From clt6 at cornell.edu Thu Aug 6 10:10:18 2009 From: clt6 at cornell.edu (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu Aug 6 10:20:56 2009 Subject: [Whiteboard-subscribers] NSDL Whiteboard Report 148, Aug. 6, 2009 Message-ID: <5F14E414-25F7-4143-8E95-EF8E08CCB8A4@cornell.edu> NSDL WHITEBOARD REPORT Whiteboard Report news is on the Web at http://NSDL.org. Back issues are available at http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php. August 2009 Issue #148 NEWS Beta Version of MAISON Accessible StrandMap Search Now Available A beta version of MAISON has been released. MAISON's goal is to improve participation to NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) by teachers, librarians, and learners who are blind. MAISON is enhancing the accessibility of NSDL, its internal and external resources and existing services (such as strand maps of educational benchmarks). Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17703 Related Link: MAISON Clarkson University Engineers Win 2009 Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering "Energy Systems and Solutions" is the winner of the inaugural Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering and is now part of the TeachEngineering digital library collection. The unit is a suite of eighth-grade lessons and activities that provide a comprehensive, practical, and engaging investigation into energy and how it is used - presented from a real-world, applied engineering point of view. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17682 Related Link: Engineering Pathway NSDL at the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting ComPADRE, NSDL's Physics and Astromomy Pathway and CSERD, NSDL's Computational Science Pathway were featured in presentations and workshops throughout the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17684 Related Link: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting Resources to help you utilize the Periodic Table Live! (PTL!) The Chemical Education Digital Library has another new resource. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17709 Related Link: ChemEd Courses Optical or Invisibility Cloak Resource from the Engineering Pathway Ever wish you had an "invisibility cloak"? Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17710 Related Link: SINAM NSDL Interactivate at Notre Dame Dr. Bob Panoff of the Shodor Education Foundation presented two workshops on NSDL resources in support of computational thinking at the University of Notre Dame last month to a total of over 50 K-12 teachers and half a dozen students. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17686 Related Link: Michiana STEM Interactivate Computational Science resources for mathematics learning Dynamic Simulation and Agent Modeling Physics Workshop One-day introduction to dynamic simulation and agent modeling, featuring NSDL, Interactivate tools, Excel and Agent Sheets. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17688 Report from the ChemEd DL Workshops ChemEd DL webinars and workshops held this summer included: Periodic Table Live!, Molecules 360, ChemEd courses, ChemPRIME and ChemPaths Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17711 Related Link: ChemEd DL meeting archive CALL: Participate in the NSDL 2009 Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting Planning Committee is soliciting proposals for presentations at the 2009 NSDL Annual Meeting, November 17-19 in Washington, D.C. Proposals are welcomed from both the NSDL community and from individuals and groups not directly affiliated with an NSDL- funded project. Proposals will be due by midnight of August 28. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17690 Related Link: NSDL Community Blog EVENTS MSP2 Summer Tech Talk Join an MSP2 Summer Tech Talk to get the answers about digital tools for teaching and learning that other people already seem to have! Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17694 Related Link: MSP2 Summer Tech Talk Announcing the 4th NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series Free online teacher professional development seminars this fall: Chemistry Comes Alive IV: Oxidation and Reduction, Timely Teachings: Seasons and the Cycles of Night and Day, along with seminars from PBS favorites WGBH Teachers' Domain and Dragonfly TV. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17695 Related Link: NSTA Web Seminars BOOKMARKS Energy Systems and Solutions curricula unit View the 2009 Winner Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering eighth-grade Energy Systems and Solutions curricula unit. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17697 Related Link: Teach Engineering Curricular Unit: Energy Systems and Solutions Engineering Pathway Events in History Blog Did you know that the Engineering Pathway posts "Events in History" for every day of the year? Many of these engineering-related historic events have accompanying blogs we have posted that can be used to enhance your curriculum by connecting new technologies with their historical roots. Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17708 Related Link: Today in History blog Keep Up With NSDL on Twitter Find out the latest news about NSDL web seminars, events and technology developments by following NSDL on Twitter Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17699 Related Link: http://twitter.com/NSDL INSPIRATION QuarkNet QuarkNet is a hybrid virtual and face-to-face network where teachers, students, parents and physicists interact with one another to "explore the hidden nature of matter, energy, space and time." Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=148#17701 Related Link: QuarkNet NSDL Whiteboard Report, research news and notes from the National Science, Technology, Mathematics Education Digital Library (http://nsdl.org ) funded by the National Science Foundation, is published monthly and includes information from NSDL projects and programs nationwide. PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE. TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE visit http://nsdl.org/publications/index.php?pager=signup . Whiteboard Report is edited by Carol Minton Morris (clt6@cornell.edu/ 607-255-2702), NSDL Communications Director. Project leaders and participants from the NSDL Community are encouraged to send research news and notes of interest with links to additional information to the editor. 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 Grant No. 0840744. 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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