» Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #138: Teachers’ Domain New Editions; Streamlined Beyond Penguins; NSDL’s Fall Web Seminars and; Quasi the Robot

Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #138: Teachers’ Domain New Editions; Streamlined Beyond Penguins; NSDL’s Fall Web Seminars and; Quasi the Robot

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 11:06 am

Written by: Carol Minton Morris

N E W S

Keeping a Digital Promise

On Thursday, July 31, 2008, Digital Promise, a fund to keep America competitive in this digital century by transforming education, workforce training, and lifelong learning, was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

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New Features, Functionalities, and Fun Stuff from the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Project

You can now Browse Columns, and access the Archive.

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New Additions to the MicrobeLibrary

The American Society for Microbiology’s MicrobeLibrary continues to grow. Recent additions include a new issue of Focus on Microbiology Education(FOME) newsmagazine featuring over 30 reviews of educational materials including textbooks, websites, and electronic materials.

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Related Link: http://www.microbelibrary.org

NSDL Pathways at NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Meeting

Principal Investigators from the NSF CCLI program met at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, from August 13-15, 2008. The meeting was hosted by AAAS.

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Teachers’ Domain Pathways to Digital Media for Education Launch New Editions!

Selected STEM media resources from Teachers’ Domain collections will be catalogued according to topics and commonly taught courses in Astonomy, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Health Science, and Physics.

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Related Link: http://www.teachersdomain.org

Summer Travel Review in Expert Voices Road Reports

Reports from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT); RepoCamp at the Library of Congress plus a view from SIGGRAPH 2008 in LA are all available on NSDL Road Reports.

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Now Available: Production-Ready Fedora 3.0 Fits With the Web

Fedora Commons released version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software that completes all general release features on July 30, 2008. Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, “We are pleased to offer a Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational step towards a model-driven content architecture.”

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E V E N T S

NSDL Launches Third Series of Web Seminars This Fall

NSDL Web Seminars 2008-2009 Series begins September 25, 2008. NSDL has partnered for it’s third year with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) as a part of their online professional development programs. These free, 90-minute seminars allow educators to interact with experts in the NSDL community from a desktop.

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NSDL Annual Meeting Details for Presenters-Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.

Make final changes to presentations, submit posters, contact information and other details.

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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org

Free Webinar: Find Out Why Online Learning is One of the Top Five Tech Trends in Education

Will your students and educators benefit from this trend or be left out? Join Net Day Project Tomorrow on Wednesday, Sept 17th for a free webinar where we will share the updated online learning trends from Speak Up 2007 and our report ”Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends Update.“

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Free Workshops for Education and Outreach Professionals

NSF is sponsoring three workshops for education and outreach professionals and NSF Research Centers Educators’ Network (NRCEN) members. The purpose of the workshops is to build the community of participants using and contributing to the NEO-Sphere.org web site by offering an introduction to the resources on the site and guided instruction in adding and accessing these resources.

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B O O K M A R K S

Participatory Learning Competition

The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is participatory learning. Awards will be made in two categories.

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Related Link: http://www.dmlcompetition.net

Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends Update

The report Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends Update highlights the results of the most recent Speak Up online survey (fall 2007), in which Project Tomorrow probed deeper on this important national topic.

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I N S P I R A T I O N

Quasi the Robot

Quasi the Robot (2.0) is a friendly animatronic figure capable of fascinating conversation, remembering if she/he has met you before, getting embarrassed and communicating other subtle characteristics of emotion, speech and human behavior.

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