DDTF Serving Campus Media Professionals

Campus Media Staff need special tools to stay on top...

of user demands. On this page we will explore the future of community-based, data-rich learning application development using the Data Discovery Toolkit and Foundry in the NSDL. You might already be using Macromedia Director® or Flash®. And there are probably professors on your campus that use IDL® for data access and visualization. Now you can work together to bring live data and models to curricular applications.
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K-12 Teachers

The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!

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College and University Teachers

The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!

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Museum Director or Media Staff

Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.

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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project

Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.

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Campus Media and Curricular Development

If you are developing resources for teachers to use to bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development efforts.

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Using Data
in the Classroom

Reviewed Resources
in MERLOT

On the front lines of learning application development

Campus educational media professionals must deal with a range of demands—professors want leading-edge results on a campus budget. Our goal is to create shared resources that you can resource for your use, and the ability to contribute to this service to help others. If you are already using Director® to create interactive multimedia, you are halfway there. The Foundry will help you code new user interfaces in less time, while it extends your existing Director resources. Now you can add real, and real-time data to your Director projects. The Foundry is building "user-near" applications with very short learning curves, so that a student can get right to work on the data, instead of the software. We are looking to build sharable, modular tools, where the data instrument can be supplemented by a teacher's own content (in HTML). This means that your professor can create a lesson in Microsoft word, export this as an HTML file and link it to a data tool that her students can download and use on their desktops.

A Community that works like you do

Bring your Macromedia Director Lingo code and needs to the foundry, where these can be shared by others. And while you are here, take the code you need to add user interactions—and REAL DATA—to your Director project. If you are working alone, then the Foundry is where you can find others with similar problems and solutions that will work for you.

Reviewed Multimedia Resources at MERLOT

If you are looking for multimedia resources that are already peer reviewed, or if you want to have your resource peer reviewed, you might want to look at the MERLOT project. MERLOT is one of the leading volunteer organizations that are moving education into the digital world. The Foundry will be looking to add its applications to the collections of multimedia resources that have been reviewed by Merlot.

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