NEWS

Beta Version of MAISON Accessible StrandMap Search Now Available
A beta version of MAISON has been released. MAISON’s goal is to improve participation to NSF’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) by teachers, librarians, and learners who are blind. MAISON is enhancing the accessibility of NSDL, its internal and external resources and existing services (such as strand maps of educational benchmarks).Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17703
Related Link: MAISON

Clarkson University Engineers Win 2009 Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering
“Energy Systems and Solutions” is the winner of the inaugural Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering and is now part of the TeachEngineering digital library collection. The unit is a suite of eighth-grade lessons and activities that provide a comprehensive, practical, and engaging investigation into energy and how it is used - presented from a real-world, applied engineering point of view. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17682
Related Link: Engineering Pathway

NSDL at the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting
ComPADRE, NSDL’s Physics and Astromomy Pathway and CSERD, NSDL’s Computational Science Pathway were featured in presentations and workshops throughout the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting.Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17684
Related Link: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting

Resources to help you utilize the Periodic Table Live! (PTL!)
The Chemical Education Digital Library has another new resource. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17709
Related Link: ChemEd Courses

Optical or Invisibility Cloak Resource from the Engineering Pathway
Ever wish you had an “invisibility cloak”? Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17710
Related Link: SINAM

NSDL Interactivate at Notre Dame
Dr. Bob Panoff of the Shodor Education Foundation presented two workshops on NSDL resources in support of computational thinking at the University of Notre Dame last month to a total of over 50 K-12 teachers and half a dozen students.Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17686
Related Link: Michiana STEM Interactivate Computational Science resources for mathematics learning

Dynamic Simulation and Agent Modeling Physics Workshop
One-day introduction to dynamic simulation and agent modeling, featuring NSDL, Interactivate tools, Excel and Agent Sheets. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17688

Report from the ChemEd DL Workshops
ChemEd DL webinars and workshops held this summer included: Periodic Table Live!, Molecules 360, ChemEd courses, ChemPRIME and ChemPaths Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17711
Related Link: ChemEd DL meeting archive

CALL: Participate in the NSDL 2009 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting Planning Committee is soliciting proposals for presentations at the 2009 NSDL Annual Meeting, November 17-19 in Washington, D.C. Proposals are welcomed from both the NSDL community and from individuals and groups not directly affiliated with an NSDL-funded project. Proposals will be due by midnight of August 28. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17690
Related Link: NSDL Community Blog

EVENTS

MSP2 Summer Tech Talk
Join an MSP2 Summer Tech Talk to get the answers about digital tools for teaching and learning that other people already seem to have! Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17694
Related Link: MSP2 Summer Tech Talk

Announcing the 4th NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series
Free online teacher professional development seminars this fall: Chemistry Comes Alive IV: Oxidation and Reduction, Timely Teachings: Seasons and the Cycles of Night and Day, along with seminars from PBS favorites WGBH Teachers’ Domain and Dragonfly TV. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17695
Related Link: NSTA Web Seminars

BOOKMARKS

Energy Systems and Solutions curricula unit
View the 2009 Winner Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering eighth-grade Energy Systems and Solutions curricula unit. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17697
Related Link: Teach Engineering Curricular Unit: Energy Systems and Solutions

Engineering Pathway Events in History Blog
Did you know that the Engineering Pathway posts “Events in History” for every day of the year? Many of these engineering-related historic events have accompanying blogs we have posted that can be used to enhance your curriculum by connecting new technologies with their historical roots. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17708
Related Link: Today in History blog

Keep Up With NSDL on Twitter
Find out the latest news about NSDL web seminars, events and technology developments by following NSDL on Twitter Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17699
Related Link: http://twitter.com/NSDL

INSPIRATION

QuarkNet
QuarkNet is a hybrid virtual and face-to-face network where teachers, students, parents and physicists interact with one another to “explore the hidden nature of matter, energy, space and time.” Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17701
Related Link: QuarkNet