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“We Will Restore Science to its Rightful Place… Transform Schools, Colleges and Universities”
On January 11, 2009 the National Science Board (NSB) issued “National Science Board STEM Education Recommendations for the President-Elect Obama Administration,” and sent them to Obama’s Transition Team. President Obama’s inaugural address reflected not only the concerns of the NSB, but included those of the entire nation.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00
Related Link: http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2009/01_10_stem_rec_obama.pdf

WGBH Teachers’ Domain On iTunes
Teachers’ Domain has added new life science, earth and space science, physical science, and engineering tracks as free downloads. Resources available for download include videos and educator guides with discussion.
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Related Link: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org

Foreign Language Versions of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Now Available
A visit to the January 2009 issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears features a new “Change Language” option allowing users to choose to read the magazine in languages including French, Spanish, German and others.
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Related Link: http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/

NSF Science Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) Workshop
While students were busy during exam week in December, a three-day workshop At Washington & Lee University on computational science education and interactive computing resources from NSDL enabled about a dozen undergraduate math and science faculty to explore new modes of teaching and learning. During this same period, Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) and NSDL were featured resources along with the new High Performance Computing University HPCU) portal, at the e-Science Conference in Indianapolis.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03
Related Link: http://cserd.nsdl.org

One-stop Engineering Education News Service
The Engineering Pathway (EP) has launched an Engineering and Computing Education news service–a continuous feed of user-submitted items, featured on the EP homepage, parsed by discipline and displayed on EP disciplinary community pages. Learn more about personalized news and other services offered by the Engineering Pathway.
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Related Link: http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/util/news_event/news_event_list.jhtml

E V E N T S

Media Literacy in the 21st Century
On Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ET NSDL/NSTA Web Seminars will show participants how to access classroom-ready resources from public television. This interactive presentation from WGBH’s Teachers’ Domain will show educators of grades 5-12 how to integrate media literacy into earth and space science curriculum while introducing free media resources from Teachers’ Domain.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_15
Related Link: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx

NSDL at AAAS, Feb 13-15, Chicago
Representatives from NSDL Pathways and Projects will feature resources and address current trends and best practices related to teacher professional development and undergraduate student preparation during workshop sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting.
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Related Link: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/

USA TODAY Education and NASA Host STEM Career Exploration Webinars
Demonstrations of USA Today’s career exploration web site, developed in collaboration with NASA, will be held online February 5, 9, and 13. Please RSVP if interested in participating.
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Related Link: http://www.usatoday.com/educate/homesplash.htm

DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC Present All About Repositories Webinar Series
Beginning on February 18 DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) will offer a free About Repositories Webinar Series to provide professional learning opportunities for repository managers, developers, curators and decision makers. The series will be web cast and will also be made available through DSpace, Fedora, Sun and SPARC web sites.
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Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2009/01/20/dspace-foundation-fedora-commons-sun-microsystems-and-sparc-present-all-about-repositories-webinar-series/

B O O K M A R K S

NSF NSDL (National STEM Education Distributed Learning) Solicitation
The NSDL program aims to establish a national network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. Projects that explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network, which were submitted as Targeted Research under previous solicitations, should now be submitted as small grants to the Services section of the program. The proposal deadline date is April 15, 2009.
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Related link: http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09531

2009 NSF/AAAS Visualization Challenge. You See it All
The 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge is co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Winning entries will be published in a special section of the February 19, 2010 issue of the journal Science and Science Online and on NSF’s website. One winning entry will appear on the front cover of Science.
For more information, see: http://www.nsf.gov/news/scivis
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Related link: http://www.crabtreecompany.com/y_creative/NSF/09105AAS_Call-for-Entries.htm

“Classroom Information Needs,” D-Lib Magazine
Author Marcia Mardis, Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University, reports on a search analysis from a digital library for educators on search string logs from 2004-2006 from Michigan Teacher Network in the January/February issue of Dlib Magazine.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211
Related Link: http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/mardis/01mardis.html

“Documenting the Value of Education”
In this blog post Chemistry Professor John W. Moore, University of Wisconsin, and Editor of the Journal of Chemical Education examines the strong arguments Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz offer in their book The Race between Education and Technology,and agrees “that changes in policies are needed if the American educational system is to catch up with technological change and again make major contributions to our economic future.”
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/01/13/documenting-the-value-of-education-february-2009/

NEW: Shodor InterACTIONS Newsletter
Shodor (http://www.shodor.org/) has launched a quarterly newsletter aimed at keeping a growing audience of students and teachers informed about the latest improvements and additions to Shodor’s computational science programs and activities. The newsletter is available as a downloadable PDF file and via email.
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Related Link: http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=CSERD

MATHwire: Information for Mathematics Users
MATHwire, is a monthly newsletter published by Wolfram Research (http://www.wolfram.com/) featuring information about Mathematica and other Wolfram Research products as well as related events from the Mathematica Learning Center.
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Related Link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2003-October/002382.html

I N S P I R A T I O N

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is This Month’s Featured Collection in Dlib Magazine
Jessica Fries-Gather, Editor of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears and Elementary Resource Specialist, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University provided readers of the January/February issue of D-Lib Magazine with an in-depth look at Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an online professional development magazine for elementary teachers focused on preparing teachers to teach polar science concepts in an already congested curriculum.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_315
Related Link: http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/01featured-collection.html