This week NSDL’s blogosphere reflects on the National Science Teacher’s Association (NSTA) annual convention in St. Louis in NSDL Road Reports, and muses about whether giant snowflakes really exist as spring makes a hopeful appearance in many parts of the nation.
The teachers who come to NSTA are no different from other professional conference attendees in […]

Following the successful NSDL/NSTA web seminar about Electrostatics on January 30, teachers and experts have been discussing how this topic is presented in classrooms. All 83 comments contain impressions about how the information might be used in classrooms as well as feedback for how future online events might be improved. The next free web seminar […]

The MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning recently highlighted the topic of Civic Engagement. Editor Lance Bennett introduced the topic on Dec. 4: “What may be most important for politicians, educators, and young people, themselves, is to learn how to use digital media technologies to build civic and political communities that enable young […]

The Pew Internet and American Life Project and the Exploratorium, a San Francisco-based science museum formed a partnership last year to find out how Americans get science news and information with support from the National Science Foundation. The report from a national survey was released on November 20, 2006. Findings were that fully 87% of […]

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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 […]

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 […]