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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
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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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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 […]

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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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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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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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 […]

Fedora Commons Awarded $4.9M for Start-up of Non-profit Organization to Develop Open Source Software for Collaborative Communities
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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, […]

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 […]

ComPADRE Offers Physicists for “Adoption” by High School Classes
Why did you become a physicist?
Do you enjoy mac and cheese?
How does particle physics contribute to advances in the United States?
This is a small sample of questions that high school students asked physicists in the new Adopt-a-Physicist program, hosted by NSDL Physics and Astronomy Pathway comPADRE, and […]