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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><i><b>Issue 136 June 4,
2008</b></i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">N E W S</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Instructional Architect Helping to
"Design the Digital Classroom"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The Research Office at Utah State
UniDesIversity recently profiled the work of Mimi Recker and
her</font> <a href="http://ia.usu.edu/"><font
face="Verdana">Instructional Architect</font></a><font face="Verdana">
research group at Utah State University, funded by the NSF NSDL
program.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana">
http://research.usu.edu/researchmatters/htm/designing-the-digital-cla<span
></span>ssroom</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Improving Critical Thinking in Higher
Education</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Bob Panoff, Shodor's executive director,
presented "NSDL Resources to Support Critical Thinking" at
the "Critical Thinking Through Technology" workshop at
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) on May 20, 2008.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://www.shodor.org/cyberpathways/"><font
face="Verdana">http://nia.ecsu.edu/bw/bwf_orr.html </font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Developing Middle School Students'<font
color="#000000"> Conceptual Understanding and Scientific Habits of
Mind</font></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">NSDL's Middle School
Portal and the National Middle School Association hosted a web seminar
entitled, "A New Model of Science Curricula and Instruction" on
Thursday, May 29, 2008.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://msteacher.org/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Plug the NSDL Wiki into
the NSDL Repository and Get . . . A Scholarly
Publication</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">A new National Science
Digital Library (NSDL) scholarly publication, Classic Articles in
Context (CAC), was launched in April 2008 with an atmospheric science
theme: "Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A
Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays."
Classic Articles in Context will present additional significant
scientific questions of the Twentieth Century using landmark and
important legacy papers in future issues.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/PALE:ClassicArticles</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Francis Eberle Named Executive Director
of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Francis Eberle, executive director of the
Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) and an NSDL PI, will
take the lead at NSTA in August replacing Gerry Wheeler as NSTA's
executive director.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.nsta.org/about/pressroom.aspx?id=54908</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NSDL at Minnesota Independent Schools
"Affinity Day"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Teachers from Minnesota schools recently
came to<font color="#000000"> Providence Academy in Minneapolis</font>
to hear<font color="#000000"> Bob Panoff, Founder and Executive
Director of the Shodor Foundation,</font></font> <a
href="http://www.shodor.org/talks/nsdl"><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">share his ideas</font></a><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"> about "Resources and Collaborations Available
for Teachers through the National Science Digital
Library."</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_05</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://www.shodor.org/cyberpathways/"><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">http://www.shodor.org/cyberpathways/</font></a><br>
<font face="Verdana"></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Engineering Education History in Expert
Voices</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Engineering Pathway PI Alice Agogino
regularly posts a "Today in History" item of interest
in<font color="#000000"> NSDL's blogosphere</font>.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_06</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews/author/aliceagogino/</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>See All the Way Around a
Molecule</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">A description of the ChemEd
DL's new collection of molecular models called Molecules
360.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_08</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#3079C6">
http://www.chemeddl.org/collections/molecules/index.php</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NSDL Core Integration Staff
Updates</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Karen Henry, former NSDL Core Integration
Technical Project Manager, and and Alex Chaux, former NSDL Core
Integration Programmer have accepted positions with the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_07</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews/author/aliceagogino/</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">E V E N T S</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar:<font
color="#000000"> Enlightening Experiences with
Energy</font></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Get ready for labs,
interactives, historical accounts, and lesson plans related to energy
curricula on June 12, 2008, 6:30-8:00 p.m. ET--all at your fingertips!
Brought to you by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_19</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx</font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Summertime Fedora Commons
User Meetings and Events</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Fedora open source
repository platform users are planning meetings and events in Canada
and Europe throughout the summer and early fall. Take a look at
upcoming opportunities to share ideas and information.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_11</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.ecdl2008.org/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Moving To the "Next
Level" of Materials Science Education</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Laura Bartolo, PI of NSDL
MatDL Pathway, is co-organizer of an upcoming NSF supported Materials
Science Education Workshop to be held August 3-5, 2008 in Washington,
D.C. The workshop is sponsored by the NSF Directorate of Math &
Physical Sciences, Division of Materials Research. The goal of the
workshop is to bring together 40 invited representatives from the
materials science education community for a two-day workshop to
provide a roadmap to the "next level" of materials science
education for the coming decade. A report capturing the major needs
and opportunities identified in the Workshop will be prepared and
presented to NSF.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_111</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://matdl.org/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Thank you for Your Annual
Meeting 2008 Submission</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The Annual Meeting Planning
Committee and reviewers are reading</font><font face="Verdana">
proposals for presentations and Lightning Talks<font color="#000000">
for the 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting to be held September 30-October 5
in Washington, D.C.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_112</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:534/AM07_final_report.pdf </font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Climate Discovery Online
Courses for Educators: Summer Session Now Accepting
Registrations</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">This summer The National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers a series of seven-week
online courses for middle and high school teachers that combine
geoscience content, information about current climate research, easy
to implement hands-on activities, and group discussion.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_00"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_114</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#3079C6">
http://ecourses.ncar.ucar.edu</font><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>SPARC Institutional Repositories
Conference</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and
SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, announces the SPARC
Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, to be held November 17-18, 2008 at
the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_113</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Web Seminar Series to
Feature "Math Tools in Action"</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Find out how to add dynamic
computations and visualizations to websites using webMathematica 2.
The Wolfram Education Group announces its newest seminar series
scheduled throughout June 2008, "S22: Overview of
webMathematica."</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_113</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/seminar.cgi</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">B O O K M A R K S</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Highlights From the June
2008 Issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Beyond Penguins and Polar
Bears issue 4 focuses on "Weather and Climate: From Home to the
Poles."</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_218"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_216</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link: http://beyond
penguins.nsdl.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>'Open Students" Seeks Guest
Bloggers</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">'Open Students' accepts guests posts on any
aspect of Open Access and welcome guest posts by students, faculty,
librarians, administrators, publishers, and others.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_217</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/5o2opw"><font
face="Verdana">http://www.openstudents.org/write/</font></a></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Future Libraries</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The editorial in the May/June Issue of<i>
D-Lib Magazine</i> introduces a new JISC web site, Libraries of the
Future," that addresses the provocative question,<font
color="#000000"> "In an information world in which Google
apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the
traditional, and even the digital, library? In a library environment
which is increasingly moving to the delivery of online rather than
print resources, what of the academic library's traditional place at
the heart of campus life?"</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_218</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://dlib.org/dlib/may08/05editorial.html</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Curriki-The Global Education &
Learning Community's "Summer of Content"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Curriki is offering $500 per unit of
instruction and $1600 per semester course to ensure strong curriculum
coverage for all major subject areas in K-12. </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:<font color="#000000">
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_219</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana">
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SummerofContent</font><br>
<font face="Verdana"></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">I N S P I R A T I O N </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>The Story of Stuff</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">This site has presented over 2 million
viewers with a multi-media description of<font color="#000000"> all
the "stuff" in our lives</font> created by the
industrial-consumer process-f<font color="#000000">rom its raw
material extraction, manufacture, sale, use and disposal, along with
how the "cycle of stuff" affects communities at home and
abroad even though most of this cycle is hidden.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php#id_320"><font
face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_320</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://storyofstuff.org/"><font
face="Verdana">http://storyofstuff.org/</font></a></div>
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