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 […]

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, […]

The Middle School Portal, an NSDL Pathway portal for math and science teachers, has added a free, easy-to-use registration feature to its web site. Teachers can sign up for instant notification as new publications “go live.” Teachers are invited to register for announcements of all new publications or just for those in their field – […]

Teachers’ Domain Launches Open Educational Resources
On June 1, 2007 Teachers’ Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org announced the launch of Open Educational Resources–video segments, interactive activities, and lesson plans in earth science, engineering, life science, and physical science that are downloadable, sharable, and re-mixable. Whether you download them to your own computer, share them with your students and […]

The Journal of Chemical Education’s Software video collection, Chemistry Comes Alive! from the NSDL Chemistry Pathway has won the Pirelli Internetional Award in Chemistry.
The Pirelli Internetional Award is “The first international multimedia competition for the communication of Science and Technology, entirely carried out on the Internet (since 1996).” Prizes in physics, chemistry, mathematics and life […]

Exploratorium Sees Geographic Diversity in Use of NSDL Learning Resources Collection
The Exploratorium’s Learning Resources Collection, selected from interactive museum exhibits, demonstrations, hands-on science activities, museum magazine articles, Exploratorium web sites, the Children’s Education Outreach program, the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, and the Institute for Inquiry, was originally funded by an NSF NSDL Collections grant. Before the […]

Double International Web Honors for Shodor
http://cserd.nsdl.org
The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, has recognized Shodor, a Durham based non profit organization that helps improve math and science education for students locally and nationally. Shodor was recognized in two categories as an Official Honoree, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement.
In the […]

Zero in on Comprehension Using the NSDL Concept Map Tool
Teachers work to connect broad learning concepts, standards and educational resources in K12 classrooms to ensure that their students’ progress is both developmentally sound and measurable. Until now there has not been an easy way to find and present students with the right online information at […]

New in the Library: MIT Opencourseware Materials
In November of 2005, at the Fourth Annual NSDL Meeting in Denver, Brandon Muramatsu Associate Director, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) at Utah State University, observed that “Opencourseware repositories represent a large, untapped source of high-quality digital learning resources for NSDL. Repositories, such as MIT OpenCourseWare or […]

NEW NSDL 2006 Annual Report

The National Science Digital Library’s 2006 Annual Report was released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting earlier this month. The report highlights the multiple roles that NSDL plays in support of STEM education that include providing a resource repository, services, tools and activities for teacher professional […]