Types of educational “artifacts” which could be added to the NSDL Data Repository (NDR) as stand-alone or combined products as they are referenced in blog conversations:

• Lesson plans
• Unit plans
• Games
• Puzzles
• Question and answer sets
• Pathfinders for resources on a topic
• Experiments
• Activities
• Web sites
• Videos
• PowerPoint presentations
• Reports/papers
• Tutorials
• WebQuests
• Plans for physical artifacts (plant, machine, model)
• Tree of Life Treehouse
• Web services such as Instructional Architect
• Reviews (of books, movies, web sites, tv, other blogs, etc.)
• Interviews (mock or actual)
• Classified ads (that could demonstrate a student’s understanding of requirements for a particular STEM-related profession)
• Online newspaper/magazine
• Vlog component
• Contributions to a shared project such as The Birdhouse Network
• Data collection template