The Volksdata Cloud Gate
Are you interested in science? A science teacher? Looking for a great science fair project? Environmental activist? Science hobbyist or professional? If so, welcome to the future of collaborative science projects — Volksdata.
Volksdata combines the power of social networking tools with a universal observation database and project management engine to let ordinary people conduct custom-made, networked science projects across their neighborhoods — or around the globe.
Getting started is easy — and FREE!
Just sign up on the login page. This lets you create your own projects that you can share with others. You can record your findings in custom data templates, plus you can use our journaling features to create a blog-like record of your activity. Best of all, you can access the entire Volksdata database and conduct truly comprehensive scientific studies.
Some of Volksdata’s features:
- Create your own online observation projects
- Invite other observers to join and add data to your projects
- Analyze your data with powerful statistical tools
- Display your findings with charts, graphs, and maps
- Search across our entire database for truly synergistic studies
- Perfect for science fair projects, environmental monitoring, bird watching, and nature study of all kinds.
A new kind of science education
You’ve heard about all the studies. Time after time American students rank among the lowest in science literacy worldwide. Across the country, science teachers come up short in their efforts to produce truly science-literate students. But you also know that the future belongs to those who understand science. Volksdata brings the proven power of hands-on, project-centered learning to science education. Using Volksdata as a basis for learning, participants can:
- Discover the craft of scientific observation
- Develop and carry out short– and long-term scientific research
- Expand project management skills
- Form friendships with like-minded people
- Enjoy collaborations with scientists on actual scientific research
- Learn how to think like a scientist
Do you run a website or blog devoted to scientific interests, education, pursuits or inquiry? As an added feature, any individual — as well as organizations or institutions big or small — wanting to engage their site’s visitors more actively can use the Volksdata Web Widget. Put Volksdata tools to use directly where you want them, and…
Distribute the Power of Volksdata
Our Web Widget provides Volksdata users with custom generated code for you to insert into your html, easily embedding the power of Volksdata, all seamlessly contained within your website.
Using the Web Widget is easy — and FREE!
The basic Web Widget will soon be available free to all Volksdata users. If you can copy and paste, you will have the power of Volksdata up and running on your website in minutes. You will have the choice of dedicating a page within your site and embedding Volksdata entirely within that page, or selecting a pop-up option that activates via a button or tab placed where ever you choose, even throughout your entire site.
The Power is Scalable
If you need more power, more features or more flexibility, we are developing Web Widgets that will surely fit the bill.
Building a Community Takes Time, So Stay Tuned
Sign up below to receive info and updates on future releases of the full range of tools from Volksdata when they become available.
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Our aim is to facilitate the sharing of scientific exploration and discovery, not the sharing of people’s names and email addresses. So rest assured, you will not start getting email from things you have never heard of… you probably won’t even hear from us all that much.
You don’t think we would endeavor to develop the next generation of collaborative science and data collecting tools, only to keep you confined to the home, the classroom or the office, do you?
Like Having a Laboratory in Your Pocket
Add an observation, update or data to your project, right where you discover it. You don’t even need to know exactly where you are — Volksdata’s mobile apps will locate you using your phone’s GPS capabilities, and include it in your entry. Use your phone’s camera to instantly add photos to your project entries, so you can catalog your discoveries right there on the spot, where ever you are.
And Our Mobile Apps are Socially Aware
Add an observation, image, project data or update, and have the choice of instantly broadcasting your latest discovery via your Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Building a Community Takes Time, So Stay Tuned
Sign up below to receive info and updates on future releases of the full range of tools from Volksdata when they become available.
[insert email sign-up form]
Our aim is to facilitate the sharing of scientific exploration and discovery, not the sharing of people’s names and email addresses. So rest assured, you will not start getting email from things you have never heard of… you probably won’t even hear from us all that much.
So what are you waiting for? We told you Volksdata is easy to use. We told you it is free. We have put a great deal of time and effort into making Volksdata a system for the masses. The Volksdata system v.2.0 beta site is ready for you to start experimenting, just proceed to the login.
For Us to Grow, You Need to Reproduce
It won’t become a community without you — all of you —bringing your ideas, your creativity, your inspiration and especially your friends! The full power of Volksdata will only be unleashed if you help us, by spreading the word to your friends, your teachers, your students, even people you don’t like very much but just wish would get smarter somehow.