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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><i>Issue 141, Nov. 28,
2008</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>N E W S<br>
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<font face="Verdana"><b>Shodor’s
New Web Site Provides a Better Equation to Help Students, Educators
</b><br>
</font><font face="Verdana">Shodor, a non-profit organization based in
Durham,
has rolled out a
major redesign and upgrade of its award-winning Web site to make it
easier to navigate and explore its freely available resources that
improve learning across the United States. The Web site is located at <a
href="http://www.shodor.org/">www.shodor.org</a>.</font>
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face="Verdana"> <a href="http://www.shodor.org/">http://www.shodor.org</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>TeachEngineering Digital Library Aligns
700+ Resources With Educational Standards in 50 States</b><br>
After sustained work and collaboration with JES & Co. and the
Center for Natural Language Processing (Syracuse University), the
TeachEngineering team released a new version of its K-12 engineering
collection for which all 700+ curricular items are
aligned to the K-12 math and science educational standards of all 50
states </font><font face="Verdana">in October</font><font
face="Verdana">.</font>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5vjsn3"><font
color="#000000">http://www.teachengineering.org/</font></a><br>
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<font face="Verdana"><big><b><small>Stay on Top of Trends and Tools
with NSDL Resource Center Brown Bags </small></b><br>
<small>The NSDL Resource Center announces a new
service</small><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><small>
that offers a way to </small><small>stay attuned to developing trends
in K12 and undergraduate STEM education and technology use;</small><small>explore
intersections between research and education in the NSDL community; and
</small><small>learn about emerging best practices across
multidisciplinary communities.</small></big></font>
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href="http://nsdl.org/pd/">http://nsdl.org/pd/</a></big><br>
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<b>New in MicrobeLibrary</b></font>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">The American Society for
Microbiology’s MicrobeLibrary continues to grow. Recent additions
include a new issue of Focus on Microbiology Education (FOME)
newsmagazine featuring ideas on teaching microbiology with fun; four
new articles accepted to volume 10 of the Journal of Microbiology &
Biology Education; three new curriculum activities; and three new
visual resources.</font></div>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03</font></a></font></div>
<font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microbelibrary.org">http://www.microbelibrary.org</a><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Verdana"><b> WGBH Teachers' Domain Reaches Out to
Student Video Producers and Makes Media More Accessible</b><br>
NSDL's Digital Media Resources Pathway WGBH Teachers' Domain opens the
door for student video producers with a newYouth Voices program and
works with Perkins School for the Blind to create accessible science
curriculum units for blind and low-vision students.<br>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04</font></a></font></div>
<font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microbelibrary.org">http://lab.wgbh.org/open-call/frontline-heat-and-youth-voices</a></font><font
face="Verdana"><br>
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</font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b>NSDL Blogosphere
Highlights</b> <br>
<a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/highlights/2008/11/24/bountiful-thanksgiving-resources-from-nsdl/">Thanksgiving
Resources</a>; Remembering the Invention of <a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/pathwaysnews/2008/11/18/engineering-education-today-in-history-blog-bell-telephone-introduces-push-button-telephone/">Push-button
Phone Technology</a>; <a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/polar/2008/11/25/counting-and-naming-every-glacier-in-iceland/">Counting
Every Glacier in Iceland</a>; </font><font color="#000000"
face="Verdana"><a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/11/24/sparc-ir-evolution-and-adoption-of-on-line-scholarly-publishing-models/">Online
Scholarly Publishing Ideas</a>;</font><font color="#000000"
face="Verdana"> <a
href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/connectingnews/2008/11/18/your-thanksgiving-turkey-can-be-a-nuisance-but-trees-compensate-well/">Turkey
as Nuisance</a>; and much more.<br>
</font>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_05"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_05</font></a></font></div>
<font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microbelibrary.org">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org</a><br>
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</font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b>Traffic Report: Visits
to NSDL.org increase 132%, Oct 07-Oct 08<br>
</b></font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">The rise in traffic
from October 07 (52,586 visitors) to October 08 (121,773 visitors)
represents a 132% year-on-year increase in visits to NSDL. The increase
in traffic was largely due to the addition of the NSDL landing pages. </font><br>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_06"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_06</font></a></font></div>
<font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microbelibrary.org">http://NSDL.org</a></font><font
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<div><font face="Verdana">E V E N T S</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b>Upcoming NSDL Web
Seminars: Chemistry Comes Alive III!</b><br>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Join NSDL and <a
href="http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=ChemDL">ChemEd
Digital Library</a> presenters for</font><font face="Verdana"> Seminar
4 in the NSDL Series on December 9, 2008.
This free teacher
professional development program in partnership with the National
Science Teachers Association (NSTA). This Web Seminar will focus on
resources you can use to teach your
students about the chemistry of water such as the molecular structure
of water and its behavior in chemical reactions.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17</font></a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link(s):</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6g5pur"><font
color="#000000">http://nsdl.org/?homepage_ad=1&resource_id=813</font></a></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b>CALL: Fourth Annual
International Open Repositories Conference</b><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><big><big>Two- to
four-page proposals
for presentations or panels that discuss theoretical, practical, or
administrative issues of digital repositories that focus on areas
represented
by the conference themes are now welcome. The deadline for submitting
papers, user group presentations, posters, workshops is Feb. 2, 2009.</big></big><br>
</span></font></div>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18</font></a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link(s):</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://www.honeywellscience.com"><font
color="#000000">http://or09.library.gatech.edu/</font></a><br>
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<b>Developer Happiness Days (dev8D)</b><br>
The next Fedora European Union meeting will be held in conjunction with
Developer Happiness Days in London Feb 9-13, 2009. If you are
interested in finding out what makes Developers happy, or in attending
“Developer Happiness Days” (dev8D) please RSVP at the web site.<br>
<font color="#000000">Click here to view full
article</font>: </font><font face="Verdana"><a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_19"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_19</font></a><br>
<a href="http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><font
color="#000000">Related Link(s):</font> http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">B O O K M A R K S</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><br>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b>Speak Up
2008 Survey Open Through Dec. 19, 2008</b><br>
</font></div>
<font face="Verdana">Over 60,000 students, parents and educators have
shared their views through Speak Up 2008 since the survey opened in
October. Find out how you can help Speak Up! achieve 1% response from
total student enrollment from all 50 states at their web site.</font>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://www.netdayspeakup.org/Speakup2008/"><font
color="#000000">http://www.netdayspeakup.org/Speakup2008/</font></a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Teens Need Online Ed!</b><br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">The most extensive U.S. study on teens and
their use of digital media
finds that America’s youth are developing important social and
technical skills online--often in ways adults do not understand or
value.</font></div>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_210"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_210</font></a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <font color="#000000"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4773437/">http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4773437/</a><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><b>"The NSDL Community at
its Best,"</b></font></font><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><b> in
DLib Magazine</b><br>
</font>
<div><font face="Verdana">A report on the NSDL Annual Meeting 2008 by
Carol Minton Morris appears in the November/December 2008 issue of <i>DLib
Magazine.</i><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Click here to view full
article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211</font></a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org">http://dlib.org/dlib/november08/morris/11morris.html</a><br>
<b><br>
Toyota Tapestry Grants for Teachers</b><br>
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and the National Science Teachers
Association are pleased to announce the 19th Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for
Science Teachers program. This year, 50 large grants of up to $10,000
each and 20-32 mini-grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded to K-12
teachers of science in the United States.<br>
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<font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org">http://tinyurl.com/5czbuf</a></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana"><b>Mellon Foundation Funds Fedora
Commons and DSpace Initiative "In the Cloud"</b><br>
</font>
<div><font face="Verdana">Over the next six months funding from the
Mellon Foundation will allow the
organizations to jointly specify and design “DuraSpace,” a new
web-based service that will enable institutions to easily distribute
content to multiple storage providers, both “cloud-based” and
institution-based.</font></div>
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article</font><font face="Verdana">: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212</font></a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana">Related Link:</font><font
face="Verdana"> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5kqqze">http://tinyurl.com/6pcgm2</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">I N S P I R A T I O N </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>One Minute Science Mysteries</b><br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><i>One Minute Mysteries: 65
Short Mysteries You Solve with Science!</i> is a book recommended for
grades 4-8, but is also of interest for anyone who is interested in the
ways that science affects daily life. The Science Naturally web site
features free hands-on learning activities such as "If My Mom Were a
Platypus" learning guide.<br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: <a
href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_313"><font
color="#000000">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_313</font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Related Link: <a
href="http://www.nationalmockelection.org/"><font color="#000000">http://sciencenaturally.com/</font></a></font></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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nsdl.org">http://nsdl.org</a>)
funded by the National Science
Foundation, is published monthly and includes information from NSDL
projects and programs nationwide. PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE. TO
SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE visit<u>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><i>Whiteboard Report</i> is edited by Carol
Minton Morris (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:clt6@cornell.edu/607-255-2702">clt6@cornell.edu/607-255-2702</a>),
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
the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Science Foundation.</font></div>
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