COBWEB - Existing Work and Future Plans - Presentation by James Hodges of the Outward Bound Trust at the COBWEB Workshop, 20th May 2014
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"COBWEB - Existing Work and Future Plans". Presentation given by James Hodges, Outward Bound Trust at the Gweithdy COBWEB yn Machynlleth / COBWEB Workshop in Machynlleth on 20th May 2014. Find out more about this event (in Welsh or English/yn Cymraeg neu Saesneg) on the COBWEB Project website: http://bit.ly/1nMjmUP
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COBWEB - Existing Work and Future Plans - Presentation by James Hodges of the Outward Bound Trust at the COBWEB Workshop, 20th May 2014
- 1. COBWEB Existing work and future plans James Hodges Senior Instructor Y Plas, Machynlleth 20th May 2014
- 3. Where, what, how…? • Formed in 1941 in Aberdovey • Leading educational charity working with 9 – 24 year olds • Use adventurous activities and the environment to support the development of young people • Approx 8,500 young people visit Aberdovey centre each year (majority coming from inner city locations) • Six operating locations in the UK
- 4. Why COBWEB…? • SMART Technology • Bringing the environment into the work we do • Adds value • Opportunity to partner with other organisations
- 9. Next steps… • Provide feedback to COBWEB to assist in mobile app development • Provide data to assist in the data management and data quality components of COBWEB • Develop our own understanding of our local, natural environment • Build up local knowledge and monitor our own impacts on the environment • Contribute to the growing COBWEB community
- 10. Next steps… • Provide feedback to COBWEB to assist in mobile app development • Provide data to assist in the data management and data quality components of COBWEB • Develop our own understanding of our local, natural environment • Build up local knowledge and monitor our own impacts on the environment • Contribute to the growing COBWEB community
Editor's Notes
- SMART technology - use for engaging young people and making environment more interesting Supports our aims of “weaving the environment” into all courses Opportunity to partner with other organisations
- John Muir Award: helping to grow the environmental awareness of our young people Pollinators: understanding the important role of pollinators to our natural environment and helping to map locations of thriving pollinator populations as well as the habitats they like. Working with Welsh Government to provide evidence base to important policy development work.
- So…COBWEB lend us 10 devices, I use a webpage with what’s called an ‘authoring tool’ to create specific forms that we use in the field with the young people. I then sync this with the devices so that all the young people see the same thing. The kinds of things that we are interested in depends on the project or the client but at the moment we’re just spotting interesting things in the environment, taking photos and looking at it all on maps when we get back to the Centre. Here’s evidence of a young person using one of the devices!