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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">We are excited to announce the return of our popular professional development opportunity:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">This free online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science
is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">The aim of the course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public
participation introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public participation in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools
and online platforms in a public participation in digitization workflow, (4) identify and implement quality management strategies, (5) identify common participant motivations and strategies to recruit and engage participants in a project, including events,
games, and online forums, (6) and perform evaluation of a public participation in digitization project.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as student technicians, collections managers, curators, affiliated educators, or administrators.
The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need prior knowledge of public participation in science, only a desire to use it as part of their future research or digitization activities. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">The course will occur from
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">December 12–15 (Monday–Thursday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm Eastern</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0"> Participants
can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment. We expect to cap the course at 25 participants. We will make admission
decisions based on the relevance of the training to the future of the applicant’s organization and a desire to engage a diversity of perspectives. The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US are welcome to
apply.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">You may apply to participate in this course at:
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/saqinch7v8M2tGUz9" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://forms.gle/saqinch7v8M2tGUz9</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 33, 36);font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">Applications are due by 10:00 am</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 33, 36);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 33, 36);font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">ET
on Friday, November 11.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Questions can be directed to Lauren Cohen (</span><a class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">lcohen3@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">;
iDigBio’s Workforce Development Manager) and Austin Mast (</span><a class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">amast@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">;
Director of iDigBio’s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it. Thanks!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Warm Regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lauren Cohen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">lcohen3@fsu.edu</span></div>
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