Welcome to Expert Voices (EV), the blogosphere of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) which is dedicated to featuring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) discussions and information of interest for teachers, students, NSDL Pathways, NSF-funded projects and partners. EV is a dynamic information space that reflects NSDL itself–a no-cost nationwide network of context-rich collections, robust partnerships, and online educational services organized in support of STEM teaching and learning funded by the National Science Foundation.
A wide range of topics in connection with the NSDL network may be browsed on the EV “gateway” at http://expertvoices.nsdl.org where you will notice many STEM discipline expert bloggers such as:
Cornell Professors David Easley and Jon Kleinberg who use EV blogs to support classroom instruction:
- Cornell Info 2040 - Networks
- Est. January 2007: 2,175 posts and 308 comments, contained within 8 categories and 538 tags
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Dr. Stephanie Chasteen, better know as “sciencegeekgirl,” who offers cool science tricks, pedagogical tips for grades 9-14 educators, insights into research on learning and teaching and hands-on classroom activities:
- sciencegeekgirl
- Est. March 2009: 49 posts and 9 comments, contained within 22 categories and 80 tags
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Teaching and Learning experts at the Ohio State University who help middle school math and science teachers find the best resources on the web and encourage teachers to use current events as teaching opportunities:
- Exemplary Resources for Middle School Math and Science
- Est. February 2008: 123 posts and 154 comments, contained within 139 categories and 309 tags
- Connecting News with National Education Standards
- Est. September 2007: 71 posts and 51 comments, contained within 48 categories and 328 tags
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Magazine Editors who use EV to help elementary teachers gain knowledge about the polar regions along with providing best practices on how to integrate polar concepts into their teaching:
- Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
- Est. October 2007: 243 posts and 136 comments, contained within 30 categories and 933 tags
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Editors and collaborators of NSDL Imprint, The National Science Teachers Association-Children’s Book Council, the Society for Science and the Public/Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and 15 leading research publishers, who work with the NSDL Resource Center to offer NSDLClassic Articles in Context, and highlight it’s contents in EV:
- NSDL Imprint
- Est. March 2008: 4 posts and 3 comments, contained within 7 categories and 46 tags
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Any EV blog, as well as any individual blog post and linked resources may be added to the NSDL Collection by blog editors. This facility allows for EV blogs and related information to become discoverable and more widely Web accessible through the NSDL search index. To find out about blogging for the National Science Digital Library please contact NSDL Expert Voices Manager Laura Lusk.
