dataset-In-situ: Data measurements generated when the measuring instrument and the medium to be measured are in direct contact.
• Dataset-Remotely sensed: Data measurements generated when the measuring instrument and the medium to be measured are not in direct contact.
• Dataset-Model: Data generated by equations, computer models and numerical simulations.

 In general, JESSE will not accept resources which simply present measured or modeled data. However, resources are encouraged which present data in the context of a learning exercise dealing with Earth system topics (e.g with explanatory text about data gathering techniques, modeling details, data processing ...) as a stand alone learning resource.

300 - Learning Materials: Materials prepared for use by students or teachers in the classroom, field or other learning environment. Some of the following fit in a hierarchy with implied scope, specificity and length (e.g. from curriculum, to course, to module/unit, to lesson plan, to activity).

• Activity-classroom: Defined as a classroom-based task or exercise that students are asked to do, often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction-to help them develop particular skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad.
  
• Activity-computer: Defined as a computer-based task or exercise that students are asked to do, often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction-to help them develop particular skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad.
  
• Activity-field: Defined as a field-based task or exercise that students are asked to do, often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction-to help them develop particular or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad.
  
• Activity-lab: Defined as a laboratory-based task or exercise that students are asked to do, often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction-to help them develop particular skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad.
  
• Assessment: Materials that are designed to measure student learning (exams, questionnaires, quizzes) or to support teacher design or development of such materials (rubrics). Materials that support existing assessments (answer keys). Materials that relate to the philosophy of assessment (articles about performance and authentic assessment, for example).
  
• Case study: An intensive analysis of an individual unit (as a person or community) stressing developmental factors in relation to environment.
  
• Course: Defined as a sequence of instructional units, often a semester long, designed by a teacher (or a faculty or other group of teachers) to significantly advance student skills, knowledge, and habits of mind in a particular discipline and to help students meet specified requirements (as set forth in a curricula or district or state policy).
  
• Curriculum: Defined as a program of study. Examples include academic standards, (the knowledge, skills and habits of mind students are expected to acquire in particular grade levels or clusters of grade levels) and the units of instruction, often with sample lesson plans, illustrative student activities, and essential and supplementary resources that can help students reach standards. Curriculums are often designed at the state or school district level, but can also apply to a program of study required for a particular university or college-issued degree.
  
• Field trip guide: Directions or suggestions for learning experiences outside of the classroom, usually off-site, either in general or specific to a particular location.
  
• Instructor's guide: Supporting material for teachers regarding the use of learning materials with respect to learning objectives, classroom management, materials, assessment, and additional reference material.
  
• Lesson plan: Defined as a plan for helping students learn a particular set of skills, knowledge or habits of mind. Often includes student activities as well as teaching ideas, instructional materials, and other resources. Is shorter in duration than and often a part of a unit or module.
  
• Module/unit: Defined as a sequence of lesson plans designed to teach a set of skills, knowledge and habits of mind.
  
• Presentation/demo: A formal representation of ideas to others. Includes, but is not limited to, links to Powerpoint slides.
  
• Project: Activities organized around a particular academic topic. Goals and outcomes may be broad, and interaction with other classrooms via the Internet may be a component.
  
• Problem set: A series of tasks or questions posed to the student, as in a homework or other assignment.
  
• Syllabus: Outlines of courses and modules and their contents. General material describing a course or unit of study.
  
• Tutorial: A resource that provides guided, practical information about a specific subject.
  
• Virtual field trip: A series of on-line visual and text-based resources that mimic the field trip experience in an electronic setting.
  
  
  

 JESSE encourages the submission of electronic learning resource such as those listed above

Portal: The homepage that is the entrance to a large complex website holding a variety related resources, hosted by a single or group of related organizations. For example, www.nasa.gov.

• Educational: (e.g. .edu, .museum).
• For-profit: (.com, .biz).
• Government: (e.g. .gov).
• Military: (e.g. .mil).
• Non-profit: (e.g. .org, Museum).

 JESSE will not review portal sites, but can offer links to relevant sites through its companion site Earth System Science Online (itself a portal)

Services: A system that provides one or more functions of value to the end-user.

• Ask an expert: A site where one can submit questions for personal response to either an individual or group of people who have specific expertise in the area of interest.
  
• Clearinghouse: A site that offers links to other sites organized around a topic or topics. The linked sites are hosted by unrelated organizations.
  
• Forum/discussion: An interface where a group of individuals can engage in text-based talk about a particular subject. May or may not be synchronous.
  
• Listserv: Email based communications that are distributed to a member-based group of individuals via a single email address. Usually topic-focused.
  
• Message board: Interface whereby individuals can post information, requests or ideas for view by others.
  
• Search engine: Mechanism by which the WWW or some sub-component (such as single a website) is searched based on a specific query entered by the user.
  
  

 JESSE will not review service sites, but can offer links to relevant sites through its companion site Earth System Science Online

400 -Text:

• Abstract/summary: A condensed version of a larger piece of work, outlining the major points and conclusions.
  
• Annotation: Amazon.com type reviews or short instructor comments about a resource.
  
• Book/monograph: A long written composition (includes literature, technical documentation and guides, excluding field and instructor's guides).
  
• Glossary: A collection of specialized terms and their meanings.
  
• Journal article: Writings that appear in a periodical publication, often peer-reviewed and of an academic nature, sharing ideas or research results.
  
• Index/bibliography: A list (as of bibliographical information or citations to a body of literature) arranged usually in alphabetical order of some specified datum (as author, subject, or keyword); a list often with descriptive or critical notes of writings relating to a particular subject, period, or author; a list of works written by an author or printed by a publishing house; the works or a list of the works referred to in a text or consulted by the author in its production.
  
• Periodical: A publication that is produced on some predictable schedule, such as weekly, monthly or annually.
  
• Policy/procedure: A document containing statements or series of steps for particular way of accomplishing things.
  
• Proceedings: A collection or papers or abstracts presented at a specific meeting or event.
  
• Proposal: A formal document that outlines a specific project, recommendation, plan or idea.
  
• Reference: A work containing useful facts or information (e.g. user's guides, technical manuals)
  
• Report: Detailed account or statement, often outlining the results or events of a meeting or endeavor (e.g. review, evaluation)
  
• Thesis: Scholarly work as for an academic degree. Dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view; especially one written by a candidate for an academic degree.
  
• Editorial
  
• Book review

 JESSE will consider for review electronic text-based resources such as those listed above

500 - Tools: Aids in accomplishing a task.

• Calculation/conversion tool: (e.g. metric to English, satellite tracker)
• Software: Allows access, interactions with, or the ability to execute resources; it does not enhance another piece of software rather it stands alone, (e.g. tools to look at and analyze data or create learning materials).
• Code: Allows for the enhancement of the resource; it generally does not stand alone (e.g. numerical models, applets, computer code).

 JESSE will accept for review tools such as those listed, provided their use in a learning environment is well documented

600 - Visual: Content is primarily symbolic visual representation other than text

• Artistic illustration: Visuals not generated from data and not meant to illustrate a scientific concept or process (e.g. artistic drawing, animations, clip art, virtual tours).
  
• Imagery-remotely sensed: Imagery generated from measuring devices that are not in direct contact with the medium they are measuring (e.g. radar or satellite imagery).
  
• Map: 2-D representations of a single point in time or space that illustrate fairly static physical features (e.g. topos, soil, road, bedrock maps, etc.). For weather or forecast maps, use scientific visualization.
  
• Photograph:
  
• Scientific illustration: Still or animated images not based on data but meant to illustrate scientific concepts or processes (e.g. diagram, graph, figure, virtual reality).
  
• Scientific visualization: Visuals generated from data or model output (e.g. graphed or modeled, dynamic or static, physical or numerical, data, simulations, animations, weather forecast or streamflow maps).
  
• Video: (e.g. clips, interviews, lectures movies, etc.).
  
• Visual-Webcast:
  
  

Fri, Jan 25, 2002