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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><i><b>Issue 139 Sept. 26,
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>Get Ready for Washington: NSDL Annual
Meeting Updates</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><i>By Sarah Holsted</i> The 2008 NSDL Annual
Meeting is almost upon us. This update includes reflections on the
planning process and an overview of the program.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a href=""><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/"><font
face="Verdana">http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Annual Meeting 2008 Blog</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Tune into NSDL Road Reports for
up-to-the-minute blog posts about the NSDL Annual
Meeting.</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?issue=current#id_01"><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:</font> <a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/"><font
face="Verdana">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Rolling Out NSF's NSDL Awards for
2008-2009</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Eighteen National Science Digital Library
(NSDL) awards have been announced by the National Science
Foundation.</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?issue=current#id_02"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/3un7ph"><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/3un7ph</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Pathways and Projects
Updates</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Download NSDL Pathways
Highlights and NSDL Projects Updates from the Annual Meeting web
site.</font></div>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03"><font
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>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03</font></a></div
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face="Verdana"> http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>New Web Site for Engineering
Pathway</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The Engineering Pathway recently redesigned
its website to better engage the younger generation by incorporating
findings and recommendations from the recent National Academy of
Engineering study,<i> Changing the Conversation.</i></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?issue=current#id_04"><font
face="Verdana"
>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:</font> <a
href="http://www.engineeringpathway.com"><font
face="Verdana">http://www.engineeringpathway.com</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>NSDL's Science Literacy Map Tool Adds 41
New Maps and "Student Misconceptions" Feature</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">The new version of the
National Science Digital Library's </font><font face="Verdana"
color="#55198B"><u>Science Literacy Map (SLM) tool</u></font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000"> is an easy-to-use service
that finds and presents students with the right resource at just
the right moment.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">:</font> <a
href="http://onramp.nsdl.org/view/onramp:1343"><font
face="Verdana"
>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://strandmaps.nsdl.org/?id=SMS-MAP-0048</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">E V E N T S</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Educause 2008</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">IT in Higher Education will once again be in
the spotlight at Educause 2008 to be held in Orlando, FL October 28 -
31.</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?issue=current#id_16"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=321&bhcp=1"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=321&bhcp=1</font></a
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<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>"Pat the Librarian"
Featured in</b></font><font face="Verdana"><b> APS Forum on
Education</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Pat Viele, NSDL blogger and the<font
color="#000000"> physics and astronomy librarian at Cornell
University</font> has an article about information fluency for physics
featured in the Summer 2008 newsletter of the<i> APS Forum on
Education</i>.</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?issue=current#id_27"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_27</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2008/viele.cfm"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2008/viele.cfm</font></a
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Timelines and review process for the
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
solicitation</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The timelines and review process for the
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation,, are
changing in 2009.</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?issue=current#id_28"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_28</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm"><font
face="Verdana">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm</font
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<div><font face="Verdana">I N S P I R A T I O N </font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Large Hadron Rap</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">A creative team from the CERN Large Hadron
Collider found a unique way to tell the world why physicists are so
interested in the results of the collision of sub atomic particles at
high speeds in a new music video seen by millions of Internet
viewers.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:</font> <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_39"><font
face="Verdana"
>http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_39</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link:</font> <a
href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM"><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Verdana"><i>NSDL Whiteboard Report,</i> research news
and notes from the National Science, Technology, Mathematics Education
Digital Library (http://nsdl.org) funded by the National Science
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>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br>
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
the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Science Foundation.</font></div>
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