Cordova Energy Center

This is the skeleton blog where I would like to see the data for this project posted.  Brendan put it together for me after a few conversations we had regarding the needs I see as important for this project.

I like this because its a secure place for data to be stored where we can maximize the number of people who have the ability to see it.  When students or the adult supervisor takes data  we want be able to a. know that its done, and b. see if there are any interesting patterns that are developing.   I want a place for students to be able to post new ideas about what observations they are seeing around the digester data, and get feedback from team members.  I also think there is value in this being open for other schools to check out our vast media library that will develop as we begin dumping photos and videos related to the project.

This site is not finished, its a skeleton – Brandon would need to spend some more time tweaking things to make everything really tight and blunderproof, and all of us would need to add content where necessary.  I will work with my students to add content.  Can you look over the site, evaluate the structure and the layout, and consider its overall importance in this project.  For me its the hitching post that I need to connect all the aspects of the data collection of this project, and it simultaneously serves as a vehicle for sharing the learning process that we are going through.   Brandon spent four or five hours putting this together today as a test – to really make it smooth, robust, and secure would take a larger time commitment, and reimbursement for his time.  After I listed out all the things I wanted this (filters, levels of permissions, media galleries.. etc) to be able to do – he estimated close to 100 hours of work.

Please post a comment – At this point nobody else is reading this post – so don’t worry.  I have had experience running user driven websites before and can attest that they are easy to get started on… but a chore to maintain unless they are designed well from the ground up.  I will never be able to have my students use anything like facebook or youtube to share information about this project because of restrictions and baggage that come with the other things.  We would need to value this enough to allocate some funds for it.

Comment away !

Adam