Archive for October, 2006

People and Projects at NSDL’s Annual Meeting

Check out Annual Meeting photos, and add your comments here here.
Add your thoughts on how education digital libraries might be sustained into the future to NSDL sustainability Annual Meeting panelists ideas. Kevin Guthrie is president of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of […]

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A deeper look at Global Warming; Need for speed in media development

This week NSDL’s blogosphere features a comment to the News Topic Center post: 2006 Heralded Record Loss of Ozone and Substantial Ice Shrinkage that questions the human role in global warming and climate change and suggests resources on the other side of “This historic debate (which) is a wonderful opportunity to give students an insight […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Science

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Publish NSDL Blog Discussions on Your Website!

The NSDL community is speaking of something interesting–and you are invited to share those educational discussions with your communities.
Blog discussions range from scientists who are sharing research tips that tie data collected by Citizen Scientists from all over the country to teaching and learning in “Bringing the Field to the Classroom–Birds”, to in-depth science, technology, […]

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NSDL Resources Illustrate Nobel Winners’ “Big Bang” Theory

The NSDL News Topic Center is a tool for teachers to use in tracking and sharing day-to-day changes in news stories with students and other educators. Check out NSDL resources that provide background information about the Nobel Prize in physics that was awarded on Oct. 3, 2006 to scientists John C. Mather, NASA Goddard Space […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Science

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“Nothing gets done down there until people make connections”

Educational technology systems are often designed by people in dry schools or offices with colleagues who have just had lunch. Brad Edmondson reports on why the notion of delivering high quality digital education opportunities to Gulf Coast schools where Dan Reed, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, described rigging up an on-the-fly wireless communications system that […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Social Studies, Technology

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