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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #149: From Whiteboard to Dashboard; Introducing the NSDL CLEAN Pathway; 2009 Annual Meeting Update and Registration; Conferences that Make a World of Difference

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From Whiteboard to ‘Dashboard’
This current issue of NSDL Whiteboard Report, will be the final issue. Check out the new NSDL Community Network site and contribute your news announcements via the Community News feature.
Click here to view full article:http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=149#17806
Related Link:NSDL Community Network site
New Look for K12 Audience Pages at NSDL.org
The K-12 audience pages have […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #148: MAISON Accessible StrandMap Search; Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering; Invisibility Cloak Resource; NSDL 2009 Annual Meeting;

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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 […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #147: Interoperable K12 Learning Standards; Disease Epidemic Model; African American History Web site; Open Repositories 2009;

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Towards Interoperable K12 Learning Standards
Teachers will gain greater precision in identifying appropriate materials for their students and schools can more systematically track student progression.
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Related Link: JES and Co.
Shodor in the News
Shodor has recently released a new Web-based interactive educational tool called “Disease Epidemic Model” and has […]

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Add Your Comments to Whiteboard Report #146: reviews of science trade books; NSF Special Reports; Deep Sea Podcast; Premier Award; Physiological Limits of Exploring Mars; President Obama at the National Academy of Sciences 146th Annual Meeting;

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NSTA-CBC Reviews of Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 Students
The NSDL Resource Center has made the 2009 list of “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12″ available with links to NSTA-CBC reviews and alignments to relevant National Science Content Standards.Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17146
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/imprint/nsta-outstanding-trade-books-2009/
Shodor to Help Lead the Way For the […]

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