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Issue 138  Aug. 27, 2008

N E W S

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.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00
Related Link: http://www.digitalpromise.org/newsite/

New Features, Functionalities, and Fun Stuff from the Beyond Penguins 
and Polar Bears Project
You can now <http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/browse/index.php>Browse 
Columns, and access the 
<http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/information.php?topic=archive>Archive.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01
Related Link: http://www.beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

New Additions to the MicrobeLibrary
The American Society for Microbiology's MicrobeLibrary continues to 
grow. Recent additions include a new issue of Focus on Microbiology 
Education (FOME) newsmagazine featuring over 30 reviews of 
educational materials including textbooks, websites, and electronic 
materials.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02
Related Link: http://www.microbelibrary.org

NSDL Pathways at NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement 
(CCLI) Meeting
Principal Investigators from the NSF CCLI program met at the 
Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, from August 13-15, 2008. The 
meeting was hosted by AAAS.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03
Related Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741

Teachers' Domain Pathways to Digital Media for Education Launch New Editions!
Selected STEM media resources from Teachers' Domain collections will 
be catalogued according to topics and commonly taught courses in 
Astonomy, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Health 
Science, and Physics.
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<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04
Related Link: http://www.teachersdomain.org

Summer Travel Review in Expert Voices Road Reports
Reports from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT); 
RepoCamp at the Library of Congress plus a view from SIGGRAPH 2008 in 
LA are all available on NSDL Road Reports.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_05
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/

Now Available: Production-Ready Fedora 3.0 Fits With the Web
Fedora Commons released version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software 
that completes all general release features on July 30, 2008. Dan 
Davis, Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, "We are 
pleased to offer a Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational step towards a 
model-driven content architecture."
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_06
Related Link: http://www.fedora-commons.org/developers/

E V E N T S

NSDL Launches Third Series of Web Seminars This Fall
NSDL Web Seminars 2008-2009 Series begins September 25, 2008. NSDL 
has partnered for it's third year with the National Science Teachers 
Association (NSTA) as a part of their online professional development 
programs. These free, 90-minute seminars allow educators to interact 
with experts in the NSDL community from a desktop.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17
Related Link: 
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/webseminar.asp

Last Minute NSDL Annual Meeting Details for Presenters-Sept. 30-Oct. 
2 in Washington, D.C.
Make final changes to presentations, submit posters, contact 
information and other details.
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http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18
Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org

Free Webinar: Find Out Why Online Learning is One of the Top Five 
Tech Trends in Education
Will your students and educators benefit from this trend or be left 
out? Join Net Day Project Tomorrow on Wednesday, Sept 17th for a free 
webinar where we will share the updated online learning trends from 
Speak Up 2007 and our report "Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends 
Update."
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_19
Related Link: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/learning21Report_Update.html

TODAY: Scientific Visualization using Tecplot from the San Diego 
Supercomputer Center
At the San Diego Supercomputer Center visualization techniques are 
applied to a variety of interesting scientific domains. Remote 
participants can join and interact by using a web browser for viewing 
and a telephone for audio for this lecture scheduled for Aug. 27 from 
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (PT) where three case studies of how HPC resources 
were utilized to create visualizations in Seismic Research, 
Astrophysics, and Cellular Imaging will be presented.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_110
Related Link: http://www.sdsc.edu/us/training/workshops.php?status=upcoming

Free Workshops for Education and Outreach Professionals
NSF is sponsoring three workshops for education and outreach 
professionals and NSF Research Centers Educators' Network (NRCEN) 
members. The purpose of the workshops is to build the community of 
participants using and contributing to the NEO-Sphere.org web site by 
offering an introduction to the resources on the site and guided 
instruction in adding and accessing these resources.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_111
Related Link: https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/neosphere

B O O K M A R K S

Participatory Learning Competition
The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is 
now open!  The focus is participatory learning. Awards will be made 
in two categories.
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http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212
Related Link: http://www.dmlcompetition.net

Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends Update
The report Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends Update highlights 
the results of the most recent Speak Up online survey (fall 2007), in 
which Project Tomorrow probed deeper on this important national topic.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_213
Related Link: 
http://fs6.formsite.com/blackboardmarketing/form422360408/index.html

I N S P I R A T I O N 

Quasi the Robot
Quasi the Robot (2.0) is a friendly animatronic figure capable of 
fascinating conversation, remembering if she/he has met you before, 
getting embarrassed and communicating other subtle characteristics of 
emotion, speech and human behavior.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_314
Related Link: http://interbots.com/

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The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the Nation's online 
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NSDL would like to thank the National Science Foundation for its 
generous support and advocacy of NSDL as the NSF digital library of 
science education. This material is based upon work supported by the 
National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0227648, 0227656, and 
0227888. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations 
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not 
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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