[Whiteboard-subscribers] NSDL Whiteboard Report 143, Jan. 23, 2009

[Carol Minton Morris]

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Issue 143, Jan. 23, 2009

N E W S

“We Will Restore Science to its Rightful Place… Transform Schools,  
Colleges and Universities”
On January 11, 2009 the National Science Board (NSB) issued “National  
Science Board STEM Education Recommendations for the President-Elect  
Obama Administration,” and sent them to Obama’s Transition Team.  
President Obama’s inaugural address reflected not only the concerns of  
the NSB, but included those of the entire nation.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00
Related Link:  http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2009/01_10_stem_rec_obama.pdf

WGBH Teachers’ Domain On iTunes
Teachers' Domain has added new life science, earth and space science,  
physical science, and engineering tracks as free downloads. Resources  
available for download include videos and educator guides with  
discussion.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01
Related Link:  http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org

Foreign Language Versions of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Now  
Available
A visit to the January 2009 issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears  
features a new "Change Language" option allowing users to choose to  
read the magazine in languages including French, Spanish, German and  
others.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02
Related Link: http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/

NSF Science Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD)  
Workshop
While students were busy during exam week in December, a three-day  
workshop At Washington & Lee University on computational science  
education and interactive computing resources from NSDL enabled about  
a dozen undergraduate math and science faculty to explore new modes of  
teaching and learning. During this same period, Computational Science  
Education Reference Desk (CSERD) and NSDL were featured resources  
along with the new High Performance Computing University HPCU) portal,  
at the e-Science Conference in Indianapolis.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03
Related Link: http://cserd.nsdl.org

One-stop Engineering Education News Service
The Engineering Pathway (EP) has launched an Engineering and Computing  
Education news service--a continuous feed of user-submitted items,  
featured on the EP homepage, parsed by discipline and displayed on EP  
disciplinary community pages. Learn more about personalized news and  
other services offered by the Engineering Pathway.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04
Related Link: http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/util/news_event/news_event_list.jhtml

E V E N T S

Media Literacy in the 21st Century
On Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ET NSDL/NSTA  
Web Seminars will show participants how to access classroom-ready  
resources from public television. This interactive presentation from  
WGBH's Teachers' Domain will show educators of grades 5-12 how to  
integrate media literacy into earth and space science curriculum while  
introducing free media resources from Teachers' Domain.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_15
Related Link: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx

NSDL at AAAS, Feb 13-15, Chicago
Representatives from NSDL Pathways and Projects will feature resources  
and address current trends and best practices related to teacher  
professional development and undergraduate student preparation during  
workshop sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16
Related Link: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/

USA TODAY Education and NASA Host STEM Career Exploration Webinars
Demonstrations of USA Today's career exploration web site, developed  
in collaboration with NASA, will be held online February 5, 9, and 13.  
Please RSVP if interested in participating.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17
Related Link: http://www.usatoday.com/educate/homesplash.htm

DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC Present  
All About Repositories Webinar Series
Beginning on February 18 DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun  
Microsystems and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources  
Coalition) will offer a free About Repositories Webinar Series to  
provide professional learning opportunities for repository managers,  
developers, curators and decision makers. The series will be web cast  
and will also be made available through DSpace, Fedora, Sun and SPARC  
web sites.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2009/01/20/dspace-foundation-fedora-commons-sun-microsystems-and-sparc-present-all-about-repositories-webinar-series/

B O O K M A R K S

NSF NSDL (National STEM Education Distributed Learning) Solicitation
The NSDL program aims to establish a national network of learning  
environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and  
mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. Projects that explore  
specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections,  
services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network,  
which were submitted as Targeted Research under previous  
solicitations, should now be submitted as small grants to the Services  
section of the program. The proposal deadline date is April 15, 2009.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_29
Related link: http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09531

2009 NSF/AAAS Visualization Challenge. You See it All
The 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge  
is co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the  
journal Science, published by the American Association for the  
Advancement of Science (AAAS). Winning entries will be published in a  
special section of the February 19, 2010 issue of the journal Science  
and Science Online and on NSF's website. One winning entry will appear  
on the front cover of Science.
For more information, see: http://www.nsf.gov/news/scivis
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_210
Related link: http://www.crabtreecompany.com/y_creative/NSF/09105AAS_Call-for-Entries.htm

"Classroom Information Needs," D-Lib Magazine
Author Marcia Mardis, Assistant Professor, College of Information,  
Florida State University, reports on a search analysis from a digital  
library for educators on search string logs from 2004-2006 from  
Michigan Teacher Network in the January/February issue of Dlib Magazine.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211
Related Link: http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/mardis/01mardis.html

"Documenting the Value of Education"
In this blog post Chemistry Professor John W. Moore, University of  
Wisconsin, and Editor of the Journal of Chemical Education examines  
the strong arguments Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz offer in  
their book The Race between Education and Technology,and agrees "that  
changes in policies are needed if the American educational system is  
to catch up with technological change and again make major  
contributions to our economic future."
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212
Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/01/13/documenting-the-value-of-education-february-2009/

NEW: Shodor InterACTIONS Newsletter
Shodor (http://www.shodor.org/) has launched a quarterly newsletter  
aimed at keeping a growing audience of students and teachers informed  
about the latest improvements and additions to Shodor's computational  
science programs and activities. The newsletter is available as a  
downloadable PDF file and via email.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_213
Related Link: http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=CSERD

MATHwire: Information for Mathematics Users
MATHwire, is a monthly newsletter published by Wolfram Research (http://www.wolfram.com/ 
) featuring information about Mathematica and other Wolfram Research  
products as well as related events from the Mathematica Learning Center.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_214
Related Link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2003-October/002382.html

I N S P I R A T I O N

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is This Month's Featured Collection in  
Dlib Magazine
Jessica Fries-Gather, Editor of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears and  
Elementary Resource Specialist, College of Education and Human  
Ecology, The Ohio State University provided readers of the January/ 
February issue of D-Lib Magazine with an in-depth look at Beyond  
Penguins and Polar Bears, an online professional development magazine  
for elementary teachers focused on preparing teachers to teach polar  
science concepts in an already congested curriculum.
Click here to view full article: http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_315
Related Link: http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/01featured-collection.html

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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  
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