I co-ordinate a citywide schools nature project and would like to support teachers to use iNaturalist with their classes so that data collected contributes to citizen science, and so that we can record their progress in wilding areas.
Our schools devices have Seek installed and I know that Seek can be connected to an iNaturalist account. If this account belonged to a teacher, they could connect their account to the pupil Seek apps. However, sometimes (with the best will in the world and close instruction and supervision) images with pupil faces may accidentally be taken by children.
Is there a way to set up a “holding area” or an approval process for upload of Seek data when Seek is connected to iNaturalist so that teachers can sense check and then upload appropriate observations?
I would like to avoid teachers having to download images from each child’s device and manually upload these to iNaturalist as, with an enthusiastic class of 33, that could be very time consuming and may put them off using the apps.
Does the school have a shared cloud or something where the pupils could upload their photos to a designated folder? And then from there select photos could be uploaded to iNaturalist.
This would still require teachers to create observations for each photo or set of photos rather than having the Seek-iNaturalist interface do it for them, but if they are checking the photos anyway, creating observations is not particularly time-consuming (assuming they have experience using iNaturalist).
Depending on the age of the students, the teachers might be able to recruit a few students as tech assistants for extra credit or as an extra curricular activity.