I am impressed by the creativity and motivation that students generate when they latch onto something they are passionate about. The Delftia Citizen Science group of undergraduates launched an entirely online collaborative research, annotation, and public science initiative last fall. Lauren Ramilo and Daiza Norman helped coordinate a group that at times had a dozen undergraduates volunteering to take the WikiEdu training necessary to edit Wikipedia pages on Delftia! They did an incredible job using Hypothes.is and a sophisticated tag system to read, annotate, share, and analyze Delftia studies in a wide variety of fields. Lauren is an amazing communicator and blogged about the progress of the group in our classroom Alchemy Blog:
Daiza has been preparing samples and learning about Delftia for several years. I am excited to hear what both of them will end up doing now that they graduated! This isn’t the end of the blog and Delftia Hub: Rabeya and several others are actively involved. We had our first group meeting on Thursday. For now, read this blog post to learn about what Lauren and the group presented at SENCER. I bet you’ll be as impressed as I am!
