Dillon Connelly (he/they): Excellent. All right. Can everybody see my screen share? Can I get a thumbs up from anybody, or we're all good
Dillon Connelly (he/they): in my Presentation act. Well, thank you, Roland. All right. So this is so welcome, everybody. This is the second and our Seal Virtual Training Series
Dillon Connelly (he/they): about Citizen Science and the eclipses. Today we're gonna be talking about programming specifically kind of a step by step process on how to host a daytime star party as an example of how to do, citizen science at your library. So we're gonna go ahead and get started.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So we've had a couple of changes that we're waiting for some of our presenters, Claire and Rackcliffe Adams. There's an education associated with the space that you should be showing us shortly. Darlene. Unfortunately wasn't able to make it so instead, we have a Roland we're not from who's
Dillon Connelly (he/they): all the way from Lebanon. So making time late at night for us, and I really appreciate that role in
Dillon Connelly (he/they): my name is Dylan Connelly. My pronouns are he and they I'll be kind of captaining the ship today, but this is really all about sharing ideas about y'all. So I like to think of this as a collective Webinar.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Okay. So as for our agenda, we'll start out with a little bit of an introduction to this and an icebreaker. Then we'll go into a brief introduction to the seal project. If you are unfamiliar with the seal project and give you some information there
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and then we're gonna go step by step on a kind of an example of how to build a program out like a daytime star party, so we'll learn how to the daytime, start party all of it, and incorporating citizen science into that.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So we'll start with learning and sharing how to learn and share the basics of citizen science. how to choose a Citizen science Project for your audience. how to plan an event for a program.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): how to register your event with science starter, so that that work can get out of out there how to promote your event I'll providing some resources for you as well as we're gonna open up the floor. Talk, and hopefully, some of you all will be comfortable sharing how you promote events, so we can share some ideas on how to among y'all librarians about how to do that.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and then we'll open up the floor for a. Q. A. So just so. Everybody knows if you have to take off at any point in this meeting we will be. We are recording this. We'll be posting this link to our Youtube Channel, as well as sharing that out on the web Webinar page that you might have registered
Dillon Connelly (he/they): through starnet
it will be we will be recording and posting this. So don't worry if you miss any portion of it, have come late. Anything like that.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So I thought it started with a great icebreaker. So one of the cool things about citizen science and the eclipse is that citizen Science is a great way to connect your community with big ideas around the world about the world around us.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and considering that we are going to be having 2 total eclipses, and about 6 months apart from each other, they are going to be visible anywhere in the Us. That's a really great way to tie citizen science together, which is a
participatory science
Dillon Connelly (he/they): type of thing along with the participation in the eclipses by doing eclipsed events at your library.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So, just to get us think in along those lines, I thought I would open it up to you all feel free to unmute if you're comfortable, or if you want to share this in the chat, what are some ways that in the past You've connected your community to big ideas at your library
doesn't necessarily have to be STEM. But, like what are some ways that you've drawn? Some connections between your community and some big global or nationwide ideas
Dillon Connelly (he/they): i'll share out, for I was lucky enough. Why, you always thinking I was lucky enough in 2,017 to be working in the small Natural History Museum in Rhode Island, and connecting people. When when the total eclipse happened. That was viewable, nationwide, the great American eclipse being there and doing programming around the eclipse
Dillon Connelly (he/they): at that museum was one of the M. The best times I've ever had as an educator
was so cool to see people connected to the eclipse, something that's really has been studied and observed for by humans, for
Dillon Connelly (he/they): millennia, and really to just see people's wonder and their eyes, and they saw something so cool and create such a cool connection to the universe to the world around us was really really nice
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Jesus shared in the chat. They visit their schools to get students and teachers excited Prior to that. That's a really great way to make a connection.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Janet just shared that they had folks sign up to get their names on Mars during their space camp program. That's really cool. I like that so you can have a You put your name out in the stars on a different planet.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Tammy said the Social Media School Flyers Newsletter.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): which is also really good, being cognizant of many different ways to create connection with your community. It's all really really important, Katie said. Not really science related. But our library program does a star wars weeds program each year and get lots of participation.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I disagree. I think that's totally science-related. Myself. I know that part of my fascination with faith is a large part due to Star Wars.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and the even though Star Wars isn't the most scientifically accurate of space film, I think that wonder and adventure a really great way to get people interested in these kind of different topics.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So I am stoked to hear the as a lifelong star worth that. It thrills me that we're doing some star Wars programming that passes the the joy of Star Wars on the next generation Hopefully, get some people interested in things
Dillon Connelly (he/they): excellent, Excellent! Does anybody else want to share anything out in the chat or unmute? Oh, Christina said, we had a local astronomy society. Come and explain what an eclipse is, and we're the best place to see. When during the last week that's fantastic, we'll actually be talking a little bit today about ways you might be able to connect with local Astronomy Club
Dillon Connelly (he/they): to find people to come to your eclipse event
about something you're interested in.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Brenda, said I also sign in sheets. At events where people can put their email address. I put in a distribution list and invite them to future events. That's really a great point, making connections with your community by having them at one of them and connecting with them to see if they want to come to leader events.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): It's a really great way to build a loyal audio.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Janet said we had a maple sugaring program where we signed families up to the the bucket emptiers. Every few days we talked them. They're going to be real maple syrup, maple, sa, and how to make their own maple syrup.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): That sounds fantastic. I would sign up for that program in a heartbeat. I'm: a big food fan and maple saves one of my favorite flavors, those teaching people about the process, and that differences as well.
Okay, cool.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Laurie said. They gave out glasses at the last eclipse had a viewing party with a telescope also really great. We're actually gonna be talking a little bit today if you all Haven't signed up for how to get some free eclipse classes for your library event.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Excellent. All right. Well, thanks so much for sharing out everybody. Oh, we got one more coming in, Donna said. We've done all the Globe programs with all ages. Oh, fantastic! We're actually going to be doing another Webinar coming up on May Fourth with Globe Observer
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and talking about their clip-specific program. So if you are interested that link that I put in the Channel. I'll put it in right here. Now, if you want to register for one of our up for that May fourth webinar where we're talking about Globe Observer. You've not been exposed to both before really really cool program.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): But John was saying, they did several different types of take home kits on various topics like that.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Astronomy, biodiversity, pollinators, light pollution weather, and several others very, very cool, all right. So it sounds like y'all have already been starting to make these connections in your communities really thinking about how the big ideas can.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): even though they're really big. By making connections with your community, we can make them by size and really start to develop a cool relationship between the big nationwide or global ideas and your local community at your local library
Dillon Connelly (he/they): all right, so we just been joined by Claire Racklev Adams. Thanks, Claire, who is also from SSI, and Claire, will be assistant, has been talking to us a little bit through some of the programming stuff we're going to be.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So I thought I would start out so this
Dillon Connelly (he/they): webinar today that we're doing in partnership with science. Starter is funded by a couple of different groups, but we're largely.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): It is a excuse me the funding is coming from a seal where we're getting from the Gordon and betting more foundation.
The seal project is building off of SSI's work for that 2017 eclipse.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and we are trying to go even bigger than we did in 2,017,
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so available through the seal project you can sign up for up to 2,000 free eclipse classes for your library, the link of which the link to that application is in the getting started with field blog post that i'm. Putting in the chat right now.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and once you're signed up for to get those free glasses, and it's no strings attached. You just have to sign up for the glasses, and you get them. There's no reporting pro program requirements anything like that. Just so you can just get those free glasses
Dillon Connelly (he/they): mit ctl. And we are doing in-person trainings in all 50 States and 4 territories about the Eclipse and eclipse programming. So if you're interested in attending one of those we started them already. I think we've done 150
Dillon Connelly (he/they): about 10 States or so far we're working our way through the list. I want to say 1010 to a dozen something like that. But we have upcoming trainings. Contact your State Library. If you're interested in attending one of those
Dillon Connelly (he/they): we have recorded training videos and virtual workshops, virtual workshops, just like the one you're in right now, as well as putting all of these recordings of these virtual workshops, and how 2 videos up on our Youtube Channel.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Yeah. Claire is actually is in New York, leading one of those workshops right now. We're very, very graciously got into her hotel and immediately signed on to join up today. So we're. We're actively doing it. We're coming to you.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We also have some fantastic circulating kit
Dillon Connelly (he/they): at State libraries. We have 2. We're sending out 4 kits per state, and that have things like solar telescopes, books, hands on activities, and those are really great for you to check out from your State Library to run programming around citizen science, the eclipse solar science, because this is now
Dillon Connelly (he/they): of your of Helium physics. All of those are available to your State Library. I only recommend getting in contact with your State Library. If you want to get your hands
on one of those
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We're also offering access to scientists, volunteers.
subject matter, expert and other librarians who are starnet online community. We.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): if you go ahead and register for your glass of
Dillon Connelly (he/they): you can go ahead and you'll be automatically registered for our starnet community site and our Eclipse group where we are connecting you librarians with subject matter experts us here at Fsi, all sorts of different folks to talk and share ideas around eclipse programming at the some really full conversations
Dillon Connelly (he/they): that are happening there. If you would like to get in on that, and you or don't want to sign up, for classes feel free to reach out to me, and I can go ahead and direct you to who you need to talk about.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Talk to you about getting involved on that getting registered for that website and getting signed up for our Newsletter. I'm going through my email address in the Chat right now. It's deconally state science.org. I can help you get registered for that for that newsletter and on the community site. If that's something you're interested.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): If perhaps you don't want to sign up for the free glasses, or you. The colleague is signed up for the glasses. We still want to keep a rep with all things steel. Go ahead and reach out to me, and I will get that information to you.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So some information I just getting started with Steel. I've been putting the link to the getting started with field blog posts in our chat. You can also, if you're watching this recording at home, or you're checking out the slide deck that we'll be posting online with the a recorded version of the Webinar. You can pull up this QR code which will take you that blog post
Dillon Connelly (he/they): that seal Resources blog post has once again those links to register for glasses. And then, once you get that, you'll be on our Newsletter. We also have an Saq Webinar that's on our Youtube page the link to that isn't the getting started with your blog post.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and if you this is your first exposure, the ceiling would like to attend a live getting started with feel. Webinar. We're doing those monthly starting next month through August. So the registration link to that is, in that getting started with your blog post as well. So i'd love for you to come and join me. We're gonna be doing those monthly webinars getting you acquainted with all things seal
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and and hopefully connecting you with some cool resources to get started with the eclipse.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So that's my little seal that was harder to say than I thought it would be.
So that's my.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And now we are going to turn this over. We're going to start talking about how to get started with citizen science, learn the basic systems and science, and we're going to hand that over to
well in from Science Starter, Who's gonna talk a little bit about that. So take away rolling.
Roland Moundalak: Thank you.
Roland Moundalak: So starting with the basics of citizen science and i'll be posting some links from citizen Science is simply a way for everyone to participate in scientific research and real research.
Roland Moundalak: and to obtain the answers to questions which otherwise wouldn't be so easy for conventional research to obtain them. So we also offer offer trainings about citizen science, including the foundations, one
Roland Moundalak: and the another one about the libraries as community hub for citizen science. You basically have to start with the foundations foundations, training. Earn your badge and proceed with the other ones.
So next slide, please.
Roland Moundalak: So we have more than a 1,000 projects on size starter. Actually, we currently have 1,518 active projects.
Roland Moundalak: and the they are all easily searchable by topic, by location, by affiliate status, and the affiliate projects are ones that when you participate and you can earn credit on your side, start to dashboard, so it's a way to combine all your efforts from
Roland Moundalak: the various citizen science platforms into your unified size starts with dashboard.
Roland Moundalak: and we've also created the eclipse page recently, which lists many eclipse related projects. So several projects in this page for a total of 15 projects. Several ones can be contributed to
Roland Moundalak: any time, but obviously they are particularly more interesting to to try during the eclipse. And now we will see why in the next slide, please.
Roland Moundalak: Okay. So before we see the actual projects, here are some tips to plan your event. So if you want to participate in citizen science, whether before, during or after the eclipse, you have well, first and foremost, the most important thing is to actually enjoy the eclipse.
Roland Moundalak: And
when you want to start some event.
Roland Moundalak: start by collecting data before the eclipse to to governor enthusiasts.
Roland Moundalak: and you may be too busy the day of the eclipse to the vote. Time to collecting data, holding a project after the eclipse can encourage patrons to return.
Roland Moundalak: and
Roland Moundalak: there are projects for everyone, even if you are not on the path of annuality totality. And as we will see in the next slide, some projects can be done online without being in on location.
Roland Moundalak: Okay. So these are the 15 projects that are currently listed on by starter.org slash eclipse. So Aurasaurus is the project which you can.
Roland Moundalak: I'm sorry.
Roland Moundalak: contribute to any time of the year, and you have the option of either submitting sightings, or if you don't have access, or you you didn't see any citing. You can simply classify tweets about, or as
Roland Moundalak: so it's it basically searches the Twitter database for posts that include the the word aurora.
Roland Moundalak: and you simply have to filter out the ones that are used in the context of this natural phenomenon.
Roland Moundalak: Another project is Citizen Kate to make observations of the inner and middle Solar Corona.
Roland Moundalak: Then we have Citizen Weather observer program. Do it yourself to be test. And, by the way, we are always adding new projects to to our database. Some of these are have been recently added
Roland Moundalak: eclipse ballooning project for students to conduct high altitude balloon flights, and many of these projects have already been conducted during the 2,017 eclipse, and
Roland Moundalak: they are being planned again this year. Eclipse Mega movie. This one is also interesting when everyone share their photos, or even videos of the sound during the eclipses to end up with one video. So if you visit the this project site on Size Starter.
Roland Moundalak: This project's page, You will have access to a video that shows the end work, and it's really interesting how combining photos from several locations and several devices
Roland Moundalak: can be that interesting eclipse soundscapes is another interesting project, which, when we added not long ago, was still under the development. But one of their interesting features
Roland Moundalak: is the vibration map. If I'm. Not mistaken, and it allows people who cannot see the eclipse to feel it on their screen, so you'll have a a photo of the eclipse on your screen, and as you move your finger over the eclipse.
Roland Moundalak: the phone will start vibrating more and more, depending on how dark your screen is.
Roland Moundalak: Globe at night is a project which you can participate anytime of the year. But it would be very interesting to to contribute during the Eclipse
Roland Moundalak: Globe Observer eclipse. So this NASA project that has several protocols global server has a land cover and most Keith to ha it out, Mappers and the Cloud, and this eclipse one, and
Roland Moundalak: I think there's a fifth one, but the eclipse protocol can only be accessed during the eclipse. So if you download the app today, you won't, be able to see it, and even then it will employ some aspects from the Clouds protocol
Roland Moundalak: to observe, to, to take cloud observations and make air temperature measurements.
Roland Moundalak: So obviously you can do a lot with just your mobile device. But if you have access to a thermometer, or depending on the project to another device, it will be even more valuable Next, he's. So. If you are a hammer, you operator.
Roland Moundalak: You will also help understand the earth's ionosphere.
Roland Moundalak: I, naturalist, is very popular project. which
Roland Moundalak: which can be very important during the eclipse, because, as the record biodiversity sightings. The thing that we that we're most interested to see is the how, during the eclipse some nocturnal animals will come out.
Roland Moundalak: so we would be able to see such observations on I naturalist, during times of the day which are in common. Usually
Roland Moundalak: I see change is similar to I Natural is more related to climate change, and whether
Roland Moundalak: solar, active regions butter.
Roland Moundalak: This is an interesting universe project.
Roland Moundalak: just like many universe projects, and it has a very detailed tutorial. So that's the nice thing about universe is that as soon as you enter the project page you you won't necessarily understand what you're seeing. Maybe it would be graphs or images. But if you go through the tutorial you will.
you will get up to speed in no time.
Roland Moundalak: and you will feel how you are doing some advanced, some real science in the process.
Roland Moundalak: Solar Jet Hunter.
Roland Moundalak: Another interesting project
Roland Moundalak: and the Sun Grazer Project to find comments in our solar system online next slide, please.
Roland Moundalak: Okay. So these are.
Roland Moundalak: We covered them by naturalist glow of server eclipse which will be available
Roland Moundalak: during the eclipse and the eclipse soundscapes.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I'm rolling. I'll just pop in here real quick. So the Globe Observer eclipse and the global observer soundscapes. Our Our projects are all about gathering data during the eclipse itself. We're actually going to be hosting the 2 the next 2 webinars in this series on May fourth
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and May fifteenth. So on December the fifteenth we'll say May fifteenth something like that check I'll. I'll check into this.
But where the next 2 webinars are going to be actually co-hosted with folks from Globe Observer and the Eclipse Downscape Project. So if you're interested in participating in those Citizen times, project on the days of both the annular and total eclipses. In October.
April. We're going to be hosting Webinar typically about those projects and how to get involved. So keep an eye. Go ahead and the the links to a register, for those are also on that getting started with
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Ron. I' it back to you.
Roland Moundalak: So yeah, this is the the size start of stuff we wanted to share. And again, if you go to the eclipse page, i'm going to post the link again, you'll find these very same projects with descriptions and the links you, You'll have the link to the project page onsize, starter to.
Roland Moundalak: I have more information, and the link the direct link to the project's website right from the eclipse page.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Thanks, Roland. So I just want to point out before we Claire takes over to talk about planning your event. So the great thing about this is science. Starters actually set up that page, the clip page that is focused specifically on eclipse events and getting citizen science projects for eclipse focus and solar science events.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): But I highly recommend checking out all of science artist projects, even if you are planning on doing some clips or solar event programming. Maybe you live in like a really wooded area, and maybe a biodiversity Citizen Science project would be more important.
more appropriate for you. Or maybe there's like an urban observation. Citizen science project that you can participate.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): even if you're doing a solar event or an eclipse event. There's tons of options out there, and what's great about sine starter is their project finder. You can narrow it down by whether or not the the Citizen Science Project can be fully remote. It's online the age levels you can print to the
visitors who might want to participate in that. So as you're planning your daytime star party or eclipsed event. There's tons of sciences and science options out there outside of the scope of just solar science
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and eclipse science. We really want to encourage you to participate in any solar science, and it's this project that we have out there. If there's tons of options, so I highly invite you to to to explore the size, order website and find some projects that might be great for your library, even if they're outside of this Google.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So now to talk a little bit about prepping and planning for a citizen science event in your library. I'll hand this over to Claire.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Great. Thank you.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Yeah. I feel like a lot of what i'm gonna cover. Libraries are also are already amazing at. But just to note with a lot of those citizen science projects that roll into covered. Many of them do require some sort of tech equipment ranging from yeah, an air thermometer to
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): audio devices. And there are a lot of
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): resources out there to help you get those tools if you do not have them already. As Dylan said, we're going to be hosting a Webinar on May Fourth with globe. Observer. They're actually putting together kits that you can apply for that you will receive all of the equipment that you need.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So please join us on May Fourth, to learn how you can apply for that, but they'll be sending out materials to give to patrons such as pinhole viewers and cloud
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): charts that help you identify the the features in the sky that they're looking for for data for. But they will also be sending digital thermometers that you can use
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): to collect data. And then the other thing is a lot of these signed citizen Science projects do require that you submit the data into their databases, using either a web based platform or an app.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So the Globe Observer, you would need to download an app for. So just make sure, you know.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): before you commit to signing up to one of these projects, you really read through the requirements that they need for the tech equipment. the Soundscapes Citizen science project
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): that includes a little audio device. They're really interested in understanding what sounds we here during an eclipse. So since the first, you know, depending on where you are in the path, we'll become a little bit shaded through the shadow of the moon.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): It has impact on our animal life, and so
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): birds tend to
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): quiet down a little bit. Crickets might start chirping, and so Soundscapes is really interested in collecting audio data which is really exciting, and a way for
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): the visitors and patrons of your libraries, with visual impairments, to experience the eclipse and collect some data.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): But just like club observer, we are partnering with them to provide libraries within the State of Texas to receive those audio device recorders for free. So that's the the second webinar in May. You can learn how you can
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): apply to to receive one of those. But even if you don't receive one through us, they have some scholarship programs on their website. So there are ways that you don't have these tech equipment to obtain them.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): But you know it does require a little bit of work on your part just to do some research and figure out what it is that you need.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So yeah, just to just as as part of really standardizing all of the data that these scientists are using in their projects. There are certain protocols and certain equipment that you are required to use. So just be sure that you have those on hand when you're signing up for these projects
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): next slide, please.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So another great way to bolster your citizen science programs with your patrons is to invite speakers. These are 2 links for a access to subject matter, experts, especially around eclipse programming. So we have NASA's Night Sky network.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): and that's nice Guy Jpl. NASA Gov. And I believe that link is on the getting started with seal blog.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): You could also reach out to NASA Solar system ambassadors that solar system.nasa.com slash, solar system, Ambassador Slash events. All of the people within these networks have been trained by NASA, and they are
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): they range from sort of more amateur astronomers to really experienced astronomers, and they have
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): subject matter experts in almost every single state.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So I encourage you to reach out to them. Some of them have more experience on the subject matter expert side. Some of them have a lot of great facilitation experience.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): We just invited one of the solar System ambassadors in the State of Colorado to join us for one of our training workshops, and I kind of expected them to, you know.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): have all of the scientific jargon, and which would still be really interesting. But she came in with activities with prizes like ready to go so much fun.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): So there's really a wide range of of speakers that you can get.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Also, I want to put a plug in for your States Master Naturalist.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): If you're doing one of the citizen. Science projects such as the I naturalist one where you're really looking at the biodiversity.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): what animals are coming out, what is happening to the plants, you know, when we
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): lose
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): the intense sunlight for a few minutes. Naturalists around the country are getting really excited to experience the eclipse and are looking for public programming. So I know, especially in Texas.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Texas is an area of the country that is gonna get complete a 100% annuality in October as well as totality in April, 2,024. So there is a lot of excitement if you're in that area. I know that the master naturalists of Texas are really looking for
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): programs to be a part of for the eclipse. So think about inviting speakers that takes a little bit of the pressure off from you to be the holder of the knowledge. You know you can invite a subject matter expert and give that opportunity to your visitors as well as you're collecting data and contributing to the scientific field.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): One other thing we're going to be doing through the seal project is we are actually going to be compiling our own database of solar science as subject matter experts and eclipse experts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We are currently working on that. We're recruiting them right now, if you need more incentive to sign up for your free solar solar viewing glasses as well as getting on that community site and our newsletter, we will be announcing when we roll that out through those channels. So you should definitely get signed up for our newsletter and register for those classes. If you want information on how to get the access to them
Dillon Connelly (he/they): that directory of solar science experts as well. So there's a lot of options for you to find in guest speakers.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Yeah, thanks, Dylan. Yeah, no. That's perfect. That's actually my next slide. I was going to put a plug in for our community site. We have gone feedback from libraries that have reached out to solar System ambassadors, and the night that I network and I have like, have been met with silence. So
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): you know those are great databases to start out with to try. I've had some success in some States not as great a success, and others so we have heard that comment and that critique. And so that is why we are swooping in, and we're trying to be matchmakers for you. So yeah, as Dylan said, we are
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): working with a team to select
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): solar science experts and through our community. Page. Which is, it's a
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): modeled up of a social media type of field. So it's very user-friendly intuitive.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): We use Facebook. This will feel really familiar. We affectionately call it Facebook.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): I believe Dylan coined that term.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): But this is the place where you would go to ask questions about subject matter experts and be matched with them. So we're trying to do that work for you if you, if you are hitting a wall with getting NASA subject matter experts through the links in the previous slide.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Please check this place out. We are here, and we want to be on your team to help you find the right speakers for your event.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and in addition to having that great connection, it allows you to communicate with other librarians. We also post regular blogs. We have guest bloggers to Tah, who
Dillon Connelly (he/they): mit Ctl. And our real librarians talking about their experience and STEM programming. So we post regular blogs on the our community site from librarians talking about what is like running the type of programming we're talking about on the ground. In addition to all of that great discussions and community forums, we have several different groups for lots of different themes and projects, 250,
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and the the I can't say enough. The eclipse community has really been going off with tons of great discussions between librarian subject matter, experts, astronomers, all around the eclipse. It's been really really cool to see. I highly recommend Denmark.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Awesome. Well, thank you, Claire. So now i'm going to take a few minutes to talk about one of my favorite subjects, how to find some hands on activities for your programming. So if you're thinking about your star party, so I picked my date. I've gotten a really cool guest speaker to come, maybe a diet, a professor from like a local university, or the president of a local astronomy club. I picked a Citizen Science project. I've gotten myself trained through the side starter training
Dillon Connelly (he/they): on how to be a citizen scientist and how to run that in my library. So what do I do next? What am I going to do? Besides, just row, you know, collect data. You probably want to have some hands on activities that are maybe caught a a long line of them with the
Dillon Connelly (he/they): A Citizen Side project you're doing, or just to have something, some some programming as an activities to go along with your event. And that is where the start at STEM activity clearing. How
Dillon Connelly (he/they): comes in so kind of like how science starter has their citizen science Project Finder. We here turn out to develop the STEM Activity Clearinghouse, which is
Dillon Connelly (he/they): hands on activity finder.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and that's@clearinghousestarnetlibraries.org, and when you land on that page you'll have access to over 500 vetted hands on activities that are ready to go for libraries. So this is what the homepage looks like when you go to the start of the STEM Activity Clearing House, and what you'll see there
Dillon Connelly (he/they): is that there is actually a featured collection.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): What we do is when we are working on a new project at SSI, or starting at. We usually put together a teams collection of activities that we book either create for the the project or we've gathered that we know we're themed appropriate. So right now, we actually have a solar act clips activities for libraries collection on there, and that has.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I think, 14 or 15 different activities, including ones. We're going to be continuing to add, we have stuff like a really cool activities like how to make a solar oven how to turn that solar oven into a water. Still, if you feel so inclined
Dillon Connelly (he/they): things like a pocket solar system, how to make a principal pocket sun clock, and we even had, because we know that we're providing this lastitorium. We've got the 2 eclipses coming up in both October and April. We have a principal glasses, protector, so that your visitors can store their solar science classes
Dillon Connelly (he/they): between the eclipses and keep them safe and scratch free, so that they're safe to use for the total eclipse After the annual eclipse in April. So really cool tons of really cool activities that are solar science focus on.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So you can check out that collection another way to navigate there. We go another way to navigate the SIM activity. Clearinghouse is just by browsing and searching. So if you click, browse and filter all activities, what that'll do is that'll pull up all 500 activities on the clearing out.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And what's cool about that is over on the left-hand side on that web page you'll see tons of different ways to filter those activities.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): including time to complete the activity materials, costs age, group, Whether or not it's a take and make activity. If it is something where you're not necessarily going to be doing
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so. You're setting up a citizen science event and you're just gonna do some observations. It's gonna be a quick after school event, with some teams that you want to maybe send them home with something you can look for. These taking me to a kits here. All sorts of different options.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So like, let's say, for example, i'm thinking about hosting my star party, and I want to look, and I know i'm really focusing on. I'm doing this event with maybe a tween STEM club, right? So I know that I've got like a middle School Upper Elementary STEM club. So i'm going to look for activities that are appropriate for about 9 to 12 year olds.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and i'm gonna be keeping them like for about 40 min to an hour, maybe an after school program. So I narrow it down that way.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And then I really i'm thinking about. Okay, this is maybe the first meeting. I'm really trying to kick off between club. So i'm going to look for something. That's a little easier lift. Then we'll look for an easy difficulty. Activity
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and i'm at the library. That does a lot of bilingual programming. My tween STEM club is really really focused on as both Spanish speakers and English speakers. So i'm gonna look for bilingual activities as well.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And when you enter all those those filters in well, you'll see it's taking that 530 activities and narrow that down to 14
different activities that I can do that are ready to go for me.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So there's tons of different ways to use the STEM activity, clearing out to find some activities. As I was saying earlier. Maybe you are really interested in hosting some a citizen science project
Dillon Connelly (he/they): for your library around the eclipse. But you're not necessarily sure that the solar science or the clip science ones aren't for you. You can look for beans. One of the things the filters on the sem activity clearinghouse, as you can
Dillon Connelly (he/they): filter by subject matter or theme, so maybe your especially your maybe you're in a warm part of the country and the Annular Act to eclipse in October. It's gonna be on a really sunny hot day, and you want to have a water. Themed activity. So people can cool down while they're doing that. You can look on there for some water theme
Dillon Connelly (he/they): as well.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So here you can see those are all the filters that I've done, and narrow that down. So this is what one of the pages will look like when you click on one of the activity pages. It'll have an activity link to open the activity we usually link out to the original source unless it's no longer hosted there. And then we host the Pdf ourselves.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): But you'll see all of the filters on the right-hand side that are
Dillon Connelly (he/they): for that activity what age groups it's appropriate for the time to complete it, the cost of associated material, etc., etc., and also on these pages some really really cool things. We have related programming resources for each one of these activities.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so either not just the hands on activity. We also have hints for uses and libraries. We'll put them very often. Put some text there with some tips and tricks. We'll also have related links to either the same activity from a different source
Dillon Connelly (he/they): or a very closely related activity. This, so you can have or draw some inspiration on some twists that you might be able to put on that activity, or how it might be deployed in different contacts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We have a link to that original source, and one of my favorite things that we do because we are at a library Focus association is that we put there links to World cat lifting for related books for these activities.
So if you're thinking, if you're really thinking expansively about some of your eclipse, Citizen science programming, finding activities on here, and you want to put together, maybe a reading list for your visitors. There's a
Dillon Connelly (he/they): book recommendations for a lot of our activities as well. So as you can see, there's a lot of ways to build out, step by step, these kind of citizen science events using some of our resources.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): One thing I also want to know, too, is we're always asking if you do use one of our the activities from the STEM activity Clearing House. We have a review section. These review section both give tips to us about how we might be able to
Dillon Connelly (he/they): create additional resources that help libraries run these activities better, and is a great way for librarians to to know when they're checking out the STEM activity, clearing out
Dillon Connelly (he/they): the library that other librarians have used these activities, and either like them or dislike them. So we're always asking for honest reviews on there. So please please do not hesitate to leave a review of you. Use any of our STEM activity clearing how to read
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so once again that the stomach should be clearing house, clearinghouse, dot, starnet library.org cannot recommend enough checking that out if you haven't already, or even if you're familiar with it, we're adding activities all the time. So go check it out a new.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So now i'm going to turn this back to roll and talk a little bit about registering your event through size, starter, and getting your event registered on the side. Starter Calendar.
Roland Moundalak: Thank you. So it's very easy to add an event to size starter. You simply have to sign up for a free account and then visit this page. You'll have to enter some details about your project and how to
Roland Moundalak: how users can participate, be it an online project, or so be it a virtual event or an event which you have to attend in person.
Roland Moundalak: and we will publish it as soon as you. You submit it.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Thanks so much.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Shantelle. Yes, I wanted to make sure. I pointed this out. Yes, this: if you have jointly and admit part of this Webinar, or have to leave early today. We are going to be posting the recording of this Webinar on our Youtube Channel, as well as on the starnet webinar page as well.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So now we're gonna talk a little about okay. So now we've gotten we picked our Citizen Science Project. We got an amazing speaker. We picked out some hands on activities. We're good to go, but how do I get people to my event
mit ctl, and that's where promotion comes in. So first I want to talk about a couple of resources that we've put together that both sidesstarter and SSI have put together, and then I thought it would open up the floor to talk a little bit, to open up the floor to y'all, to talk about some strategies, 101
Dillon Connelly (he/they): that you have done to promote events in the past, because we know that you all are so creative and have such great ideas.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So first, Seinfeld has put together. Some really cool free resources@sidestarted.org slash, library, promotional resources. This has social media assets, images, all sorts of students and science duties to create some really fantastic promotional materials for yourself.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We've also, if you've been liking any of the graphics that we've put together in this presentation, all of the graphics that we've developed our wonderful encounters. Designer Amy has made some really really amazing solar eclipse activities for libraries.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): backgrounds, icons, all sorts of stuff and some really cool, ready to go flyers for the eclipses as well. So that link is both here and in the getting started with deal blog posts, so you can use any of those assets they're there for you to use. So combining these 2, especially if you're doing a citizen science
Dillon Connelly (he/they): eclipse event or solar science event, combining the resources from these 2, bring them together in a a publisher file, or a work file, or even using them on canva. If anybody is familiar with using canva to create some
Dillon Connelly (he/they): promotional material, really, really great options you're trying to to to make available for you.
So I thought on, while we have some ideas about promoting events.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Why, Don't, we open it up to the floor. What are some ways that y'all have promoted events in the past that either in straightforward ways or out of the box. Creative way. If you just
Dillon Connelly (he/they): using the i'll. you can use your unmute or feel free to share in the chat.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Alright. Jenny is at Flyers, a website calendar Website Calendar is a really fantastic Facebook event.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): sharing out on social media. That's always great. In fact, some of the both the side starter and the seal link that I have on screen right now have social media ready assets as well. So those are not just flyers, but we also have those practices ability to make social media posts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Sarah thinks, sending Tds to local schools to send home with parents. Absolutely one thing I've been I've been looking for. So if anybody has been using Peachtree or their community, their local school district uses peachtree or a similar app. These graphics we've made are really great for putting together some to send out for a peachtree.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We've got people saying, oh, let's see. We have a newsletter that goes out twice per month at listing. All of our events. Regular newsletters are really fantastic interviews with local newspapers, always great to get the local word out.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Janet, to talk up a forthcoming programs in your current programs. Get the parents to post on closed social media platforms which reach the parents in the community.
Absolutely. That's a really fantastic idea, always really great. I mean, that's one of the things we try and do. Here is we plug upcoming events when we're talking about a at our current one.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so getting that continuity. And that's a really great way to build a local a base of visitors who are coming to programs repeatedly as well as hopefully. Maybe you know a really great way to build volunteer core things like that, as you're creating that kind of community of repeated visitors.
The app ask the newspaper to do an article about the event. Always great email subscriber, social media, local newspapers and radio Npr: local public radio is a great option.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Community, college and local schools, also really great options, and also a really great way to maybe potentially make a connection with a guest speaker or a subject matter expert, especially if you're talking about local science educators really really great connections to make there one
Dillon Connelly (he/they): chatting with patrons, cross-marketing programs. Press releases another plug for newsletters. Really fantastic idea. Science Club that's another really great one If you have a science club, you're hosting your library or science clubs at local schools or Community Science Club.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): all really really fantastic ideas. So, as you all can see, there's a ton of different ways to get the the word out, and i'm sure we've even we barely scratch the surface ideas. So we said don't forget to inform local scouting groups. That's another great one, a lot of
youth organizations, especially ones that do badges like scouts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): have some sort of astronomy, science badges that they might have for that, so reaching out to them, seeing if there's ways you can coordinate. Is that that match their requirements? A really really great way to plan some
Dillon Connelly (he/they): mit ctl and 4 H. Clubs or another great example, Vicki said. They sent canvas lines to schools for their programs to wrote in on their monitors, and always in classroom, a really really fantastic idea, providing digital assets, not just physical asset to 150,
Dillon Connelly (he/they): especially when you're talking about local high schools. If you have, are lucky enough to be in an area where the local school has funding to do their own kind of to
Dillon Connelly (he/they): the announcements or anything like that, providing graphics and digital resources, digital versions of any fires you create to those organizations so they can share that out on their digital platform and double your reach that way. It's a really really smart idea. Thanks for sharing that thinking
Dillon Connelly (he/they): all right. So we've got it. It's about 10 min left, and in the last 10 min of these webinars. What we really like to do is open the floor and let you all ask any questions you have
Dillon Connelly (he/they): about what we've talked about today the seal project in General citizen science. I know that we've kind of rushed through things we did our intro Webinar a couple of weeks ago, and this this one we've been kind of barreling through with resources, but not really talking about citizen science itself. So if you all have any questions
Dillon Connelly (he/they): about anything. I will go ahead and open the floor to you.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): All right, Jamie said. Where do we go for the glasses? So in the getting started with seal blog post, you'll see a link to register for your free solar Viewing glasses. I will also pull that link out separate right now, unless we address, or Claire has that hand be
the
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I got so many windows open for this Webinar.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Okay, I have it. I can put it in
Dillon Connelly (he/they): perfect thanks. Claire
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Amanda, the I think the app just put a link to our social, our Youtube Channel in the chat. We have the first Webinar. If you missed it, that intro to citizen science. If you're you've spent the last 50 min going. Okay, this sounds great, but I don't know
Dillon Connelly (he/they): we have a great intro to citizen science, also hosted with side starter, or where they go into depth about the trainings that they offer on their website, and how to get started with becoming a citizen scientist, and that link is the the recorded link to that is the on our Youtube Channel, as well as in the getting started with field blog posts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Donna said. Well, we receive an email with the link to recording for this Webinar we, I, we will not be sending out email links to this, but we it will be posted both on our Youtube Channel. If you subscribe to our Youtube Channel, and the link to the recording will be posted in our getting sort of seal blog post. So I invite you to go ahead and
Dillon Connelly (he/they): bookmark those to keep up with when that i'll also be posting it to the starnet Community website and the Eclipse group as well.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Sarah asks, do you all have any activities on what you do when it is a cloudy day. That's my biggest fear getting everything planned. And then we don't see it. Actually, that is a really great question, Sarah, and a lot of the activities we have developed for the solar eclipse activities for libraries program have both extensions or twists. You can put them on.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So, like I was mentioning earlier the solar, the pizza box, solar oven, the pizza box, solar oven also comes with an extension to create. If it's a less than a sunny day, or it's a little less warm. How to turn that into a solar still that you can either that you can still use on a cloudy day to talk about water purification and some of the physics involved there.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so that oh, thank you so much. The entrepreneurs for putting that link down just just with the link to our first Webinar in this series on the Chat.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So there are many ways, and a lot of our activities on the STEM Activity Clearing house have facilitation, guides, and ideas on how to change those programs from Hi in person to hybrid, how to there a lot of the tips. If you look at the programming resources on those individual pages.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I have advice on how to change those. But so yeah, so there are a ton of ways of of coming up with ways to to do these equip these eclipse programs, the the solar activities, even if it is a cloudy day, you have to do it inside.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Clary also just put in the chat as well. It clips chalk. Art is one of the favorites that can be great. We need to do the eclipse of the clouds. There's ton of activities that, like there's chalk art activities pocket solar system. So there are a ton of activities available on the STEM activity, clearing out that you can have as backups if you're not going to be able to go outside.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Would you please post a link for the program that has the glasses protectors. So that is it that we we we post it that way.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Y. That is on the Clearing house, and Beatrice just put it in the checked
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Excellent. So yeah, that activity for the classes protectors that principal glasses protector, is on in the collection the solar eclipse activities for libraries collection
Dillon Connelly (he/they): How it's.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I had a program on sunrise using the sun to make sign out of times. That sounds awesome, really really cool idea.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Oh, but it had a cloudy day. Oh, that's a bummer there. Another thing you might be able to do is one thing I've done for these these kind of activities is, if you can get your hands on like a grow light of some sort, like I've gotten a couple of like Leds
Dillon Connelly (he/they): off of a Amazon, or just at your local Walmart, and a bright lep lamp can be used in door for a lot of the stuff with shadow, tracing any of those kind of activities where you just are using the sun's light a bright led lamp, and bringing that inside can be a great way
to adapt that activity. If it is a cloudy or rainy day.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I know I live in the Pacific Northwest. Rainy days are a common problem. Well, not problem, but a hard to predict when the sun will all will be a 100 out here in the Pacific Northwest. So I definitely feel the cloudy and rainy day concern.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Let's see just to double check if we requested the eclipse classes, or we guaranteed the number of classes that we were requested. If, yes, when can we expect delivery, Brenda. That's a great question right now. We everybody who has filled out the complete application and provided the the administration letter of support for that should be receiving the amount they requested.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Guy, our admin person is working hard, getting all these shipments out. If you have any concerns about
Dillon Connelly (he/they): your order, where you would like to confirm that everything is a okay for your library's glasses Request. I'm: sure sky is going to really appreciate me putting their email address in the chat right now, so they get plenty of questions. But the sky rebuilt
Dillon Connelly (he/they): is our point person, for we're sending out those kits. If you have any questions about whether or not your application is complete or just want to double-check that you can reach out to them at the email address I just put in the chat as 3 bills and do saying, woohoo! Pnw.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): right right, although it's a gorgeous day to day, and I've got to say this is a slightly off topic. I just found out about an hour ago. It's going to be 78 degrees and sunny here on Saturday, and i'm going to soak up so much vitamin d this week.
I'm so excited.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Sean Thomas, for the get link to the getting started with your blog post. If the actress is quickly on the chat. So it's also a great, a different building. Scott. So I I can't recommend that enough. I I a $20. Lev grow lamp is a really great act replacement for the sun, if you need to, for for all sorts of solar based and light activities.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): All right. I've been talking about your office. Anybody have any questions? I know I've been talking on some. Did everybody want to unmute and ask a question, or for a question of the chat that they were worried about me stopping talking in order to ask.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): All right, I guess not. All right. I You know I was. Oh, for cloudy days you could hold a shadow puppet show, featuring the sun and moon as the puppets. That's a great idea, Janet. and that's a really great idea. If you have the art supplies, anyway, or you've gotten the suppliers for a certain activity, You're so creative a great way to come up with. Maybe ideas to share these kind of ideas.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So the the starnet community website is a great way to play a way to ask other librarians what they've done in similar circumstances. So I know that I seem like i'm getting paid per plug for the Sarnet Community site. But I promise you it's a really really great resource that I invite you all to
Dillon Connelly (he/they): for all right. I am always worried that we are going to be over or under time, and it magically works out that it's exactly an hour when we do these, and I think I I must have the magic touch.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So I want to thank Claire and Roland for presenting with me today. I want to thank all of you for coming and having this great discussion around programming ideas and citizen science, I couldn't be more thrilled that we get to share this information with Y'all
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and I'm really excited to see what hopefully i'll share out what you're doing on the starting community page, and we can keep in touch and see what you all are working on. So i'm gonna put my email in the chat once more. If you have any questions about anything we've covered today, any of our upcoming webinars
Dillon Connelly (he/they): or anything about seal in general. Go ahead and shoot me an email. I I can't answer it. I'll direct you in the right place. You can. So thanks again for coming today. Thanks, Claire and Rowland, and I hope you all have a fantastic rest of your week.
Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her): Thanks, everybody.