[Whiteboard-subscribers] NSDL Whiteboard Report_140_Oct. 22, 2008

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Issue 140, Oct. 22, 2008

N E W S

The Periodic Table Live! from the Chemical Education Digital Library
"Periodic Table Live!" is a notable new resource from the 
<http://chemeddl.org/>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.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00
Related Link: 
<http://chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/index.html>http://chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/index.html

Cyberlearning Updates, New NSDL Pathways
At their recent NSDL Annual Meeting National Science Digital Library 
partners met in Washington, D.C. Sept. 30 - October 2, 2008 to unveil 
new directions for the 8-yr-old NSF initiative designed to leverage 
online educational STEM opportunities for students and learners of 
all ages nationwide. Three new NSDL Pathways partners, that provide 
access to audience-specific views of appropriate NSDL resources and 
services, were introduced.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01
Related Link: 
<http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways>http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways 

The Future of Networked Information
Over the past two years the <http://www.openarchives.org/>Open 
Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project 
called <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/>Object Reuse and 
Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the 
publishing, web, library, repository, and eScience communities to 
develop standards for the identification and description of 
aggregations of Web resources. Production versions of the OAI-ORE 
specifications and implementation documents are now available to the 
public, with a table of contents page 
at <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc>http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc. 
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02
Related Link: <http://tinyurl.com/5vjsn3>http://tinyurl.com/5vjsn3

E V E N T S

Upcoming NSDL Web Seminars: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bear Series, 
October 29th and November 13th
The next two free seminars in the NSDL series feature online 
professional development programs for elementary educators, K-5. 
These seminars will highlight resources from Beyond Penguins and 
Polar Bears, a cyberzine that helps educators integrate science and 
literacy with a focus on the polar regions.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_13>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_13
Related Link(s): 
<http://tinyurl.com/6g5pur>http://tinyurl.com/6g5pur; 
<http://tinyurl.com/6eknth>http://tinyurl.com/6eknth

Tune in to the Honeywell Nobel Minds Laureate Lecture Series
Join students and teachers worldwide on October 27, 2008 at 10am CST 
for a lecture by Professor Mario J. Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel 
Prize in Chemistry. His lecture is part of the Honeywell Nobel Minds 
Laureate Lecture series. The lecture will be given at Tecnologico de 
Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. You can watch it LIVE at: 
http://www.honeywellscience.com.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_14>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_14
Related Link(s): 
<http://www.honeywellscience.com>http://www.honeywellscience.com

B O O K M A R K S

Speak Up Survey
Join 319,223 students, 25,544 teachers, 19,726 parents and 3,263 
administrators who have participated in Speak Up Day annual national 
educational research surveys facilitated by Project Tomorrow. The 
2008 survey closes December 19, 2008.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_25>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_25
Related Link: 
<http://www.netdayspeakup.org/Speakup2008/>http://www.netdayspeakup.org/Speakup2008/

"Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education" Blog Post
Steve Hargadon, Educational Technology Consultant and Entrepreneur, 
writes about K-12 educational technology and topics related to the 
future of education. He boils down the Web 2.0 to the simple idea 
that it is "a two-way medium" as it applies to education in this 
recent blog post.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_26>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_26
Related Link: <http://tinyurl.com/5uqt4f>http://tinyurl.com/5uqt4f

Speaking of Something Interesting: NSDL Blogosphere Highlights
There is always something interesting in NSDL's blogs: National 
Chemistry Week: What Works?; Evaluating Information, and Discovery of 
the Structure of DNA.
Click here to view full article: 
<>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_27
Related Link: <http://expertvoices.nsdl.org>http://expertvoices.nsdl.org

Gaming Company Seeks Input from Teachers
Ramo means "play" in Gujrati, and is the name of a new gaming company 
<http://ramogames.com/>Ramogames.com. This gaming site is targeted at 
kids and is founded by Sumir Meghani a Harvard Business School 
graduate and Yahoo! alum along with others who have experience with 
companies like Electronic Arts, Thomson Learning. Meghani is seeking 
input from teachers about what might be useful in classrooms in this 
survey.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_28>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_28
Related Link: <http://tinyurl.com/5kqqze>http://tinyurl.com/5kqqze

Time for the Sparky Awards, from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and 
Academic Resources Coalition)
The competition invites students to consider the issues and 
creatively express their views around the 2008 contest theme 
"MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing." Submissions must be 
received by November 30, 2008.
Click here to view full article: 
<http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_29>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_29
Related Link: <http://www.sparkyawards.org/>http://www.sparkyawards.org/

I N S P I R A T I O N 

National Student/Parent Mock Election; October 30
The National Student/Parent Mock Election seeks to turn the sense of 
powerlessness that keeps young Americans and their parents from going 
to the polls into a sense of the power of participation in our 
democracy.
Click here to view full article: 
<>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_310
Related Link: 
<http://www.nationalmockelection.org/>http://www.nationalmockelection.org/

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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 
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