Presentation to the Mobile Learning MeetUp on December 13th, 2012 - introducing the Citizen Cyberlab project, and how we are studying learning & creativity in participatory and collaborative science

1. @MobileMaggie
http://www.slideshare.net/MobileMaggie

2. • 5 years of events
• 2,000+ community
• 600+ attendees
• 36 hours of mobile
development
• 50 workshops
• 25-30 entries in the
Hack Day

5. Innova.on
Consul.ng

6. An idea-to-launch advisory service
for the collaborative development
of mobile products & platforms.

7. a 3-year project to
build Tools & study Creativity &
Platforms Learning
for citizen cyberscience

8. Citizen science is scientific
research conducted, in whole
or in part, by amateur or
nonprofessional scientists,
often by crowdsourcing. c

9. Ci.zen
science
yields
SERIOUS
RESULTS
Provided data for dozens of peer-
reviewed papers
Showed that birds migrate closer to
poles due to global warming
Discovered cocaine & hormones in
Puget Sound drinking water

10. Recording colors of backyard snail
shells to help determine if they’re
changed with our warming climate.
Analyzing wild algae species for their
potential to produce biofuels.
Building affordable satellites for
missions in atmospheric physics to
microgravity experiments.

11. Citizen Cyberscience makes use of
technology tools and platforms, such as
PCs and mobile phones, to empower
crowd-sourced scientific research

13. Volunteer
Compu.ng
Climatepredic.on.net

14. Distributed
Intelligence
www.galaxyzoo.org

15. Par.cipatory
Science
www.epicollect.net

17. Collabora.ve
Science
hHp://
www.ucl.ac.
uk/silva/
excites

20. Community Engagement
1. Grass Roots awareness of
Citizen Science
2. Participation in Pilot
Projects
3. Participation in Tool Design
4. Designing and launching
new Projects
5. Designing and building new
Tools
6. Becoming funding or
sponsorship Partners of the
Citizen CyberLab

21. Creativity & Learning
1. Motivation
2. Engagement
3. Gamification
4. Learning-by-doing
5. Quantifying learning
6. Collaborative
problem-solving

22. First Initiatives
1. The CCC Website
2. Citizen Science MeetUps
Everywhere
3. Facebook
4. Twitter
5. 4 Pilot Projects

26. www.citizencyberlab.com
margaret@tmc.bz
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