Title: Introduction to (online) citizen science / Science for All, and All for Science
Course Home: http://agile-dawn-4975.herokuapp.com/ (http://citizenscience.p2pu.org )
Todo:
- FG - Get buy-in from the Lab network
- Find a lead person / What are we looking for
- 50% role
- Manage the overall course
- Schedule seminars, facilitate seminars
- Support online community discussion on discourse
- Write and send out weekly emails
- Fix URL/DNS for Discourse
- Update course copy
- Build outline of week-by-week activities
- DONE - Add video to front-page
- Switch discourse webserver to nginx
- DONE - Background Image: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/40/111003432_c8f39cb476_o.jpg
People:
- Darlene Cavalier (ASU/Scistarter)
- @schmidtphi - Philipp Schmidt ps1@media.mit.edu
- @jqnatividad - Joel Natividad
- @MobileMaggie - Margaret Gold margaret@tmc.bz
- @francoisgrey - Francois Grey
- @teleyinex - Dani
- no twitter - Jacob Sherson sherson@phys.au.dk - Quantum Computer Game
Other People to follow up with:
- Alan Lightman (Physics / Writing @ MIT)
- Jin (NYU) - Crowdcrafting project (get contact from Dani)
How are we going to get the word out?
- Leverage the participating communities (send them an announcement)
- Work with interns from Imperial College
- Leverage the Citizen Cyberlab community & broadcast channels (Margaret)
- ditto Citizen Cyberscience Centre
What is this course about? Why would I take it?
- I've heard about this new thing called citizen science, I want to learn more about it
- I am a citizen, I am interested in science, I want to start working as a scientist - Learn about communities and projects that help me get started
Format
- 4-6 weeks
- Video introduction / seminar for a citizen science project
- Activity -> Go to a citizen science project, get your hands dirty, reflect and share with the community
Content
(I started moving these over into discourse / and deleting them from the list below)
Week 1 - Introduction
- Background resources:
- What are motivations for citizens to get involved?
- How to connect to the audience?
Week 2 - Volunteer Sensing
- Project Ideas: Project Noah / EpiCollect / Track Your Trash
- Seminar:
- What grabbed you?
- Activity:
- Background resources:
Week 3 - Volunteer Thinking
- Project Ideas: Lichens / Vizzuality
- Seminar:
- What grabbed you?
- Activity:
- Background resources:
Week 4 - Volunteer Computing
- Seminar: Francois Grey (Computing for Clean Water) / David Anderson (BOINC) / Jacob Sherson (Quantum Computer Game) (see bottom for background info on quantum computer game)
- What grabbed you?
- Activity:
- Background resources:
Week 6 - From course to community / Where to next?
- Seminar: Darlene Cavalier (ASU/Scistarter)
- Activity: Go to SciStarter, create an account - find more info there
Parking Lot:
(Optional) Week - How to start your own citizen science project
Week x - Track Your Trash
- Seminar: Nickolas (ITP)
- What grabbed you?
- Activity:
- Background resources:
Week x - Money & Germs
- Seminar:
- Activity:
- Background resources:
Citizen science (also known as crowd science, crowd-sourced science, or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists, often by crowdsourcing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science
Software we use to host the course:
Others stuff:
System Info:
User account details are at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PtXgYrEsOedcM9yg5X1rgCGtEbk3i12YE5FQEEeqs9w/edit (request access)
MOOC: (http://citizenscience.p2pu.org -> ) http://agile-dawn-4975.herokuapp.com/ - heroku app owner is Philipp
DISCOURSE: http://54.227.248.5 (Still need to set up DNS record)
Runs on AWS - Ubuntu Linux 64 in a small instance
Webserver: used "thin start" method instead of nginx
sudo thin -d -p 80 -u discourse start
Using discourse linux user - /home/discourse/discourse
Current discourse admin - joel.natividad@ontodia.com and Philipp (philipp@p2pu.org)
HOME PAGE COPY
The Citizen Cyberscience Centre & P2PU Present...
- An Introduction to Citizen Science 'Science for All, and All for Science' - A course for science enthusiasts, scientists, technologists, and educators interested in Citizen Science
- > About this course
- > Week by week outline
- > FAQ
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About Page
Science for All, and All for Science is an introductory course about citizen science.
This course has been designed to give you a grounding in Citizen Science, the range of fields and contexts to which it can be applied, and how it can contributes to both science and learning. We hope it will appeal to a range of people, from to citizens with an interest in science to scientists with an interest in volunteer participation. We will highlight a number of amazing citizen science projects that you can get involved in right now, and maybe even inspire you to launch a project of your own. The course will provide you with more background information about the science behind these projects, and introduce you to a number of the scientists involved.. By the end of the course you will have tackled a number of science projects and you'll be well on your way to becoming a citizen scientist (if you aren't already).
The course is broken into 6 week modules. Each week, we will host an online seminar (using Google Hangouts) with some of the leading thinkers and doers in the field, and then offer a number of activities that let you dive deeper. All of the course content will be stored in our discussion forum (each week is one category).
Instead of a professor or university organizing the class, our e-mail scheduler will do it--that’s why it’s mechanical.
Activities
