October – November 2014, online
Held from 6 October to 30 November 2014, this CALMet Online event succesfully gathered together old colleagues and welcomed the new one. There were more than 170 participants and facilitators across the globe taking part in sessions. The facilitators took turns in presenting their sessions at mostly in asynchronous mode, but with one synchronous opening chat session on “weather briefing”.
Seven sessions were presented sequentially on various topics. Under the CALMet rainbow, participants and facilitators worked together, posted questions, provided answers, discussed the issues, problems, challenges and alternative solutions. They formed teams and played learning games, collected materials, shared resources, built new networks and strengthened the old ones. They practiced forecasting skills using simulators, and designed and produced useful outputs. The various handy outputs can be a series of learning solutions and activities, a webinar checklist, material and resources on Conceptual Models, practical guidance for preparing for a new satellitte generation or lessons-learned on distance learning and online activities.