AMS DS Meeting 1 Agenda

Welcome and Introductions
- LIT Members
- Participants
The AMS Atmospheric Education Resource Agent (AERA) Network
- Introduction
- History
Overview of The DataStreme Project
- History
- Goals & Objectives
- AERAs versus WERTs (Weather Education Resource Teachers)
Course Registration and Beginning-of-Course Survey
Technical Issues - Are we all online?
Northern Virginia LIT Web Page: http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/amsdsp/NoVALIT.html
Multiple-Address Access to DataStreme Home Page (Note: the old Purdue addresses with will no longer work by end of Summer 1998.)
- New primary DataStreme Web site: http://www.comet.ucar.edu/dstreme/
- http://www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/
- http://atm.geo.nsf.gov/dstreme/
- http://www.weather.brockport.edu/dstreme/
Distribution of Course Materials
- DataStreme Project "Weather Bag"
- DataStreme Study Guide, Part A: Narrative (paperback textbook)
- DataStreme Study Guide, Part B: Applications (3-ring binder)
- AMS Glossary of Weather and Climate
Syllabus and Schedule (set date for mid-course meeting)
Overview of a Typical DataStreme Week
Role of LIT Members as Mentors; Participant Ownership of Learning
Assign Mentors
Drawing Isolines
Question & Answer