Presentation held by me at the Citizen Cyber Science Summit 2012 at UCL London

1. WEATHER
FOR SCHOOLS
Thomas Bartoschek, ifgi
2nd Digital CyberScience Summit, London, 18.02.2012
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2. CITIZEN SCIENCE @
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4. Pupils
• Projects
• Lessons
• Holiday courses
• Rent-a-X
• MExLab
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5. Pupils Teachers
• Projects • Teacher training
• Lessons • Projects
• Holiday courses • Rent-a-X
• Rent-a-X
• MExLab
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6. Pupils Teachers Projects
• Projects • Teacher training • Mapping parties
• Lessons • Projects • Traffic monitoring
• Holiday courses • Rent-a-X • Solar potential
• Rent-a-X • Noise mapping
• MExLab • ...
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7. primary goals
➙ bringing GI Science into schools
➙ including students into all phases of participative scientific projects
Pupils Teachers Projects
• Projects • Teacher training • Mapping parties
• Lessons • Projects • Traffic monitoring
• Holiday courses • Rent-a-X • Solar potential
• Rent-a-X • Noise mapping
• MExLab • ...
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14. EVOLUTION
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15. EVOLUTION
• established 2006
• ca. 150 schools
• ca. 610 teachers
• ca. 6000 pupils
(by February 2012)
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16. EVOLUTION
activities
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• established 2006
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• ca. 150 schools
• ca. 610 teachers 30
• ca. 6000 pupils
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2006
(by February 2012) 2007 10
2008
2009
2010 0
2011
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20. - connecting real world objects to the Web
Web of - identity: URI
- communication: i.e. HTTP GET
Things - memory
HTTP
Thing Web
HTTP
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21. WEB OF THINGS APPLICATION
communicate
reason
Web
sense
Aim: generic sensor platform on the web
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22. WEB OF THINGS APPLICATION
communicate
reason
Web
sense
Aim: generic sensor platform on the web
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25. +
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= WEATHER
FOR SCHOOLS
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= WEATHER
FOR SCHOOLS
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29. WEATHER SENSEBOX FOR SCHOOLS
!!!"
10,2+.2"
#$%&'()"&()"
3-40.,0-"1450/6"
*+,-.+//0."
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30. DO IT YOURSELF KIT
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31. PRICE TABLE
Component Price
Arduino Uno 25 €
Ethernet Shield 32 €
GPS Shield + Antenna 45 €
Wind / Rain Sensors 50 €
Pressure sensor (BMP085) 17 €
Humidity + Temperature (SHT15) 35 €
Power supply 30 €
Cables + weather proof setup 15 €
249 €
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32. SENSEBOX PORTAL
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33. SENSEBOX PORTAL
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34. SENSEBOX PORTAL
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35. DATA INTEGRATION
• Schools can access the data of their station AND all other stations in the portal
• buliding a network of participating schools, to share the weather data for further
analysis (interpolations of local/regional weather, time series analysis).
• provide tutorials for reuse of weather data in other contexts, i.e., integration in social
networks (facebook, twitter), apps or websites.
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36. EXAMPLES
MAIL
SMS
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37. INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Mathemetics WEATHER
• Physics FOR SCHOOLS
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38. INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION
WHAT THE KIDS DO?
• Computer Science • building the sensebox
• Geography • programming the
protocols
• Mathemetics WEATHER • developing interfaces
• Physics FOR SCHOOLS
• measurement statistics
• weather analysis
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39. FUTURE WORK + CONLUSIONS
• Deployment to several schools (21 Letters of Intent)
• Development of lesson concepts
• open for further cooperations!
• We have a strong and big network of schools, to work with us!
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43. COLLABORATIONS
• 52°north
http://52north.org
• Working Group Climatology
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Klima/
• Institute for Didacitcs of Geography
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geographiedidaktik/
• Institute for Didactics of Computer Science
http://ddi.uni-muenster.de/
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44. QUESTIONS / IDEAS?
Thomas Bartoschek
bartoschek@uni-muenster.de
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de
http://www.gi-at-school.de
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45. QUESTIONS / IDEAS?
Thomas Bartoschek
bartoschek@uni-muenster.de
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de
http://www.gi-at-school.de
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