Cheryl Lemke, CEO and President of Metiri Group, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing technology in schools presented to a full house of educators, technology coordinators and other educational technology professionals at this week’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC) held in San Antonio, Texas. In her session, The Ripple Effect: 21st […]

SLA June 15-18, 2008
Seattle, Washington
As usual, my activities were mainly with the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division of SLA. I gave a brief report about the meeting “Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward” at which I gave a poster presentation on information fluency at the PAM-wide roundtable discussion. I gave a two hour poster presentation on […]

One strategy for classifying the millions of galaxies mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was to open the Galaxy Zoo, invite the public to look at the new creatures, and give them tools to record their observations.
When Alex Szalay is not considering improved strategies for managing and sharing big data, and how that […]

Dr. Judy Willis is a neuroscientist who also happens to be a middle school algebra teacher. After years in the lab, Dr. Willis decided to apply her knowledge on brain research to the classroom. At the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference in New Orleans, Dr. Willis was a […]

Sarah Giersch’s photos from the poster session of the 2007 Annual Meeting can be found here. Above, Kim Lightle of Middle School Pathway whoops it up with Susan Van Gundy of NSDL Core Integration.

Bob Peck Chevrolet building, Ballston, VA
There isn’t much that’s distinctive about Arlington, VA. The rooms and snacks at NSDL’s conference hotel, the Westin, were great - they were just as good as in any Westin anywhere - but that’s the point. Arlington is anywhere and nowhere. Except for the building across the […]

Witnessing NSDL Annual Meetings over the years, I’ve seen a natural transition in the themes and topics that bubble to the surface. In the early days, a lot of conversation formed around the nuts and bolts of metadata standards, repository architectures and how best to search in a distributed environment. Now, the themes have moved […]

(l-r) Panelists Sherry Hsi, Rob Rothfarb, Mick Khoo, and Mimi Recker
Why do people come to your website? What do they do there, and what could you be doing better? The 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting panel “Beyond Webmetrics” showed how to seek answers to those questions by gathering user data from a variety of […]

In the preface to the Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn 2007, held in Quebec City), Conference Co-Chairs Theo J. Bastiaens, of the Open University of the Netherlands, and Saul Carliner, of Concordia University, Canada, observed: “Satisfying e-learners with the experience of e-learning— in addition […]

Michael Sirois’ photos of the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing are posted here.