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Working along with Zooniverse projects and students incorporating the English Language creates enthusiasm among the learners, as much as adult would find how interesting the Zooniverse projects are, the learners too are exploring it with curiosity
You don’t need any specialised background, training, or expertise to participate in any Zooniverse projects. It makes it easy for anyone to contribute to real academic research, on their own computer, at their own convenience.
You'd be able to study authentic objects of interest gathered by researchers, like images of faraway galaxies, historical records and diaries, or videos of animals in their natural habitats. By answering simple questions about them, you’ll help contribute to our understanding of our world, our history, our Universe, and more.
This helps scientists know more about galaxies, stars, seas and the nature around us and you'll get the satisfaction of knowing you helpeed for future generations to come.
With the wide-ranging and ever-expanding suite of projects, covering many disciplines and topics across the sciences and humanities, there's a place for anyone and everyone to explore, learn and have fun in the Zooniverse. To volunteer with them, just go to the Projects page, choose one you like the look of, and get started. It's a real bonus to do and you'll get a boost of energy from your pride.
If it helps, gaze at the projects and about page for more information to get started. What should delay you?
Do you enjoy doing your job? It sounds very interesting and I use zoouniverse to help scientists preserve habitats and species for future generations. How and what to do get involved in?
I'm Chubashini Amirtham , an English Educator and a 21st Century Learning expert, promoting 21st Century Learning Pedagogies worldwide, I have been working along Zooniverse projects and overwhelmed of all the exposure that Zooniverse projects offers to the educators and students.
I have set up a classroom in Wildwatch Kenya for my students to review photos before working with the data. Although it has tracked progress properly when I set it up in March, the classroom site does not seem to be tracking progress now. (It does load photos and allow classifications. The field guide feature is working.)
Is there a reason that this classroom is not updating participant activity?
Thanks for any clarification I can share with my worried students!
@Clgurbin, tips for the Planet Hunters project are more likely to reach people who can use them if you post them on the Planet Hunters Talk page rather than here on the general Zooniverse Talk page.
I’m just speaking from about a year of experience volunteering on this platform and reading through various threads.
I think it will be nearly impossible to get a public zooniverse project because the reviewing process is very strict to ensure that volunteer time is not wasted and the whole process will probably take longer than the usual timeframe for a science fair project.
I am a teacher with high school students getting ready to do science fair projects. I have one student who is very excited about animals and ecology, and so a zooniverse-based project seems like a great fit!
Has anyone out there helped guide a student through using zooniverse to collect data as a mini science fair project? Is this even possible?
If you want to be (almost) absolutely safe you can always have this as a private project, where you only give out the url to a limited and selected group of people. But even then, you need a dedicated group of people to monitor the Talk boards (team/scientists/moderators/... ) .
And do remember that kids these days are very internet savvy.
I'm a moderator over on Galaxy Zoo, and every now and then we get posts with lots or Uranus jokes (sigh) or just the variant of 'you smell' , 'no, you smell' posts.
But a constant monitoring of the Talk Boards is the way to go to keep things sqeaky clean.
The projects with which I'm involved all successfully hold up the Zooniverse Community Standards as expected and required behaviour. Moderators and research team members are responsible for presenting, referring to, modeling, and making sure these behaviours are understood and followed. In Penguin Watch we've had excellent volunteers of all ages including school and university students and family groups working together, with the youngest volunteer I'm aware of around two years of age, and the eldest (aged like fine wine) in their eighties.
Thanks for your reply @trouille. Sounds like moderators are the way to go, although it won't be completely safe, unless we constantly monitor the talk channels.
Hi @caroline_cox - Good to see your question. When setting up a project, the research team leading the effort commits to being present and responsive in the Talk discussion boards. See https://help.zooniverse.org/best-practices/. Talk is a really important way to engage and give back to participants; enable pathways for meaning making. Talk is also where many important serendipitous discoveries have been made through Zooniverse projects. We do not disable the discussion boards for these reasons.
Hi @trouille , and anyone else who can help- I've found this thread when looking to see if there is any information on safeguarding with Zooniverse. I have a beta project set up currently, and working on getting funding to continue it. In recent feedback from funders, there was concern about school (primary) age children using the project due to the open nature of the Talk board. Can I ask, is this board moderated? Is it possible to disable it? Has this come up as an issue for anyone else with Zooniverse projects aimed at younger people, and how did you address these concerns? Thank you!
Interesting question @Anvesha. Could you send an email to contact@zooniverse.org with more details about your project (ideally a link to your project so we can see directly) and some of the motivation for why you're interested in classifying your data according to age? That will help us best respond/advise you.
(Note: for future readers of this thread in case you have a similar/related question -- There isn't a built in functionality or automated way to do this with the zooniverse.org/lab project builder platform. You could include this as a first question in your workflow, but that would get quite tedious for participants who do multiple classifications. No matter the approach, your project would need ethics review/IRB approval. Best to send an email to us at contact@zooniverse.org with more details and we can advise on your specific case.)
Hi. For our project we want to know the volunteers age in order to classify our data according to their age and education background. How do we do that?
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November 13th 2024, 7:11 pm
The Zooniverse platform will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, November 20 from 4pm-10pm US Central Standard Time (2024-11-20 22:00 UTC to 2024-11-21 4:00 UTC). During this period, all projects and platform services will be inaccessible. We apologize for the inconvenience; this maintenance is necessary to make updates to platform infrastructure and improve long-term reliability and uptime. Please visit status.zooniverse.org for updates before and during the downtime period. For any questions, please email contact@zooniverse.org.
May 25th 2023, 3:19 am
Working along with Zooniverse projects and students incorporating the English Language creates enthusiasm among the learners, as much as adult would find how interesting the Zooniverse projects are, the learners too are exploring it with curiosity
May 20th 2023, 11:32 am
You don’t need any specialised background, training, or expertise to participate in any Zooniverse projects. It makes it easy for anyone to contribute to real academic research, on their own computer, at their own convenience.
You'd be able to study authentic objects of interest gathered by researchers, like images of faraway galaxies, historical records and diaries, or videos of animals in their natural habitats. By answering simple questions about them, you’ll help contribute to our understanding of our world, our history, our Universe, and more.
This helps scientists know more about galaxies, stars, seas and the nature around us and you'll get the satisfaction of knowing you helpeed for future generations to come.
With the wide-ranging and ever-expanding suite of projects, covering many disciplines and topics across the sciences and humanities, there's a place for anyone and everyone to explore, learn and have fun in the Zooniverse. To volunteer with them, just go to the Projects page, choose one you like the look of, and get started. It's a real bonus to do and you'll get a boost of energy from your pride.
If it helps, gaze at the projects and about page for more information to get started. What should delay you?
May 20th 2023, 11:21 am
Do you enjoy doing your job? It sounds very interesting and I use zoouniverse to help scientists preserve habitats and species for future generations. How and what to do get involved in?
May 17th 2023, 9:52 am
I'm Chubashini Amirtham , an English Educator and a 21st Century Learning expert, promoting 21st Century Learning Pedagogies worldwide, I have been working along Zooniverse projects and overwhelmed of all the exposure that Zooniverse projects offers to the educators and students.
April 10th 2023, 9:46 pm
Perhaps it would help to email contact@zooniverse.org .
April 4th 2023, 5:47 pm
I have set up a classroom in Wildwatch Kenya for my students to review photos before working with the data. Although it has tracked progress properly when I set it up in March, the classroom site does not seem to be tracking progress now. (It does load photos and allow classifications. The field guide feature is working.)
Is there a reason that this classroom is not updating participant activity?
Thanks for any clarification I can share with my worried students!
January 19th 2023, 12:18 am
@Clgurbin, tips for the Planet Hunters project are more likely to reach people who can use them if you post them on the Planet Hunters Talk page rather than here on the general Zooniverse Talk page.
January 18th 2023, 9:06 pm
In trying to do a better job classifying Planet Hunter targets, this site adds to the recognition of what we hunt.
Often we see incredible sights, some mind-boggling, as we classify.
https://www.aavso.org/variables-what-are-they-why-observe-them?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=cdf288ae98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-cdf288ae98-395696169&mc_cid=cdf288ae98&mc_eid=ba93504c63
November 15th 2022, 6:15 pm
I’m just speaking from about a year of experience volunteering on this platform and reading through various threads.
I think it will be nearly impossible to get a public zooniverse project because the reviewing process is very strict to ensure that volunteer time is not wasted and the whole process will probably take longer than the usual timeframe for a science fair project.
However I definitely think it’s possible to have a private project built and you can then share the link to the whole school or wherever (Might okay to share on this TALK forum as well? Not sure if it’s against any rules). Here’s the link to Zooniverse’s project builder. Here’s also a few links to some guides for using the project builder:
https://help.zooniverse.org/getting-started/
https://help.zooniverse.org/getting-started/example/
October 31st 2022, 9:15 pm
Hello!
I am a teacher with high school students getting ready to do science fair projects. I have one student who is very excited about animals and ecology, and so a zooniverse-based project seems like a great fit!
Has anyone out there helped guide a student through using zooniverse to collect data as a mini science fair project? Is this even possible?
Thank you!
October 27th 2022, 1:57 pm
This comment has been deleted
September 23rd 2022, 5:47 pm
If you want to be (almost) absolutely safe you can always have this as a private project, where you only give out the url to a limited and selected group of people. But even then, you need a dedicated group of people to monitor the Talk boards (team/scientists/moderators/... ) .
And do remember that kids these days are very internet savvy.
I'm a moderator over on Galaxy Zoo, and every now and then we get posts with lots or Uranus jokes (sigh) or just the variant of 'you smell' , 'no, you smell' posts.
But a constant monitoring of the Talk Boards is the way to go to keep things sqeaky clean.
September 23rd 2022, 5:02 pm
The projects with which I'm involved all successfully hold up the Zooniverse Community Standards as expected and required behaviour. Moderators and research team members are responsible for presenting, referring to, modeling, and making sure these behaviours are understood and followed. In Penguin Watch we've had excellent volunteers of all ages including school and university students and family groups working together, with the youngest volunteer I'm aware of around two years of age, and the eldest (aged like fine wine) in their eighties.
September 23rd 2022, 8:38 am
Thanks for your reply @trouille. Sounds like moderators are the way to go, although it won't be completely safe, unless we constantly monitor the talk channels.
September 22nd 2022, 3:44 pm
Hi @caroline_cox - Good to see your question. When setting up a project, the research team leading the effort commits to being present and responsive in the Talk discussion boards. See https://help.zooniverse.org/best-practices/. Talk is a really important way to engage and give back to participants; enable pathways for meaning making. Talk is also where many important serendipitous discoveries have been made through Zooniverse projects. We do not disable the discussion boards for these reasons.
Project research team leads also bring on moderators onto their project. See within https://help.zooniverse.org/best-practices/4-resources/ the 'What are Moderators For?' link.
September 22nd 2022, 1:40 pm
Hi @trouille , and anyone else who can help- I've found this thread when looking to see if there is any information on safeguarding with Zooniverse. I have a beta project set up currently, and working on getting funding to continue it. In recent feedback from funders, there was concern about school (primary) age children using the project due to the open nature of the Talk board. Can I ask, is this board moderated? Is it possible to disable it? Has this come up as an issue for anyone else with Zooniverse projects aimed at younger people, and how did you address these concerns? Thank you!
August 1st 2022, 6:14 pm
Interesting question @Anvesha. Could you send an email to contact@zooniverse.org with more details about your project (ideally a link to your project so we can see directly) and some of the motivation for why you're interested in classifying your data according to age? That will help us best respond/advise you.
(Note: for future readers of this thread in case you have a similar/related question -- There isn't a built in functionality or automated way to do this with the zooniverse.org/lab project builder platform. You could include this as a first question in your workflow, but that would get quite tedious for participants who do multiple classifications. No matter the approach, your project would need ethics review/IRB approval. Best to send an email to us at contact@zooniverse.org with more details and we can advise on your specific case.)
August 1st 2022, 6:10 pm
Thank you Pmason for the helpful responses above! So appreciate your input!
August 1st 2022, 2:19 am
Hi. For our project we want to know the volunteers age in order to classify our data according to their age and education background. How do we do that?