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The Periodic Table Live! from the Chemical Education Digital Library
Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL).
Students and teachers especially are invited to interact with the
periodic table, chose an element of interest, and learn all sorts of
interesting information about that element–from details of its
discovery, to its industrial uses and other characteristics.
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Cyberlearning Updates, New NSDL Pathways
At their recent NSDL Annual Meeting National Science Digital Library
partners met in Washington, D.C. Sept. 30 - October 2, 2008 to unveil
new directions for the 8-yr-old NSF initiative designed to leverage
online educational STEM opportunities for students and learners of
all ages nationwide. Three new NSDL Pathways partners, that provide
access to audience-specific views of appropriate NSDL resources and
services, were introduced.
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The Future of Networked Information
Over the past two years the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, repository, and eScience communities to
develop standards for the identification and description of
aggregations of Web resources. Production versions of the OAI-ORE
specifications and implementation documents are now available to the
public, with a table of contents page here.
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E V E N T S

Upcoming NSDL Web Seminars: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bear Series, October 29th and November 13th
The next two free seminars in the NSDL series feature online
professional development programs for elementary educators, K-5.
These seminars will highlight resources from Beyond Penguins and
Polar Bears, a cyberzine that helps educators integrate science and
literacy with a focus on the polar regions.
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Related Link(s): http://tinyurl.com/6g5pur; http://tinyurl.com/6eknth

Tune in to the Honeywell Nobel Minds Laureate Lecture Series
Join students and teachers worldwide on October 27, 2008 at 10am CST
for a lecture by Professor Mario J. Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry. His lecture is part of the Honeywell Nobel Minds
Laureate Lecture series. The lecture will be given at Tecnologico de
Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. You can watch it LIVE at:
http://www.honeywellscience.com.
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B O O K M A R K S

Speak Up Survey
Join 319,223 students, 25,544 teachers, 19,726 parents and 3,263
administrators who have participated in Speak Up Day annual national
educational research surveys facilitated by Project Tomorrow. The
2008 survey closes December 19, 2008.
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“Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education” Blog Post
Steve Hargadon, Educational Technology Consultant and Entrepreneur,
writes about K-12 educational technology and topics related to the
future of education. He boils down the Web 2.0 to the simple idea
that it is “a two-way medium” as it applies to education in this
recent blog post.
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Speaking of Something Interesting: NSDL Blogosphere Highlights
There is always something interesting in NSDL’s blogs: National
Chemistry Week: What Works?; Evaluating Information, and Discovery of
the Structure of DNA.
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Gaming Company Seeks Input from Teachers
Ramo means “play” in Gujrati, and is the name of a new gaming company
Ramogames.com. This gaming site is targeted at kids and is founded by Sumir Meghani a Harvard Business School graduate and Yahoo! alum along with others who have experience with companies like Electronic Arts, Thomson Learning. Meghani is seeking input from teachers about what might be useful in classrooms in this survey.
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Time for the Sparky Awards, from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition)
The competition invites students to consider the issues and
creatively express their views around the 2008 contest theme
“MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing.” Submissions must be
received by November 30, 2008.
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I N S P I R A T I O N

National Student/Parent Mock Election; October 30
The National Student/Parent Mock Election seeks to turn the sense of
powerlessness that keeps young Americans and their parents from going
to the polls into a sense of the power of participation in our
democracy.
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