The presenters in the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series are a lucky bunch. They get paid to do what they love. In the blog Careers in Science, these scientists share their stories about what turned them on to scientific inquiry, what their training was like, and how they found the job of their dreams. The […]

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 […]

This year seems to be about open source software development, access, courseware, repositories, content, with all of it being open to interpretation and re-interpretation at all times. What does the concept of “open” mean as more and more organizations move towards collaborative rather than a competitive models?
This week’s NSDL Whiteboard Report Talkback reports on a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Where do the questions that lead to knowledge acquisition and application get asked and discussed online? Or do they? Do these questions come up outside of mediated educational contexts? Why?
These are just a few of the questions that Expert Voices developers have. There are missing pieces in the Expert Voices practical and social equation for […]

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 […]

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. […]