Greetings from New Orleans! We have several sessions at the NSTA Science Education Conference and will be posting the presentations on the blog. Come on over while you enjoy the Big Easy!

Friday, March 20

8:00 – 9:00 AM Informal Science Day Session: Content on the Go: Science
Education Podcasting – Susan Foster (NCAR); Howard Lurie
(WGBH); Robert Payo (NSDL); Sherry Hsi (Exploratorium)
(NO Marriott, Carondelet)

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NSDL booth – NSTA Exhibit Hall - Booth 1532
New Orleans Convention Center.

10:00 AM – 12:00 (MSP)2 – NSDL Middle School Portal Math and Science Pathways
Focus Group – Kim Lightle

2:00 – 3:00 PM The Good, the Bad, and the Hydrophobic: Proteins and the Cell
- Lynn Diener, ChemEd DL; Robert Payo, NSDL Resource
Center (JW Marriott; Il de France II)

2:00 – 3:00 PM Informal Science Day Session: Web 2.0 for Science: Examples
of Participatory Tools for Science Learning; Kim Lightle, MSP2;
Chad Dorsey, Maine Math and Science Alliance
(JW Marriott; Carondelet)

3:30 – 4:30 PM ASTE: Science Literacy Maps, Search Strategies, and Teacher Reviewed Content- Robert Payo, NSDL
(JW Marriott; Il de France II)

4:00 – 6:00 PM Informal Science Shareathon
(JW Marriott; Il De France)

Saturday, March 21

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NSDL booth – NSTA Exhibit Hall - Booth 1532
New Orleans Convention Center.

9:00 – 11:00 AM Polar Shareathon, Kim Lightle, Ohio State University
(NO Marriott, Carondelet)

10:00 – 12:00 PM Climate Literacy meeting – Susan Van Gundy, Robert Payo
(Sheraton NO, Salon 828)

5:00 – 6:00 PM Digital Libraries and 21st Century Skills – Robert Payo, NSDL
Resource Center
(JW Marriott; Il de France III)

5:00 – 6:00 PM Energy and the Polar Environment – Kim Lightle, Ohio State
University

Sunday, March 22

11 AM – 12:00 PM Using Technology to Support Elementary Readers – Kim Lightle,
Ohio State University; Lois MacLean, MacLean Media - Content
Clips project