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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #140: Periodic Table Live!; New NSDL Pathways; ORE Released

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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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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #139: Teachers’ Domain New Editions; NSDL Annual Meeting Set to Launch; NSF’s NSDL Awards; New Engineering Pathway Web, and Science Literacy Maps

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Get Ready for Washington: NSDL Annual Meeting Updates
By Sarah Holsted The 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting is almost upon us. This update includes reflections on the planning process and an overview of the program.
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/
Annual Meeting 2008 Blog
Tune into NSDL Road Reports for up-to-the-minute blog posts about […]

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

 
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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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Whiteboard News Flash: NOW AVAILABLE: Production-Ready Fedora 3.0 Fits With the Web

Ithaca, NY Today Fedora Commons released version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software that completes all general release features. The NSDL Data Repository is powered by NCore technologies that utilize Fedora repository software. Dan Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, “We are pleased to offer a Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #137: Engineering Collections; Open Source Physics; Chemistry Moodle

New Collections in the Engineering Pathway
The Engineering Pathway has partnered with additional engineering education communities to add eight new collections and 2,457 new records now available at NSDL.org.
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Related Link: http://nsdl.org/browse/?subject=New
New Web-Based Collection of Open Source Physics Resources
The Open Source Physics (OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital library are […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #136: Instructional Architect, Higher Ed Critical Thinking, Scholarly Wiki, All Around a Molecule

Instructional Architect Helping to “Design the Digital Classroom”
The Research Office at Utah State UniDesIversity recently profiled the work of Mimi Recker and her Instructional Architect research group at Utah State University, funded by the NSF NSDL program.
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Related Link: http://research.usu.edu/researchmatters/htm/designing-the-digital-classroom

Improving Critical Thinking in Higher Education
Bob Panoff, Shodor’s executive director, presented […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #135: Shodor, Exploratorium, BioSciEd Net, Web Seminar

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, […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report Annual Meeting Preview~Special Issue: Alchemy of Collaboration; Annual Meeting by the Numbers; Overview

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This special issue of NSDL Whiteboard Report previews highlights of the 007 NSDL Annual Meeting: Advancing NSDL Networks to be held November 6-8, 2007. Contents include a message from NSDL Core Integration Director Kaye Howe, an overview of the meeting by Sarah Giersch, Chair of the 2007 Annual Meeting Planning Committee, and Bookmarks to meeting-related […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report 119: Web Semnars, Shodor Presentation, New Blog for Teachers, Reader Survey

NSDL Launches Second Year of Web Seminars with NSTA
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL2/webseminar.aspx
During the 2006-2007 school year, 11 free web seminars offered by the National Science Teachers Association and NSDL provided online professional development experiences for 588 teachers and informal educators. This year’s series begins on September 20 with an introduction to the FunWorks <http://thefunworks.org>, a digital resource […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report 118–”Fedora Commons” Gets Underway; Pathways Make Progress; Engineering Pathway On Bridge Design; Middle School Portal: Three Essential Cycles

Fedora Commons Awarded $4.9M for Start-up of Non-profit Organization to Develop Open Source Software for Collaborative Communities
http://www.fedora-commons.org
Ithaca, New York, August 13, 2007–Fedora Commons, today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, […]

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