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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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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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Annual Meeting 2008 Blog
Tune into NSDL Road Reports for up-to-the-minute blog posts about […]

 
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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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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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New Web-Based Collection of Open Source Physics Resources
The Open Source Physics (OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital library are […]

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 […]

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, […]

Welcome!
http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org/
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 […]

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 […]