7. Watershed Community Center – A Communication, Participation and learning Network
Communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information. Concerned citizen groups in communities, in collaboration with government agencies, non-profits, and businesses are developing community computer network systems. The primary aim of the Watershed Community Center network is to support the local community in participating in watershed restoration projects and democratic decisions for watershed issue management decisions.
http://www.uppersevier.net/commcntr.html
Please click on the “Community Center” link in the main menu bar at the top of the page. Notice the revolving “cubic” panorama that contains a composite of many different background graphics, pictures and text. You will find 8 different “Hot Spot” locations in the panorama that also correspond to the 8 main link pages in the community center. These are the “Bulletin Board”, “Events”, “Volunteering”, “Monitoring”, “Public Forum”, “Education”, “Resource Sharing” and “Reference Library”.
This is an on-line “Watershed Community Center” for the Upper Sevier Watershed project. People who use the web site can come here to participate in volunteer activities, monitoring projects, educational projects and public forums. They can also see a calendar of events and use the message or bulletin board to post ideas for projects and to find people with similar interests. In addition, there are many links to Internet information resources that provide the user with expanded opportunities to learn much more about local, regional and national watershed restoration projects and related concepts.
As noted at the beginning of this demonstration, Upper Sevier watershed restoration projects and this web site effort have only just begun. There are many sub section pages in the Community Center that will eventually contain much more information than they do now.
As an example of the type of information that will be greatly expanded in the future, please click on the “Educational Activities” link.
http://www.uppersevier.net/comcentr/edactive.html
This hot link is available inside of the panorama, as well as on the list of links to the left and on top of the panorama. On this new page, you will notice several categories of links to educational resource information. One of these identifies “Local Teacher and Student Projects.”
Click on the “Students Move Classroom to Panguitch Creek” link. On this new page you will find a detailed description of an outdoor classroom where small groups of students are involved in discovering ideas about several different watershed related concepts. Scroll or click on the subject links to move down the page to see the photographs of the students and teachers in this outdoor classroom and text descriptions of the topics they are discussing.
Please use the navigation menu to click back to the “Educational Activities” main page. Many similar educational projects take place in and outside of classrooms in the Upper Sevier Watershed. A panorama view of students involved in an outdoor classroom is also available. Please click on the “Navajo Lake Frog Sampling panorama” text link. One of the three hotspots in this panorama shows a video of students capturing and measuring leopard frogs. To return to the Education page, click on your browsers “Back” button or the “Educational Activities in the Community Center” link under “Related Links”.
You will notice a link has been made to the local Educational Activities pages on all of the other Interactive Watershed Web sites including the Conasauga, Potomac, Pit, and Upper South Platte projects.
http://www.conasaugariver.net/comcentr/edactive.html
http://www.potomacwatershed.net/comcentr/edactive.html
http://www.pitriveralliance.net/comcentr/edactive.html
http://www.uppersouthplatte.net/comcentr/edactive.html
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