Mobilizing the Web for Urban and Community Forestry Education (03-DG-11244225-160)

This project contains a website in association with Project Learning Tree that provides online urban and community forestry resources for educators and students.

The Urban and Community Forestry Education Resource website is a new component of Project Learning Tree (PLT) that provides educators and their students with online urban and community forestry resources that include information and education about the social, economic, and ecological values of urban and community forests.

This resource, found at http://www.plt.org/cms/urbanforestry/ lists, organizes, provides an annotated bibliography for, and links to websites of urban and community forestry organizations and similar organizations relevant to activities in PLT's dynamic PreK-12 environmental education curriculum.

The site provides educators with a quick and ready resource for delivering better urban and community forestry education and to continue meeting the education standards they must address daily. Likewise, it increases student exposure to forestry issues, forestry organizations, and forestry career opportunities.

Project Learning Tree is one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad and is connected to a half a million educators and their students. Many of the activities in the PLT guides have direct relevance to urban and community forestry issues, and by connecting educators and students to relevant websites and organizations, these activities have new breadth, their teaching can be greatly enriched, and students are able to draw on a new wealth of diverse web resources and innovative learning tools.

•Research appropriate web links in urban and community forestry.

•Develop web link on PLT home website

•List, organize, and create annotated bibliography for many links.

•Identify and convene Advisors in first meeting for development of PLT Web Project

•Develop support material for incorporation to training workshops

•Develop promotional materials and strategy for promotional campaign.

•Implement distribution efforts.

•Implement training efforts through regular workshops and electronic communication.

•Create and apply new icon for announcement of web resource.

•List new resource on hot topics section of the PLT homepage.

•Develop Internet-based promotion campaign to advertise the resource.

•Research and communicate with relevant listservs.

•Contact relevant organizations in promotion of resource.

•Contact audiences of teachers through government agencies.

•Conduct training sessions at PLT annual conference.

•Implement pre-launch review and testing.

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