What Happened at the Annual Meeting?
NSDL’s Annual Meeting last week attracted 200 passionate digital omnivores who learned about 117 projects by viewing 59 posters and attending 34 sessions in less than two days in Arlington, VA. Remnants from that intellectual explosion can be viewed at the meeting’s home page, which contains the program, abstracts of […]

Can Cockatoos Really Dance?

Snowball the Cockatoo stomps and shakes his feathers to a song by the Back Street Boys in a video on YouTube. He has done it more than one million times since the clip went up last month. But is Snowball responding to the music, or to its […]

Shodor Honored by Cisco and ALA
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Shodor Inc., the NSDL Pathways partner for computational science, has been awarded the grand prize for nonprofit organizations in Cisco Inc.’s annual Growing with Technology Awards. “We’re honored to receive this national distinction for our work,” said Dr. Robert Panoff, president and executive director. “We started in 1995 with […]

New Pathways Partner for Informal Learning
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The National Science Foundation has announced a grant that will establish a new NSDL Pathways partner. The Science and Math Informal Learning Educators (SMILE) Pathway is focused on “rich, inquiry-driven learning experiences developed outside of the formal K-12 education system,” says principal investigator Darrell Porcello. He is the Creative Director […]

Whiteboard Reader Survey Complete Results
Whiteboard Report is an e-mail newsletter with items of interest to the NSDL Community.  It is sent once every two weeks to 900 members of the “NSDL-all” e-mail listserv and 715 members of the “Whiteboard Subscribers” list. It is also posted on the following lists: “Friends of Whiteboard,” “Pathways PIs”, and […]

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Kimberly Lightle, Principal Investigator for the Middle School Pathway developed by The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation International Polar Year (IPY) Program (DRL-0733024) to collaborate with teams from Ohio State University, National Science Digital Library Core […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The New NSDL Data Repository
The NSDL Data Repository (NDR) was released into production on January 18, 2007. This benchmark achievement was made possible by a team of NSDL and Fedora developers and programmers who worked together to characterize an NSDL 2.0 repository that would enable management of an emerging user-created dynamic web of context. A […]