Saturday 8th February
There's a lot of wildlife on the web! Websites with lots of reference material, interactive blogs and social media, citizen science activities, online identification keys - the possibilities are endless. This course provides an overview of some of the best natural history resources currently available, and offers guidance on how you can make safe and effective use of them, and contribute your own knowledge online. The course will cover a range of topics including iSpot, iRecord, use of the free web resources from Google, biological recording blogs, online mapping, online keys, mobile apps, Facebook and Twitter. Come prepared to share your own ideas and online experience as well.
NB: to take part in this course you will need to bring a laptop that is capable of logging on to the wifi at the Field Studies Centre. (A tablet computer or mobile phone can be used as an alternative, but not all the course activities will be possible on mobile devices). If you have a digital camera (or phone camera) please bring that with you as well.
The day will consist mostly of indoor computer-based demonstrations and exercises (but we will get outdoors for a short time to look for 'real-world' wildlife as well!).
10.15: Registration, introductions, set-up computers
11.00: Wildlife on the web - a tourist's guide
11.45: Going social: blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube etc.
12.30: Lunch and field trip (please bring a packed lunch)
1.30: Using iSpot and iRecord
2.45: Online data, recording schemes and the National Biodiversity Network
3.00: Google maps and websites
3.45: Summary
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