<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>NSDL WHITEBOARD REPORT #124</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><i>Whiteboard Report news is on the Web at </i><a href="http://NSDL.org/"><font color="#250cf4" style="color: #250cf4"><i>http://NSDL.org</i></font></a><i> and </i><a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/whiteboardtalkback"><font color="#250cf4" style="color: #250cf4"><i>http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/whiteboardtalkback</i></font></a><i>. </i></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><i>Back issues are available at </i><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php"><font color="#250cf4" style="color: #250cf4"><i>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.p</i>hp</font></a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><i>October 30, 2007</i></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>NEWS</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>NSDL Gets Teachers’ Domain Treatment</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.teachersdomain.org/collections/wgbh/lsps07/all_resources.html">http://www.teachersdomain.org/collections/wgbh/lsps07/all_resources.html</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">As part of its Pathways grant, Teachers' Domain has added 100 new resources to its Life and Physical Sciences collections after adapting them from collections in the NSDL. Ten new lesson plans accompany the new resources. WGBH selected and developed these materials with the assistance of advisors from BSCS and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They adapted the media assets from a wide range of original sources in the NSDL, including museums (Exploratorium, American Museum of Natural History), universities (Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Rutgers), organizations (AAAS, ChemThink, Texas Parks and Wildlife), and public television sources (“Dragonfly TV,” “Curious George,” “Design Squad,” “NOVA scienceNow.”) Free registration is required to view the new resources at the link above. More information is in an October 23 post to Expert Voices: <a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews"><font color="#1908f1" style="color: #1908f1">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews</font></a> .</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Dave Fulker Honored By AMS</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/">http://www.ametsoc.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has given its Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences to David Fulker, the first Executive Director of NSDL. The Award is given to those who “have contributed to the progress of atmospheric sciences or to the application of atmospheric sciences to general, social, economic, or humanitarian welfare.” Fulker is cited for “almost a half century of pioneering work in the development of statistical applications providing service within the atmospheric sciences,” Before he joined NSDL, Fulker spent 18 years directing the Unidata Program Center at the University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Among Fullker’s many accomplishments there was to help create channels that provide real-time weather data through the Internet. Fulker will receive the honor at the AMS’s 88th Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January 2008. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>CNLP To Put State Standards On Thinkfinity</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.thinkfinity.org/">http://www.thinkfinity.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.cnlp.org/">http://www.cnlp.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> Thinkfinity, a digital learning platform supported by the Verizon Foundation, has awarded a grant to the Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) at Syracuse University in order to assign state standards to their online content. Some of Thinkfinity’s online collections are already connected to national education standards, but teachers often have difficulty comparing federal standards to requirements in their own state. The CNLP plans to hire 20 cataloguers to review and revise standards assignments that will be automatically generated by its software. Their tools were developed with NSF–NSDL funding and are available to other NSDL projects. For more information, contact Anne Diekema at diekemar AT syr.edu. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>New In Microbe Library</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.microbelibrary.org/">http://www.microbelibrary.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">The American Society for Microbiology’s digital learning site, Microbe Library, continues to grow. Recent additions include a new issue of Focus on Microbiology Education (FOME) that emphasizes grade school (K-12) outreach, and a new article in the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (JMBE) on a student project to sequence, assemble, and annotate the Enterobacter cloacae P101 genome at the University of Florida. Two new curriculum activities and six new resources are also available for downloading from the Atlas-Protocol collection, which explains the history theory, and procedures of research protocols. Finally, eight new visual resources have been published. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Engineering Pathway Honors Arcade</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier">http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">NSDL’s Engineering Pathway has awarded the 2007 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware to Kirk Martini of the University of Virginia for Arcade, a computer program that simulates and animates physical structures. Arcade uses a physics engine to model structural behavior and performs computations in real time, so that models respond instantly to input from the keyboard and mouse with a game-like interface. The Pathway also named two finalists for the award: Jeliot 3, an easy-to-use program animation system intended for teaching introductory programming and developed jointly by the University of Joensuu and the Weizmann Institute of Science; and JFLAP 6.1, a software tool for experimenting with finite automata, pushdown automata, Turing machines, grammars, parsing and L-systems. It was developed by Susan Rodger of Duke University and her students. More information is in an Octobr 23 post to Expert Voices: <a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews"><font color="#1908f1" style="color: #1908f1">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews</font></a> .</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>NSDL-NSTA Webinar News</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL2/webseminar4.aspx">http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL2/webseminar4.aspx</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.nsta.org/academy">http://www.nsta.org/academy</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">“Studying Genomes,” the fourth web seminar in a series offered by the NSDL and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), will be held on Tuesday, November 13 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Dr. Robert DeSalle, author and curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, will speak on developments in genetic research and the new science of genomics. As researchers have mapped the genomes of hundreds of species (including the human genome), new insights have arisen that allow scientists to map the evolutionary relationships among organisms and use that knowledge to understand infectious diseases and genetic disorders. The seminar is directed at teachers of grades 7-12, and free pre-registration is required through the link below. Also, the successful web seminar “FunWorks: Inspiring Students to pursue Math and Science Careers” will be repeated through the New Science Teachers Academy, a new NSTA initiative that aims to support and encourage novice grade 7-12 science educators. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx">http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>BOOKMARKS</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Robert Noyce Scholarships</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(27, 9, 255); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=11048"><u>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=11048</u></a></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1b09ff" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1b09ff"><u>1</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">The Robert Noyce Scholarship program encourages talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers in high-need school districts. The program provides undergraduate and graduate scholarships and stipends through 16 institutions of higher education. South Dakota State University’s program should create 24 new teachers in the state over four years; New York University’s program matches students with mentors who work to keep them in the field. A complete list of granting institutions is at the link above. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Cost of Copyright Confusion</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/news/medialit_report_release">http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/news/medialit_report_release</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">In this report, the Center for Social Media shows that the fundamental goals of media literacy education—to cultivate critical thinking and expression about media and its social role—are compromised by unnecessary copyright restrictions. As a result of poor guidance, counterproductive guidelines, and fear, teachers use less effective teaching techniques, teach and transmit erroneous copyright information, fail to share innovative instructional approaches, and do not take advantage of new digital platforms. There are many ways copyrighted material can be legally used without permission or payment, but educators have no consensus around what constitutes acceptable fair use practices.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Whiteboard Special Issue</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org/">http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">The NSDL’s Annual Meeting takes place next week (November 6-8) in Arlington, Virginia. Over 175 are registered. Later this week, we will send a special issue of Whiteboard Report containing more information about the posters and sessions planned for the meeting.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>INSPIRATION</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Can Cockatoos Really Dance?</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_fxs8mUcQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_fxs8mUcQ</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#1908f1" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #1908f1"><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/dancing-cockato.html">http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/dancing-cockato.html</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Snowball the Cockatoo stomps and shakes his feathers to a song by the Back Street Boys in a video on YouTube. He has done it more than one million times since the clip went up last month. But is Snowball responding to the music, or to its owner? In the blog for the PBS show “Wired Science,” ornithologist John Pepper writes that cockatoos “are intensely social and interactive birds. They are especially interactive with a person they know well. But even as a stranger you can easily elicit this kind of behavior. If you walk into a pet store and interact with any parrot, make eye contact, and talk to it, and then start bobbing your head, chances are good that it will start bobbing its head along with you. Try it! I suspect that in most cases, while the video is being shot, but outside the picture, the bird's owner is dancing along with the bird and encouraging it.”</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><i>NSDL Whiteboard Report describes research, news, and notes from the National Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Education Digital Library (</i><a href="http://NSDL.org/"><font color="#250cf4" style="color: #250cf4"><i>http://NSDL.org</i></font></a><i>), which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Whiteboard is published bi-weekly and includes information from NSDL projects and programs nationwide. Please redistribute. 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