Become a LEADER in Developmental Biology

Education! Tutorial: Submitting learning/teaching objects for the

SDB digital library

Diana Darnell: SDB/LEADER Archivist

What is LEADER? Library of Educational Annotated DEvelopmental biology ResourcesA searchable, peer-reviewed, collection of digital Learning Objects

available through:

Why Have LEADER? Why not just use Google?

• Have you ever had to teach (or learn) something you didn’t already know well and wished a colleague could recommend an appropriate Learning Object?

• Peer reviewed Learning Objects give you and your students confidence & teach responsible web research skills

• Links to related Learning Objects and papers can create networks of useful material.

• Metadata can help you refine your search productively!

Learning is the object, but what is a Learning Object?•A Learning Object is any item you could use in teaching or learning, such as:An active learning exercise, animation, assessment tool, audio file, course syllabus, curriculum, dataset, diagram, digital presentation (PowerPoint), exam, field trip guide, figure, glossary, graph, homework assignment, illustration, image, laboratory exercise, lecture or lecture outline, movie, non-lab exercise, origami exercise, photograph, podcast, Q&A set for clickers, review, simulation, teaching strategy, textbook, video file, web page, X-ray…

Why should YOU submit a Learning Object?

• Think about something you have developed to improve learning for your (DB) students.

• Think about the amount of time you put into making it useful and clear.

• Think how great it would be to extend the benefit of that effort beyond your students!

• Think how much better you might make your LO while you are tweaking it for submission!

How can you submit your Learning Object?

• Go to the APS web page: • http://www.apsarchive.org

Click here

Click here

Check here

Because we are in the process of changing our current software, the official SDB pages can’t yet link your LO and metadata to the database. For now you need to disguise yourself as an APS submitter and send me an email so I can recognize you in your disguise and reroute you to the SDB reviewers:

darnell@email.arizona.edu

Then click here

Add your title

A short description

A helpful suggestion

Click here to advance

For each page, fill in the blanks with text or selections From a given list. These are text boxes.

Highlight all fields that could benefit from your LO. Thesebecome search terms.

Click Add to select

The command/apple key lets you pick several at once.

Click here to add your nameAnd names of other contributors.When finished adding folks,Click Submit.

Select authors/contributors, or

Click here to add contributors

Fill in the blanks. The red asterisks indicate required fields but if you can put everything in that would be appreciated.

Click Add and then go back to the Authors list and select the author you just added

Every LO must have a first author (contact person). If there is no publisher, then the first author becomes the publisher of record.

This will take you to the technicalInformation page

Once you’ve added everyone, return to Author Information and select Done adding Authors.

Pick the format that matches your LO (use the pulldown) and list special requirements.

Then, either enter the URL of your LO if it is online, or upload the file onto our server.

Next stop: Educational Information

Make your selectionsfrom the educationaloptions provided. ClickAdd/Modify to see the Selection lists or use thePulldown arrow.

These and other choices form the metadata that others will use to select your LO from the BEN and NSDL archives.

Highlight all terms thatwould help someonefind your LO if they were wishing and searching forsomething just like it.Consider if parts might beused separately and createlinks for those, too.

Recommend appropriate educational levels for your LO.

Highlight, thenAdd. Remember,several levels may be appropriate.

Try to imagine how otherTeachers/students might use your LO at the ages you selected. Select all appropriateoptions. Highlight and Add.

If you picked a K-12 age group and you know which standardYour LO applies to, click add and select it. Otherwise, leavethis blank.

If there are restrictions on the use of this LO, say so here. Iusually recommend that the author be acknowledged.

A short movie, syllabus, lab, exam or other single item would go here

Groups of things with no order go here

Groups with an order go here

Your class web page goes here

If you are submittingseveral LOs thatwork together (suchas a lab, study guideand quiz), link themtogether here.

If your LO builds onsomeone else’s,link them togetherhere.

If you (or others) have published onthis LO, say so here.

Yeah! You’re done,unless you would liketo change anything.If so, do it now.

To get your LO shifted into the LEADER archive, send me an email with your title or LO number.

darnell@email.arizona.edu

I’ll send it to 2 reviewersand let you know theircomments. Accepted LOsbecome peer-reviewed, online publications.

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed,

that's all who ever have." Margaret Mead

• Thank you for submitting your LO to the SDB LEADER archive.

Reviewers Evaluating LOs look for:

Scientific AccuracySufficient LO narrative (could others use it correctly?)Background/supportive sources listed

Educational Relevancy

Pedagogical Effectiveness

Appropriate animal use and care instructions

Technical details (grammar, links okay?)

Appropriate metadata

Become a Reviewer!!!

• Be the first to see great new LOs!

• Help out other educators and students!

• Expand your national service to SDB!Send me an email (darnell@email.arizona.edu) with yourname, department, institution, phone number and areas of expertise/interest.

How to use BEN with your Class?

• Go to: www.biosciednet.org

Sign in (for tracking)Put in key words & levelOr other metadata

Browse the LOs that fit

Pick one and check it out!