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Chemistry Comes Alive III: Water—upcoming web seminar on December 9th, 6:30pm-8:00pm Eastern Time

This Web Seminar will focus on dynamic online resources you can use to teach your students about the chemistry of water through the NSDL Chemical Education Digital Library. Join presenters Dr. John Moore, W. T. Lippincott Professor and director of the Institute for Chemical Education, and Dr. Lynn Diener, Assistant Professor, […]

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Math and History Featured in NSDL Resources About Voting

As the nation goes to the polls on November 4, 2008 these resources from NSDL Pathways, which provide access to audience-specific views of appropriate NSDL resources and services, offer classroom information about how voting and polls work, insights into American election milestones, and a closer look at how the technology behind voting can affect history.

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Whiteboard and Slide-based Combination Classroom Presentation Tool Wins 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware

Each year NSDL’s NEEDS/Engineering Pathway digital libraries host The Premier Award competition. A wide range of submissions of high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education are encouraged. Recently the 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded to Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and members of the development team from […]

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The Periodic Table Live! from the Chemical Education Digital Library

“Periodic Table Live!” is a notable new resource from the Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL). Students and teachers especially are invited to interact with the periodic table, chose an element of interest, and learn all sorts of interesting information about that element–from details of its discovery, to its industrial uses and other characteristics. Users […]

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“Computational Thinking” Workshops Offered by Shodor Staff

Along with a series of six Project SUCCEED Saturday Explorations workshops beginning on October 18 in Durham, NC, Robert M. Panoff, Shodor Executive Director, and staff members will also offer parallel workshop sessions on “Computational Thinking–Sources and Resources for Quantitative Reasoning in Math and Science Education.” These workshops are being offered to math and science […]

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The NSDL Community at Its Best

Ending two and a half days of networking, sharing research results, project outcomes and swapping good stories, almost 200 NSDL partners and projects said goodbye and headed home from Washington D.C. on October 2 to continue building NSDL’s capacity as a national platform for cyberlearning. Presentations will be downloadable from the Annual Meeting Full Schedule […]

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