Welcome to the Mars Virtual Teacher Training Workshop

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Remote users could become a part of the day's activities by clicking on the time at which they joined. They would then be pointed to the Web page associated with the presentation underway.

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All times listed are EDT

9:00

• Welcome, and overview of the day's events
  • Cheick Diarra, Mars Exploration Program Education and Outreach Manager, NASA JPL
  • Geoff Haines-Stiles, Project Director, PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE/LIVE FROM MARS

9:10

• NASA and International Mars Exploration Plans
• Jurgen H. Rahe, Mars Exploration Program Manager, NASA HQ

9:20

• Mars Exploration Objectives and Strategy
• Donna Shirley, Mars Exploration Program Manager, NASA JPL

9:40

• Science at Mars
• Matt Golombek, Mars "Pathfinder" Project Scientist, NASA JPL

10:20

• Audience Q&A and interaction including questions from "virtual participants"
• Moderated by Joe Boyce, Mars Exploration Program Scientist, NASA HQ
  • Donna Shirley
  • Matt Golombek
  • Cheick Diarra
  • Wayne Lee (Mission Planner for Mars Operations "Global Surveyor")

10:40- 10:55

• Coffee Break for Washington, D.C, location participants

• Astronomy Educator Bill Gutsch interviews teacher-attendees and program scientists for NASA-TV and Internet coverage

10:55- 11:35

• Cheick Diarra introduces Kurt Gramoll, of Engineered Multimedia, Inc. and Georgia Tech., to demonstrate the Mars Navigator CD-ROM

11:35- 12:00

• Geoff Haines-Stiles introduces George Powell, The Planetary Society
• Powell demonstrates "Red Rover, Red Rover" by connecting to a remote site, and receiving back and displaying video taken by the Red Rover at that site.

12:00- 1:00

• Lunch for location participants
• "Red Rover" demonstration continues in the Lobby outside auditorium, with students running rovers at remote sites, and remote sites running a rover at NASA HQ

• "Virtual Participants" will view a rerun videotape of the 9:10- 10:10 presentation
• Live coverage will begin again at 13:00

1:00

• The Mars Exploration Directorate approach to education. Cheick Diarra introduces Meredith Olson, Mars Pathfinder Project Educator

1:10

• Cheick Diarra introduces Dan Barstow, Curriculum Developer, TERC
• The Mars Exploration Directorate educational modules: Feedback process

1:20 - 3:00

• Demonstration of 2 sets of hands-on Activities developed for the Mars Exploration Directorate by TERC and the MED team:

1:20 - 2:30

• Meredith Olson
• Demonstration of mountains and stream table activities, as part of the Mars Canyons Module

2:30 - 2:50

• Dan Barstow and Chris Randall (Curriculum Developer, TERC)
• Demonstration of temperature data use as gathered from Mars, and a shoebox rover project, as part of the Introduction and Pathfinder Modules.

2:50 - 3:00

• Recap of Curriculum Activities, and Summation

3:00 - 3:15

• Coffee Break for DC location participants

• For "virtual participants," Bill Gutsch interviews teachers and program scientists for "person on the street" NASA-TV coverage.

3:15

• Geoff Haines-Stiles describes specifics of how LIVE FROM MARS can bring the "Red Planet" down to Earth
  Four, five minute introductions:

• Geoff Haines-Stiles:
  
  • Dates and times for the live and taped videos
  • Proposed content, live sites, formats (Q&A, online Q&A, student activities, touring remote sites, possible contest and Challenge Questions, etc.), Teacher Training tapes and/or training teleconference(s)

• Erna Akuginow:
  • Overview of the LFM Teacher's Guide and other print materials
  • Headlining adaptation to various grades, indicating connections to other PTK components, co-packaged materials

• Marc Siegel:
  • The LFM online resources
  • The different genres of material and experiences to be found online: i) informational; ii) interactive; iii) leading-edge: CU-SeeMe, WebChat; iv) collaborative activities

• Bob Spielvogel:
  • Assessment and evaluation built into LFM project activities

3:35 - 4:35

• Onsite participants will form breakout groups of teacher location participants gather at rear and sides of the Auditorium, and brainstorm ideas, discuss issues, etc. Location participants have a chance to attend TWO out of the THREE sessions.

• "Virtual participants" will have a discussion with a panel of the day's presenters responding primarily to accumulated and live questions:
  • Cheick Diarra
  • Donna Shirley
  • Dan Barstow
  • Meredith Olson
  • Geoff Haines-Stiles

4:35

• Re-assembly of the whole DC group
• Breakout group leaders report back key teacher comments: final chance for location and remote Q&A and comment

4:50

• Cheick Diarra and Geoff Haines-Stiles
• Implementing LIVE FROM MARS over 1996-1997 and beyond... a unique chance to follow the coming decades of Mars exploration
• Closing Comments

5:00

• Virtual Workshop Ends

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