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Issue 137  July 3, 2008

N E W S

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

Chemistry Pathway Chemistry Comes Alive! Resource Featured in iTunes 
Spotlight Promotion
On July 1 Chemistry Comes Alive! was featured in the iTunes U 
Spotlight: The Classics distributed by the iTunes Store.
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://nsdl.org/iTunesU/

New Web-Based Collection of Open Source Physics Resources
The Open Source Physics (OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital 
library are pleased to announce the creation of a new web-based 
collection of OSP resources.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02
Related Link: http://www.compadre.org/osp

New in MicrobeLibrary
http://www.microbelibrary.org
A new issue of Focus on Microbiology Education (FOME) newsmagazine 
that emphasizes outreach to high and middle school students has been 
published in the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) 
MicrobeLibrary.
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<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03
Related Link: http://www.microbelibrary.org

Scholarship Plus Engineering Resources for Education
The Engineering Pathway (EP) has launched a new effort to link high 
quality learning resources to related scholarship in engineering 
education.
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http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04
Related Link: 
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/metadata/?id=D133759F-E826-4013-9034-F6507E8007F7

Chemistry Moodle Blossoms
http://moodle.chemeddl.org/
At the Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) the Moodle 
classroom management system is used to host a number of courses. 
Lately the Moodle webpage is becoming a hot bed of activity.
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_05
Related Link: http://moodle.chemeddl.org/

Microscopic Winners: MicrobeLibrary Announces the Winners of the 2008 
Editors' Choice Awards
The ASM MicrobeLibrary is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 
Curriculum and Visual Editors' Choice Awards.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_06
Related Link: http://www.microbelibrary.org/whatsnew/index.asp?bid=1893

NCore Web Site Launches
This new web site provides easy access to the tools and standards 
that power the NSDL.
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<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_07
Related Link: http://ncore.nsdl.or

On the Road With Expert Voices
 From the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) to the 
Special Libraries Association Meeting and the global Joint Conference 
on Digital Libraries, tune in to current research and initiatives 
highlights from national and international gatherings in NSDL's Road 
Reports.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_08
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/

Now Available: Beta Two Release of Content Model-driven Fedora 3.0
The second beta release of the popular Fedora software is now 
available for testing. The second beta version of Fedora 3.0 
completes most of the features planned for the general release of the 
software.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_09
Related Link: http://www.fedora-commons.org/developers/

Call for Entries: Second Annual Sparky Video Contest Spotlights 
Student Views on Information Sharing
Six library, student, and advocacy organizations have announced the 
Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new 
short videos on the value of sharing and aims to broaden the 
discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting students to 
express their views creatively.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_010
Related Link: http://www.sparkyawards.org/.

Build a Better Engineering Course: Call for Submissions
2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware
NEEDS, John Wiley & Sons, Microsoft Research, Techsmith and Autodesk 
are pleased to announce the 2008 Premier Award competition. The 
Premier Award recognizes high-quality, non-commercial courseware 
designed to enhance engineering education.
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http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_011
Related Link: http://www.needs.org/premier/

E V E N T S

Chemistry Workshops Workshops for Wisconsin Teachers
The Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) is now hosting 
local workshops for chemistry teachers in Wisconsin.
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_011
Related Link: http://www.needs.org/premier/

"Bar Camp" at the Library of Congress
A unique series of collaborative outreach events sponsored by the 
JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group are being led by a team of 
award-winning British developers. These "Repository Road Shows" are 
designed to prove that, "The coolest thing to do with your data will 
be thought of by someone else."
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_114
Related Link: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/RepoCamp

Thought-leaders in Policy, Innovation and Advocacy at SPARC Digital 
Repositories Fall Meeting
Higher-education leader David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John 
Wilbanks, and marketing communications strategist Bob Witeck are 
keynote speakers slated for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 
2008 in Baltimore on November 17-18, 2008.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_115
Related Link: http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08

Weekly Mathematica Seminars from Wolfram Education Group
Coming up: A Technical Overview of Mathematica, Monday, July 7, 10am 
EDT; Creating Demonstrations, Tuesday, July 8, 6pm EDT, and others.
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_216
Related Link: http://www.wolfram.com/weg/seminar.cgi

B O O K M A R K S

Wikis in College Classrooms
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, a 
collection of essays edited (in the "Wild, Wild Wiki") by Robert 
Cummings and Matt Barton, is described as, "An indispensable and 
engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom."
Click here to view full article: 
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_317
Related Link: http://www.wildwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Stanford University School of Education Open Access Motion
In recognition of its responsibility to make its research and 
scholarship as widely and publicly available as possible, the faculty 
of the Stanford University School of Education is determined to take 
advantage of new technologies to increase access to its work among 
scholars worldwide, educators, policymakers, and the public.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_318
Related Link: 
http://chronicle.com/news/article/4769/stanfords-education-school-mandates-open-access

I N S P I R A T I O N 

Gapminder
The Gapminder web site features interactive analysis tools, videos, 
podcasts and interactive presentations that support their mission as 
a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and 
achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 
increased use and understanding of statistics and other information 
about social, economic and environmental development at local, 
national and global levels.
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_419
Related Link: <http://storyofstuff.org/>http://www.gapminder.org/

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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 
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