• About AMIDST
• Digital story telling
• Geoscience content
• Diversity

• About the school
• The Joy team
• Teachers workshop
• Field trip
• Class practicum
• Student products

• About the schools
• The Nome team
• Teachers workshop
• Field trip
• Class practicum
• Student products

• Assessment
• Publications
• Photo gallery
• External links

• Partners
• Contacts

Teachers Workshop

The Nome teachers and technical staff had already received a training on digital story telling and had worked with Jason Ohler in the past. The September 2008 workshop in Fairbanks was therefore completely devoted to the geoscience content knowledge and hands-on training activities.

Geoscience Content Workshop

The geoscience workshop was conducted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on September 26 and 27, 2008. Besides the AMIDST project personnel, it was attended by the Nome participant teachers, school technology staff, native elder, UAF scientists and subject experts on the topics of climate change, sea-lake ice, GPS and geospatial science, and gold in Nome . its origin, transportation, accumulation, exploration and mining.

The workshop included technical presentations, demonstrations, hands-on activities, interactive discussions and brainstorming sessions, and a trip to a gold mining area in Ester, close to Fairbanks.

• Original workshop flyer with agenda. (PDF: 34 K)
• Climate Change and Impact in the Arctic: presentation by Martin Jeffries
• Earth System Science: presentation by Anupma Prakash. (PDF: 3.6 M)
• Remote Sensing for Studying Earth Surface and Changes: presentation by Anupma Prakash. (PDF: 3.6 M)
• Gold in Nome: Key Concepts by Rainer Newberry and Anupma Prakash. (PDF: 45 K)
• Additional photos of the geoscience workshop are included in the photo gallery.