Forgetting the Tsunami:Preventing this via online education

Presented byDr. Jon BaggaleyRichard Giroday

The Tsunami Project

One focus Four complimentary topics Four unique team approaches Four unique educational resources

Development Overview

http://giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/tsunamiprojectbrainstorm.htm

The MDDE615 Challenge Teams of three

Strengths and Weaknesses Specified Topic Communication challenges Short Time Frame

Jan. 17th – groups identified Feb. 7th – proposal due Feb. 21st – Prototype due Mar. 4th – Evaluation

Group C – Tsunami, Health:Development Overview

http://giroday.thewebworks.bc.ca/MDDE/MDDE615/healthbrainstorm.htm

Critical Challenge

Narrowing the focus Niche Target Audience

Educational Value

Meet expectation criteria

Criteria

Educational – in a formal sense, or of public interest in a broad informative sense.

Original Technically competent – clean html

code, value added features

Four valued resources Educational Issues

Scientific Aspects

Health Issues

International Aid

Educational Issues – Group A

Darren Cannell, Lynette Carmichael, Suzanne McCullagh

Goal – to aid distance educators, in their Tsunami teachings.

Three key categories: educational tools – lesson plans, teaching

aids, etc overview of current educational

reconstruction efforts Searchable databank of online Tsunami-

related resources.

Scientific Aspects – Group B

Lori Johnston, Celynn Klemenchuk, Ferdinand Krauss

Scientific Explanation Plate Tectonics Wave Physics

Human History Biosphere Impact Prediction Systems

Visual Site Map

Health Issues – Group CRichard Giroday, Anita Dumont, Margaret

Werdermann

Two target audiences Survivors, Travellers

Tsunami Health Issues Compendium of disease characteristics

Traveling to the affected regions Warnings,Preparation, Survival

Media/Search Engine Research

Accessibility Issues Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

International Aid – Group D

Prisca Campbell, Maisaa Tubail, Joanna Wiebe Better Aid

Find compatible disaster recovery organizations and form alliances to stretch resources or to address community needs that your organization cannot.

Faith based United Nations Organizations Red Cross Non-sectarian groups

Human Factorsin Educational Technology

The Tsunami Project: Research and Development Issues in International Online Delivery

Technical consolidation and amalgamation of the four web sites onto one server.

Maintain the uniqueness, integrity, and look/feel of each of the four sites.

Evaluation/comparison of accessibility of different online techniques in urban and remote parts of Asia

Search Engines as measurement tools for research.

Portability Issues

PHP cgi/perl Blogs Security issues Frames Relative vs Absolute references Images

#1 Portability Criteria

Site self-containment

Server Overview

Relative reference vs Absolute reference

Questions What was the catalyst for the growth of this awareness and

response? What factors contributed to the development of such a global

awareness? How quickly did it develop? How long will the awareness and reaction to this disaster be

sustained? Is the response waning? Why was awareness and response to this particular disaster so great?

Other disasters throughout the world have been as tragic, if not more so, yet they have not had the level of impact and response.

How great an impact did this disaster have on the world? What can be learned from examination of this development? What tool can be used to measure the development?

The Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004, is a major disaster that captured global attention in a way never seen

before in the world.

Search Engine Research

Search Engine Research

Measuring the rate of growth and decay of media coverage is a difficult challenge at best, impossible at worst. However, one medium could lend itself to just such an analysis – the Internet.

One indicator of the rate of growth and decay of media coverage is the number of web pages generated or updated daily in response to a particular event or disaster.

Search Engine Research Question

Can search engines be used as measurement tools for doing research?

Questions?

Forgetting the Tsunami:Preventing this via online education

Presented byDr. Jon BaggaleyRichard Giroday