Shodor Receives Statewide Partnership Award
When it comes to partnering with other organizations to improve math and science education, there’s one North Carolina non profit organization that stands out: Shodor.
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Related Link: http://www.shodor.org/cyberpathways/

From the Exploratorium: Digital Library Afterschool Website Launches!
Through a collaboration with the California School-age Consortium and their trainee network, Exploratorium outreach specialists are sharing NSDL materials and resources from the website with afterschool leaders and frontline staff across California.
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Related Link: http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/

From BioSciEd Net (BEN): Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education focuses on Genomes and Online Learning Outcomes
A new volume of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (JMBE) has been published in the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) MicrobeLibrary.
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Related Link: http://www.microbelibrary.org

Streamlined and Eye-catching New Look for Chem Ed Digital Library
The Chemical Education Digital Library has a new look. All of the original content is there plus new content has been added, and appearance and functionality have been improved.
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Related Link: http://chemeddl.org/

Shodor Director Bob Panoff Delivers Keynote in Rome
A keynote address was given on Mar. 18, 2008 by Dr. Robert M. Panoff, founder and director of the Shodor Education Foundation in Durham, NC, as part of the UNIV 2008 Forum in Rome.
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Related Link: http://www.shodor.org

Connecting People, Places, Ideas and Passion in NSDL’s Blogosphere
The final lecture to Networks 204 that has generated over 600 blog posts in Expert Voices capped the three-year teaching and research initiative with a lecture entitled, “Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks.”
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Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/

Try an Interactive Fossil Sort from Content Clips
The interactive fossil sort, used as part of an assessment probe activity and the electronic storybooks in the April 2008 issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears magazine, illustrate how teachers can use Content Clips to create their own classroom interactives. Note that Content Clips requires Adobe Flash.
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Guidelines for Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access Requirements
In a preprint article published online by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Duke University Scholarly Communications Officer Kevin L. Smith offers pragmatic strategies that authors and their institutions can use to manage authors’ copyrights to fulfill the requirements of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy.
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Related Link: http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br258.shtml

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Get Online for a Free Polar Geography Lesson from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Magazine
Join experts from Ohio State University: Jessica Fries-Gaither, Elementary Resource Specialist and Beyond Penguins Project Director, and Carol Landis, Education Outreach Specialist at the Byrd Polar Research Center as they examine the unique and dramatically different areas of Arctic and Antarctic regions through the lens of geography.
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Related Link: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx

Mark Your Calendars for the 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting
The 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting will be held from September 30 to October 2, 2008 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The theme for this year’s meeting is “STEM Research and Education in Action.”
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org

Tune in to CONFCHEM, a Virtual Chemistry Conference
From April 22 until May 18, 2008 “CONFCHEM”, a virtual conference, is taking place using email and a listserv. The CONFCHEM schedule consists of a series of eight paper presentations focused on “Chemistry at the National Science Digital Library.”
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Related Link: http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2008/b/index.htm

SAVE on Early Registration for the Fedora Red Island Repository Institute
Register by May 16 and reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its sandy beaches, golfing, seafood and iconic red dirt roads.
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Related Link: http://vre.upei.ca/riri