Birds, Bands and Beyond

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Author(s): Jill Russell (College of Mount St. Joseph, USA), Karen Glum (Seven Hills Middle School, USA), Jennifer Licata (Seven Hills Middle School, USA), David Russell (Avian Research & Education Institute, USA)and Jenny Wohlfarth (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 11
Source title: Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Melody Bowdon (University of Central Florida, USA)and Russell G. Carpenter (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch003

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Technologies in Higher Education

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This case study describes a partnership between the Avian Research and Education Institute (AREI), College of Mount St. Joseph (MSJ), University of Cincinnati (UC), and science teachers at The Seven Hills Middle School. This partnership enabled the teachers to implement a Bird Studies program and empowered the students to become citizen scientists. The partners used various technologies to establish and maintain an ongoing relationship between the field and classroom, so that students interacted with field ornithologists face-to-face and virtually via the Internet. In the classroom, students assisted researchers as they color-banded birds that visited the school’s wild bird garden. The students then monitored the banded birds, communicated with the researchers, posted updates on the class wiki, conducted biweekly bird counts and submitted data to eBird, created eField Guides, completed inquiry projects, and presented their data at a school event and a community bird festival.

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