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Creating an Environmental Education Website at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

van der Heijden, Anna M. H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1019050512

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2002, Master of Technical and Scientific Communication, Miami University, Technical and Scientific Communication.
This report describes my 16-week internship at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD, where I started on 29 January 2001 as an "Education Specialist/Web Developer" at SERC's education department. I was responsible for the website for the Education Department and for a website related to Watershed Radio, an environmental education project about the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In this report, I describe the five phases of the development of the website, namely the 1) Information Planning Phase; 2) Content-Specification Phase; 3) Implementation Phase; 4) Production Phase; and 5) Evaluation Phase. I also discuss the difference between education and advocacy and how the combination of a non-contextualized model and a website-specific tutorial provides a good basis for developing a website. The internship report ends with the conclusion that my internship was successful; although I could have done a better job of planning and managing my project, I delivered a well-received product, learned a lot, and worked with great colleagues at an interesting organization.
W. Simmons (Advisor)
88 p.
environmental education; web design; website; web site; online publication; publication's development life cycle; JoAnn T. Hackos' model; information architecture; IA; advocacy; education department; internship; technical writing; science communication

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  • van der Heijden, A. M. H. (2002). Creating an Environmental Education Website at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1019050512

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • van der Heijden, Anna. Creating an Environmental Education Website at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 2002. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1019050512.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • van der Heijden, Anna. "Creating an Environmental Education Website at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1019050512

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.