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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><i><b>Issue 137 July 3,
2008</b></i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">N E W S</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>New Collections in the Engineering
Pathway</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The Engineering Pathway has partnered with
additional engineering education communities to add eight new
collections and 2,457 new records now available at
NSDL.org.</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://nsdl.org/browse/?subject=New</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Chemistry Pathway
Chemistry Comes Alive! Resource Featured in iTunes Spotlight
Promotion</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">On July 1 Chemistry Comes
Alive! was featured in the iTunes U Spotlight: The Classics
distributed by the iTunes Store.</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_01</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://nsdl.org/iTunesU/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>New Web-Based Collection
of Open Source Physics Resources</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The Open Source Physics
(OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital library are pleased to announce
the creation of a new web-based collection of OSP
resources.</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_02</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:<u>
http://www.compadre.org/osp</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>New in
MicrobeLibrary</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"><u>http://www.microbelibrary.org</u></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">A new issue of<i> Focus on
Microbiology Education (FOME)</i> newsmagazine that emphasizes
outreach to high and middle school students has been published in the
American Society for Microbiology's (ASM)
MicrobeLibrary.</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
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color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.microbelibrary.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Scholarship Plus
Engineering Resources for Education</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The Engineering Pathway (EP)
has launched a new effort to link high quality learning resources to
related scholarship in engineering education.</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_04</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#800080"><u>
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/metadata/?id=D<span
></span>133759F-E826-4013-9034-F6507E8007F7</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Chemistry Moodle
Blossoms</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">http://moodle.chemeddl.org/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">At the Chemical Education Digital Library
(ChemEd DL) the Moodle classroom management system is used to host a
number of courses. Lately the Moodle webpage is becoming a hot bed of
activity.</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_05</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://moodle.chemeddl.org/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Microscopic Winners:
MicrobeLibrary Announces the Winners of the 2008 Editors' Choice
Awards</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The ASM MicrobeLibrary is
pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Curriculum and Visual
Editors' Choice Awards.</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://www.microbelibrary.org/whatsnew/index.asp?bid=1893</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NCore Web Site Launches</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">This new web site provides
easy access to the tools and standards that power the
NSDL.</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_07</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://ncore.nsdl.or</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>On the Road With Expert
Voices</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">From the<font color="#000000"> National
Education Computing Conference (NECC)</font> to the Special Libraries
Association Meeting and the global Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries, tune in to current research and initiatives highlights from
national and international gatherings in NSDL's Road
Reports.</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_08</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Now Available: Beta Two
Release of Content Model-driven Fedora 3.0</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The second beta release of
the popular Fedora software is now available for testing. The second
beta version of Fedora 3.0 completes most of the features planned for
the general release of the software.</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_09</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.fedora-commons.org/developers/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Call for Entries: Second
Annual Sparky Video Contest Spotlights Student Views on Information
Sharing</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Six library, student, and
advocacy organizations have announced the Second Annual Sparky Awards,
a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of
sharing and aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly
research by inviting students to express their views
creatively.</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_010</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.sparkyawards.org/.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Build a Better Engineering Course: Call
for Submissions</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>2008 Premier Award for Excellence in
Engineering Education Courseware</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">NEEDS, John Wiley & Sons, Microsoft
Research, Techsmith and Autodesk are pleased to announce the 2008
Premier Award competition. The Premier Award recognizes high-quality,
non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering
education.</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_011</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://www.needs.org/premier/</font></div>
<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>Chemistry Workshops Workshops for
Wisconsin Teachers</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The Chemical Education Digital Library
(ChemEd DL) is now hosting local workshops for chemistry teachers in
Wisconsin.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_011</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://www.needs.org/premier/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>"Bar Camp" at the Library of
Congress</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">A unique series of collaborative outreach
events sponsored by the<font color="#000000"> JISC Common Repository
Interfaces Group are being led by a team of award-winning British
developers. These "Repository Road Shows" are</font>
designed to prove that, "<font color="#000000">The coolest thing
to do with your data will be thought of by someone
else."</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_114</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/RepoCamp</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Thought-leaders in Policy, Innovation and
Advocacy at SPARC Digital Repositories Fall Meeting</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Higher-education leader
David Shulenburger, Science Commons head John Wilbanks, and marketing
communications strategist Bob Witeck are keynote speakers slated for
the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore on November
17-18, 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_115</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Weekly Mathematica Seminars from Wolfram
Education Group</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Coming up: A Technical Overview of
Mathematica, Monday, July 7, 10am EDT; Creating Demonstrations,
Tuesday, July 8, 6pm EDT, 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_216</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> http://www.wolfram.com/weg/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" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Wikis in College
Classrooms</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Wiki Writing: Collaborative
Learning in the College Classroom, a collection of essays edited (in
the "Wild, Wild Wiki") by Robert Cummings and Matt Barton, is
described as, "An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in
the classroom."</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_317</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.wildwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Stanford University School of Education
Open Access Motion</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">In recognition of its responsibility to make
its research and scholarship as widely and publicly available as
possible, the faculty of the Stanford University School of Education
is determined to take advantage of new technologies to increase access
to its work among scholars worldwide, educators, policymakers, and the
public.</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_318</font></a></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/4769/stanfords-education-school-man<span
></span>dates-open-access</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></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>Gapminder</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The Gapminder web site
features interactive analysis tools, videos, podcasts and interactive
presentations that support their mission as a non-profit venture
promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and
understanding of statistics and other information about social,
economic and environmental development at local, national and global
levels.</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_419</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://storyofstuff.org/"><font
face="Verdana">http://www.gapminder.org/</font></a></div>
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Foundation, is published monthly and includes information from NSDL
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<div><font face="Verdana"><i>Whiteboard Report</i> 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.</font></div>
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The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the Nation's online
library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics education and research.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">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
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