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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><i><b>Issue 138 Aug.
27, 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" color="#000000"><b>Keeping a Digital
Promise</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">On Thursday, July 31, 2008,
Digital Promise, a fund to keep America competitive in this digital
century by transforming education, workforce training, and lifelong
learning, was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate as part of the
reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.digitalpromise.org/newsite/</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>New Features,
Functionalities, and Fun Stuff from the Beyond Penguins and Polar
Bears Project</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">You can now</font> <a
href="http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/browse/index.php"><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">Browse Columns</font></a><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">, and access the</font> <a
href="http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/information.php?topic=archive"><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">Archive.</font></a></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"
>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://www.beyondpenguins.nsdl.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>New Additions to the
MicrobeLibrary</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The American Society for
Microbiology's MicrobeLibrary continues to grow. Recent additions
include a new issue of<u><i> Focus on Microbiology Education</i>
(<i>FOME</i>)</u> newsmagazine featuring over 30 reviews of
educational materials including textbooks, websites, and electronic
materials.</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_0</font></a><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">2</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.microbelibrary.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NSDL Pathways at NSF Course, Curriculum
and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Meeting</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Principal Investigators from the NSF CCLI
program met at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, from August
13-15, 2008. The meeting was hosted by AAAS.</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_03</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Teachers' Domain Pathways
to Digital Media for Education Launch New Editions!</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Selected STEM media
resources from Teachers' Domain collections will be catalogued
according to topics and commonly taught courses in Astonomy, Biology,
Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Health Science, and
Physics.</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_0</font></a><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">4</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://www.teachersdomain.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Summer Travel Review in Expert Voices
Road Reports</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Reports from the American Association of
Physics Teachers (AAPT); RepoCamp at the Library of Congress plus a
view from SIGGRAPH 2008 in LA are all available on NSDL 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_05</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:
Production-Ready Fedora 3.0 Fits With the Web</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Fedora Commons released
version 3.0 of the popular Fedora software that completes all general
release features on July 30, 2008. Dan Davis, Chief Software
Architect, Fedora Commons, explained, "We are pleased to offer a
Fedora 3.0 that is a foundational step towards a model-driven content
architecture."</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.fedora-commons.org/developers/</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>NSDL Launches Third Series of Web
Seminars This Fall</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">NSDL Web Seminars 2008-2009 Series begins
September 25, 2008. NSDL has partnered for it's third year with the
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) as a part of their online
professional development programs. These free, 90-minute seminars
allow educators to interact with experts in the NSDL community from a
desktop.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/webse<span
></span>minar.asp</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Last Minute NSDL Annual Meeting Details
for Presenters-Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Make final changes to presentations, submit
posters, contact information and other details.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:
http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Free Webinar: Find Out Why Online
Learning is One of the Top Five Tech Trends in
Education</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Will your students and educators benefit
from this trend or be left out? Join Net Day Project Tomorrow on
Wednesday, Sept 17th for a free webinar where we will share the
updated online learning trends from Speak Up 2007 and our report<i>
"Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends
Update.</i>"</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_19</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/learning21Report_Update.html</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"><b>TODAY:</b></font><font
face="Verdana"><b> Scientific Visualization using Tecplot from the San
Diego Supercomputer Center</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#333333">At the San Diego
Supercomputer Center visualization techniques are applied to a variety
of interesting scientific domains.</font><font face="Verdana"> Remote
participants can join and interact by using a web browser for viewing
and a telephone for audio for this lecture scheduled for Aug. 27 from
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (PT) where three case studies of how HPC resources
were utilized to create visualizations in Seismic Research,
Astrophysics, and Cellular Imaging will be presented.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_110</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:
http://www.sdsc.edu/us/training/workshops.php?status=upcoming</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><b>Free Workshops for
Education and Outreach Professionals</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">NSF is sponsoring three
workshops for education and outreach professionals and NSF Research
Centers Educators' Network (NRCEN) members. The purpose of the
workshops is to build the community of participants using and
contributing to the NEO-Sphere.org web site by offering an
introduction to the resources on the site and guided instruction in
adding and accessing these resources.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_111</font></div
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<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:<font color="#000000">
https://www.engin.umich.edu/form/neosphere</font></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>Participatory Learning
Competition</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media
and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is<u>
participatory learning</u>. Awards will be made in two
categories.</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_212</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://</font><font face="Verdana"
color="#0000FF"><u>www.dmlcompetition.net</u></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Learning in the 21st Century: A Trends
Update</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The report<i> Learning in the 21st Century:
A Trends Update</i> highlights the results of the most recent Speak Up
online survey (fall 2007), in which Project Tomorrow probed deeper on
this important national topic.</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_213</font></font
></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://fs6.formsite.com/blackboardmarketing/form422360408/index.html</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>Quasi the Robot</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Quasi the Robot (2.0) is a
friendly animatronic figure capable of fascinating conversation,
remembering if she/he has met you before, getting embarrassed and
communicating other subtle characteristics of emotion, speech and
human behavior.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:
http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_314</font></div
>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:
http://interbots.com/</font></div>
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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
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of
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