AWOC Facilitator
Workshop
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A key component of AWOC is the collaborative
effort required of the SOO and the WDTB instructors. To establish
this collaboration prior to the distance learning portion of AWOC, WDTB
held a series of 3-day kick-off workshops in Norman, OK during August-October 2004.
Facilitator Workshop Objectives
- Develop an enthusiastic partnership in delivery of the course
- Familiarize the facilitator with the objectives and goals of AWOC
- Introduce the facilitator to course content
- Provide training addressing the role of on-site course facilitator
- How to use the new NWS Learning Management System (LMS) training database
- Overview of AWOC delivery methods
- Demonstrate AWOC Weather Event Simulator (WES) simulations
- As a training tool
- As an evaluation tool
- Introduce SOOs to select presentations from WDTB instructors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
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AWOC Facilitator Workshop Agenda
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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
| 8 am |
- Welcome/Logistics
- You Make the Call!
- AWOC Overview
- Facilitation Basics
- Simulation Theory
- AWOC Simulation Overview |
- Core Track Overview
- Review of selected Core Track ICs
- Evaluation techniques |
- Severe Track Overview
- Review of selected Severe Track ICs |
| Noon |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| 1:15 pm |
- LMS Overview
- AWOC Simulation Cases
- Daily wrap-up and discussions |
- Simulation 1
- Sim Wrap-up and discussion
- Daily wrap-up and discussions |
- Simulation 2
- Sim Wrap-up and discussion
- Daily wrap-up and discussions |
| 5:00 pm |
End |
End |
End |
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The WDTB Research and Training (WRAT) Lab
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The PUP lab has been revitalized into the WRAT. There are 24 three headed dual 2.4GHz Xeon processor workstations connected via 1Gb Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN).
The Lab Workstations are provided data by a dual 2.6 GHz Xeon Server with 100 GB SCSI RAID 5 capability.
The Lab is typically used to provide group WES simulations. |
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The Andover Classroom |
The newly refurbished Andover Classroom is stocked with 24 laptop computers for workshop attendees. The computers have Internet access to facilitate training. Hands-On training on the live LMS will be provided during the Workshop.
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