International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments
In Association with eSI Thematic Programme: Adoption of e-Research Technologies
23 May, 07 09:30 AM - 24 May, 07 05:00 PM
at the e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
What is the Access Grid?
"This is a tutorial resource to explain Access Grid to Social Scientists and others who may wish to use this collaborative technology in their research or to further other goals. " From the NCeSS.
What is the Grid?
"What is the Grid? is a basic introduction to Grid computing, its origins, how it works, and current-day Grid services and applications that are enhancing social-science research." From the UK National Centre for e-Social Science.
Friday, December 01, 2006
GPS Visualizer - Data Visualisation Tool
GPS Vizualiser is a really useful (free - donations) service for generating visualisations of GPS data. Can be used to map data to locations, for example the Hawaii earthquake and aftershock map, to see more examples click here...
"Do-It-Yourself Mapping - GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagging, etc.)."
"Do-It-Yourself Mapping - GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagging, etc.)."
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
eScience in and beyond the classroom
Have at look at the pre-workshop blog for the e-Science 2006 "eScience in and beyond the classroom" workshop.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Fire up the young Einsteins - e-Science Projects in the News
Interact & IDEAs educational e-Science projects feature in Times Higher ICT supplement (20/10/2006). Olga Wojtas reports on how successful uses of e-Science can benefit both pupils and researchers and bring the "wow" factor back to school science.
Our public understanding project involved school children in live chat with scientists in the Antarctic and the SENSE project had young learners collecting and reflecting on local pollution data using sophisticated handheld sensors and advanced software tools.
Work is now needed to make GRID technology more usable and e-Science more accessible to schools (see e-Science in and Beyond the Classroom: Usability, Practicability and Sensability at e-Science '06). Keep an eye on our 2007 "Towards making GRID-enabled schools' eScience usable and useful" project here.
Our public understanding project involved school children in live chat with scientists in the Antarctic and the SENSE project had young learners collecting and reflecting on local pollution data using sophisticated handheld sensors and advanced software tools.
Work is now needed to make GRID technology more usable and e-Science more accessible to schools (see e-Science in and Beyond the Classroom: Usability, Practicability and Sensability at e-Science '06). Keep an eye on our 2007 "Towards making GRID-enabled schools' eScience usable and useful" project here.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Digital Science: exploring new technologies in science education
Went to the Digital Science Event at the London Science Learning Centre on 17th Oct. Picked up some links to stuff that might be interesting:
Science Across the World "Exploring science locally - sharing science globally".
Science Supremo "is an ‘edu-game’ that offers young people studying GCSE Science an opportunity to get a feel for what it means to be a scientist and to understand the interplay between science and society. It is mapped to the new GCSE curricula". More... Made by desq "e-learning and learning games that blend the best of new media with education, entertainment, learning and play."
beep Nicely designed site leading to resources and fairly open-ended activities "to support the teaching and learning of bioethics."
National Academy for Gifted and Talented
Sodarace - design and race animated robots online. "Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit. AI researchers in London and Austria are racing the first machine-optimised models, and winning! The race above shows the London team's artificially evolved amoeba beating similar models made by humans. Follow their progress... see if human model makers make a comeback!"
Science Across the World "Exploring science locally - sharing science globally".
Science Supremo "is an ‘edu-game’ that offers young people studying GCSE Science an opportunity to get a feel for what it means to be a scientist and to understand the interplay between science and society. It is mapped to the new GCSE curricula". More... Made by desq "e-learning and learning games that blend the best of new media with education, entertainment, learning and play."
beep Nicely designed site leading to resources and fairly open-ended activities "to support the teaching and learning of bioethics."
National Academy for Gifted and Talented
Sodarace - design and race animated robots online. "Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit. AI researchers in London and Austria are racing the first machine-optimised models, and winning! The race above shows the London team's artificially evolved amoeba beating similar models made by humans. Follow their progress... see if human model makers make a comeback!"
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