(L-R) GameCATS: Michael Eagle, Lane Harrison, Eve Powell
Eve Powell has loved computer gaming as long as she can remember, and she knew long ago that she wanted to learn computer game design in college. There weren’t many opportunities for game enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte (UNCC) when she arrived, so Powell […]

Sarah Giersch of NSDL Core Integration attended this meeting with Andrew Walker and Deonne Johnson of Utah State University. We represented Digital Libraries go to School (DLgtS), a three-year project which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2006 (ESI #0554440) to develop a professional development workshop curriculum that enables in- and pre-service […]

Miss Honey Bee, aka Beautrice Lennartz (1904-1998), was a beloved Boulder music teacher who lunched often in the Boulderado Hotel. Her life-sized portrait hangs near the top of the hotel’s five-story grand stairway, which connects the 160 rooms in the 1909 building to an opulent lobby with a stained glass skylight for a roof.
Miss […]

Tamara Sumner describes the Strand Maps service while NSDL co-PIs (l-r) Kaye Howe, Dean Krafft, and Kate Wittenberg listen. Over 50 of NSDL’s leaders met in Boulder this week.
NSDL’s Pathways partners gathered in Boulder, CO on August 1 and 2 to share stories and trade good ideas. NSDL’s Core Integration staff joined staff […]

Please excuse this diversion — the following post doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve seen recently at conferences — but the post “Shrek Gets Fired” (May 23, below) opens a can of worms, and I can’t resist. In a free society where delicious food is cheap, plentiful, and heavily advertised, how should we […]

Social networking tools and software were prime subjects at this years’ Western Regional Educause. Here is a short list of sites that people were talking about in their presentations. Some of them I had heard of, some of them not, but all of them were fun to check out and to ponder their […]

This interesting image recognizer is being developed by James Wang at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. You can either upload your own image, or give it an image URL. It analyzes the content of the file, and not the file name.
It seemed to work okay at the demo. […]

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive gave a great keynote talk at Museums and the Web in San Francisco. He’s completely convinced that the technological issues of archiving everything - texts, images, audio, video, software, etc. - and archiving them forever, are ‘doable.’ The main barriers to doing this are (yup) lack of social, legal, […]

William R. Thomas, Director of Educational Technology for the Southern Regional Educational Board and Susan Van Gundy, NSDL Education and Outreach Director talk with invited guests.

About 25 teachers, school and program administrators, and partners began day two at the National Science Teachers annual convention at the very early hour of 7:30 a.m. to learn more […]