http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast A year after hurricanes devastated New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities, schools are open but struggling to replace libraries, equipment, and staff. Digital educators and others gathered late in September to discuss the best ways to help. Here\'s a report from the conference and follow-ups on the most interesting ideas we found there. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:05:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Clark High School is in New Orleans’ BW Cooper neighborhood, on the edge of the flooding and a few blocks from the Superdome. Before it re-opened in April 2006, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made Clark throw away all of its library books, which were contaminated with mold. ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/10/12/wheres-the-new-library/ It takes a lot of computer power to predict where an ocean storm will hit, how high the storm surge will be, and the damage that will ensue. The process starts when meteorologists collect thousands of data points from buoys, satellites, ships, and other sources. The data describe surface ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/10/03/supercomputers-and-storms/ Um… “Graphic Novel,” sorry.  Poet Deborah Grison responded to the crisis in New Orleans by writing “No Ark,” the story of a man who decided to ride out the storm and ended up trapped on his roof for days, nearing death.  She brought the poem to artists Damian Duffy and ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/10/03/about-that-comic-book/ “You can’t conceive of how big it is until you see it,” said Daryl Williams, director of the Minority Entrepreneurshp Program at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. “As bad as New Orleans was, Mississippi was worse. I drove 75 miles and everything was literally flattened. When I got ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/10/03/katrina-summit-2-collaboration-and-trust/ The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is clean and new, well designed and well funded. It sits at the edge of the University of Illinois’s main campus (UIUC), on the border of Champaign and Urbana. Its first floor auditorium is as wired as wired can be. I ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/09/29/katrina-conference-2/ CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A year after hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coasts, rebuilding efforts are finally moving forward. But it’s the remaining, deeper tears in the region’s social fabric that will be the main focus of a unique series of dialogues and events at the University ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/09/25/katrina-after-the-storm-conference-1/ A “webinar” is a web seminar -- it is what happens when a group participates in a conference call while they interact on a web site. Web conferencing has become a popular way for business people to attend meetings if they do not have the time or money to travel. ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/09/25/where-do-hurricanes-come-from/ Brad Edmondson is a journalist who has been writing about NSDL for three years. He is the former Editor-In-Chief of American Demographics magazine and co-founder of ePodunk.com, which provides free and comprehensive profiles of places in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/gulfcoast/2006/09/21/hello-world/