Carol Minton Morris, Ben O’Steen, and David Flanders In a call to “keep it real” the 1977 Doobie Brothers’ hit song “Takin it to the Streets” contains the words, “You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me; I aint blind and I dont like what I think I see.” Developer Happiness Days (DEV8D) […]

Ithaca, NY Workflows are a repeatable sequence of operations that achieve an outcome. A scientific workflow is unique among other types of workflows because it specifically represents a graphical model of data flow among processing steps. The Kepler Project provides an open source scientific workflow tool that allows users to author and execute scientific workflows.

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The ComPADRE web site (http://www.compadre.org/portal/) provides access to a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy.
From Pat (Viele) the Science Librarian (Pat’s Picks for STEM Educators) The fall meeting of the NYS Section of the American Physical Society was held on on November 14th and 15th. […]

This year’s Annual Meeting with the theme “STEM Research and Education in Action” will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. from September 30 - October 2, 2008.
The schedule includes presentations and overviews from NSDL Pathways and partners who are implementing NSDL resources and tools for K12 and undergraduate classrooms nationwide. Stay tuned to this […]

“Invisibility. Teleportation. Mind reading. Psychokinesis. Time travel. Star ships. Parallel universes. Normally, these would be dismissed by scientists as being impossible. One hundred years ago, the same was thought about lasers, televisions and visiting outer space.” This is the first sentence of Michio Kaku’s abstract from his presentation to AAPT entitled, “Physics of the […]

Los Angeles is a town where reality is a reinvented on a daily basis. Even so the exhibits, talks and media presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 pushed the limits of perceived reality with a provocative theme exhorting participants to “Evolve.” However the almost 30,000 graphics and robotics researchers, entertainment industry representatives, educators, programmers, artists and students […]

I had the opportunity in late April to take part in a workshop for 22 educators, led by Bob Panoff, Director of NSDL’s Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) portal and Pathway project, developed by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Graciously hosted by Burroughs Wellcome Fund at their beautiful and beautifully situated offices […]