![]() Training Teachers to Make a Publishable Resource. Somehow Science Friday education director Ariel Zych, and education assistant Xochitl Garcia bought the pitch and kicked-off an amazing 35-week project. Nonetheless I impetuously pitched the idea to Science Friday. “Wouldn’t it be something” I thought to myself “if I could make a virtual geology field trip of Iceland that is comprised of high-resolution 360-degree photospheres, includes a virtual instructor and also has 3D rocks for students to manipulate?” It was a crazy and unrefined idea, and one I had very little knowledge of how to achieve. With the Science Friday application kicking-around in my brain while reading about their techniques, I had a Eureka! moment. Ron Schott’s tweets, featuring his GigaPan photos of sites of geologic significance, continually awed me with their high-resolution zoomability and exquisite detail. Several tweets by Callan Bentley introduced me to the process of turning rocks into virtual 3D models using a computer-voodoo technique called photogrammetry. Near the time of the tweet, several other tweets in my timeline were serendipitously planting the seeds of creation for what would become my immersive virtual field experience to the Columns of the Giants. This was all the inspiration I needed to start kicking around ideas for a teaching resource. The photojournal The Land of Volcanoes, Glaciers, and Mars-Like Deserts spoke to my photographic sensibilities as well as my desire to travel to Iceland. The SciFri application asked for a hypothetical elevator pitch for an educational resource based on a list of pre-selected articles. ![]() The tweet called for creative teachers to apply to their first annual Educator Collaborative with the stated goal of “participating in the collaborative development of new multimedia-driven education resources” inspired by the many amazing science-based articles and podcasts on. I read one such tweet from the National Public Radio (NPR) Show “Science Friday” in February 2016. Beyond the many amazing tweets from scientists I follow, several tweets have come across my timeline which have changed the course of my teaching career. ![]() This is perhaps a quirky way to introduce my awesome experience with the inaugural cohort of the Science Friday Educator Collaborative, but in the past several years I have found no better tool than Twitter for geoscience inspiration and innovation in my classes at Turlock High School in California’s Great Central Valley. Twitter pays-off as a professional development tool. (This post was originally written for the January 2017 NAGT Eastern Section Bulletin)
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