A couple of observations as the thousand flowers of online networks continue to bloom.
If there’s any doubt about the scope of the garden visit the “Cornell Info 204 - Networks” blog where Cornell Information Science students are sharing emerging ideas and research about how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the […]

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 […]

This week in NSDL’s blogosphere Professor Jon Kleinberg’s Cornell Information Science 204 gets underway. The blog is a companion to a course that will “cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections.” The first post displays a visualization of Jesus’ associates and […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]