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Your Kiosks and Reference Desks can access terabytes of data
In informal educational settings, information is just
the start of the experience your users demand. Kiosks and self-service reference
software products need to be easy to use and, moreover provide knowledge
within minutes. The Foundry’s “user near” software designs
are perfect for your venue.
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K-12 Teachers
The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!
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College and University Teachers
The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!
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Museum Director or Media Staff
Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.
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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project
Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.
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Campus Media and Curricular Development
If you are developing resources for teachers to use to
bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help
you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development
efforts.
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Interactivity on the run
Building interactive software from ready-made tools on your schedule means that you can fit new kiosks into your new exhibits in real-time. As you look to expand the information load from your current exhibits or reference collections, or to add value to new exhibits, you can harvest learning objects and data handlers from the Foundry and assemble these into Director applications that run on your Mac or PC. You can create data-rich learning software that your customers can take home. And you can access terabytes of information about the earth, or advanced models in physics, chemistry, or math. What the Foundry asks in return for giving you all the tools you need to connect your content with data resources is that any code that you create in the process is also shared with others. NOTE: your content is yours, the Foundry makes no claim to that. Referencing Public Data for your Public Information Service; Public libraries (and museums) represent the main points of contact the American public has to the wealth of scientific data and information that is being accumulated by the US Government. With the increase in the amount of internet-served, digital information—such as maps showing the locations of a wide range of hazards and useful information: earthquakes, floods, toxic waste, mud slides, and traffic accidents—reference desks will become nodes for exploring these new information resources. The Foundry can enable this new service by providing applications that non-computer-savvy users can understand without the help of a computer (or data) expert.
Stretch the budget, get the grant As a shared resource for the creation of active learning software, the Foundry offers your staff and your donors more value for your time and their money. No longer do you need to comtemplate a six-figure, 2-year budget to do a simple application. The Foundry is looking ahead to the day when new data-rich applications can be assembled in weeks and with only a few thousand dollars (or less, with the help of Foundry volunteers). This means that your grant request is going to look phenomenal and your final product will be simple, powerful, and reliable.
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You can use the foundry to meld science, education, and
practical information into highly interactive knowledge centers for a
wide variety of uses. You can add live data access to displays about
natural phenomena, or data-rich answers about the local environment,
or explanations that use models to explain math or physics. You can add
your content and brand to the learning objects in applications assembled
for your purpose, or help the Foundry build new learning objects that
everyone can use.
Where will people who do not own/use computers go to find the information that is either only available in digital form, or that can only access the latest information from the internet? The public library is the natural place for the transfer of this knowledge across the digital divide. The Foundry hopes to add a whole series of data-reference learning objects to its inventory. Working together we can bring data to the people whose lives are most affected by the circumstances of their habitation.