{"id":5578,"date":"2018-03-13T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:20:18","slug":"app-project-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/03\/13\/app-project-noah\/","title":{"rendered":"App: Project Noah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at the app Project Noah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectnoah.org\/mobile\">https:\/\/www.projectnoah.org\/mobile<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Project Noah is an app to explore and document wildlife. It also harnesses &#8220;the power of citizen scientists everywhere&#8221;. Users can spot and document wildlife, using several pre-defined categories. Users submit a picture and a description of the spotting; latitude\/longitude and time of spotting are automatically added. Project Noah has a counter on its website indicating 810.570 spottings (13.3., 8 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>Users can leave comments to other spottings, find related or nearby spottings, and help to identify unidentified spottings. They can also join missions that can be predefined by anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding using Project Noah in education, the website writes: &#8221; By encouraging your students to share their observations and contribute to Project Noah missions, you not only help students to reconnect with nature, you provide them with real opportunities to make a difference.&#8221; The website offers missions and challenges to be used in the classroom and supporting materials for the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I really appreciate this simple, yet effective app. Students are encouraged to go into the nature, observe, identify, document, share, and catalogue spottings in a group of peers. This is cooperative learning embedded in a real physical environment. The missions add gamification that will increase motivation. I see this related to LfU &#8211; it is about applying scientific research principles (observing, analysing, documenting) and about knowledge construction while doing research. And, most importantly: It is very easy to use, only a mobile phone is needed, no complex technology. So the barriers to try it out seem rather low to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at the app Project Noah (https:\/\/www.projectnoah.org\/mobile). Project Noah is an app to explore and document wildlife. It also harnesses &#8220;the power of citizen scientists everywhere&#8221;. Users can spot and document wildlife, using several pre-defined categories. Users submit a picture and a description of the spotting; latitude\/longitude and time of spotting are automatically added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45442,"featured_media":5579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resource-sharing-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}