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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Two online events will be revving up the NSDL blogosphere in the next few days.
Stay tuned TODAY for blog converstations highlighting the second NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar entitled,”Bringing the Field to the Classroom–Birds.” Today’s event features experts from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. There is still time to register for the free event scheduled for […]

The National Science Digital Library network of projects and organizations has been collectively thinking about how to present online library resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research for some time. As with so many things in life, you just never know when a harmonic convergence of circumstance and events may overtake you. […]

In the wikipedia entry explaining commonly-used software release terms there is a clear path from pre-alpha (designers are still determining exactly what functionalities the product should have), to alpha (demonstrates the feasibility and basic structure of the software), to beta (represents the first version of a computer program that implements all features in the initial […]

Adjusting the user interface to give users a view of what’s going on in a blogosphere is what we’ve been thinking about in the last few weeks.What sorts of data are automatically generated as entries are added or commented on? Are those data useful in “seeing” NSDL’s blogs change over time? The short answer is […]