<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font><font><span style=""><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; "><div align="center"><font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">NSDL WHITEBOARD REPORT</span></font></b></font></div><hr><div align="center"><font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Whiteboard Report news is on the Web at</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current"><font color="#0027ee"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://NSDL.org</span></font></i></font></a></font><font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. Back issues are available at </span></font></i><font color="#0018ee"><i><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php.</span></font></a></i></font></font></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018EE"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></i></font></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018EE"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Issue 146, April 30, 2009</span></font></span></i></font></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></span><br></font></i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NEWS<br><br>NSTA-CBC Reviews of Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 Students<br></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The NSDL Resource Center has made the 2009 list of "Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12" available with links to NSTA-CBC reviews and alignments to relevant National Science Content Standards.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17146"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17146</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/imprint/nsta-outstanding-trade-books-2009/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/imprint/nsta-outstanding-trade-books-2009/</font></a></span></font></font><div><font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span style=""></span></font></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#551A8B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></span></font><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Shodor to Help Lead the Way For the World's Largest Supercomputer<br></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The world's largest and most powerful supercomputer is coming online in 2011, and a Shodor is helping to lead the way. Shodor, developer of </font><a href="http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=CSERD"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSDL's Computational Science Education Resources Pathway</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, will manage a $1.3 million education program to bring supercomputer brain power to college classrooms nationwide.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17136"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17136</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0500EF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.shodor.org/about/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.shodor.org/about/</font></a></span></span></font></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"Vrroooom-vroom" Goes Green<br></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Two springtime events--the Indiana Super Mileage Challenge and the <a href="http://www.greengrandprix.com/">2009 Green Grand Prix</a> in Watkins Glen, NY promise to highlight advances in green auto engineering that will make automobiles run better, faster and farther on less.<br>Click here to view full article:</font><font color="#0500EF"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></u></font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17137"><font color="#0500EF"><u><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=__VOLUME__#1713"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17136"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">146</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">#1713</font></a></u></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">7</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.imstea.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.imstea.org/</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Introducing "NSF Special Reports" Collection in NSDL<br></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">National Science Foundation (NSF) Special Reports online feature topics that highlight scientific discoveries accomplished with NSF support. This collection has recently been added to NSDL.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17145"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17145</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://nsf.gov/news/special_reports/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsf.gov/news/special_reports/</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NEW PODCAST: Deep Sea Thinking: Exploring the World's Ocean<br></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">In episode six earn how scientists are exploring the ocean's depths in this new podcast from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, and discover a fun song to share with students.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17165"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17165</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#551A8B"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#551A8B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/ucar.edu.1852494894.01852494896.2060336421?i=1637933525"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/ucar.edu.1852494894.01852494896.2060336421?i=1637933525</font></a></span></span></font></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">PRISMS Records Now Updated with Strand Map Service (SMS) Identifiers</font></b></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Take advantage of the graphical concept browsing interface of Science Literacy Maps which show the progression of students’ understanding of science concepts in viewing the PRISMS collection of reviewed phenomena and representations resources.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17163"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17163</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://prisms.mmsa.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://prisms.mmsa.org/</font></a></div><div><font><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">EVENTS<br><br>Blogging & Tweeting Academi</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">a</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Academics blog and tweet for many different reasons...<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17163"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17163</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.7iber.com/blog/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.7iber.com/blog/</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>NSDL Brown Bag: Community Repor</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">t<br>NSDL community members and friends are invited to join NSDL principal investigators Kaye Howe and Tamara Sumner for this update on NSDL's April 2009 site visit to the National Science Foundation, and the emerging vision of NSDL as a cyberlearning platform for STEM education.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17149"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=146#17149</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://nsdl.org/pd/?pager=brownbag"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsdl.org/pd/?pager=brownbag</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>2009 Sixth Annual Games for Change Festival in NY</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">C</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>This event is dedicated to a new movement that aims to use video games for social change--poverty, global conflict, climate change. Games for Change is called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-responsible game-makers."<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17151"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17151</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/fest20"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.gamesforchange.org/fest20</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Call for Submissions - 2009 Premier Awar</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">d</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Have you developed courseware - interactive websites, simulations, tutorials, case studies, software environments or tools - designed to enhance engineering education?<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17159"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17159</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.engineeringpathway.org/premier/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.engineeringpathway.org/premier/</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar: APS: Studying the Human Physiological Limits of Exploring Mar</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">s<br>Discussion on the question of whether or not human biology will limit our ability to travel through the solar system.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17162"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17162</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/Webseminar8.aspx"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/Webseminar8.aspx</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>BOOKMARKS<br><br>Repository-on-an iPh</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">one</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>ArXiview is a new iPhone application billed as a very easy way to surf the last few weeks of arXiv postings.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/Webseminar8.aspx"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NSDL3/Webseminar8.aspx</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://dabacon.org/arxiview/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://dabacon.org/arxiview/</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>President Obama at the National Academy of Sciences 146th Annual Meet</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">ing</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>President Barack Obama addressed members of the National Academy of Sciences gathered at its annual meeting on April 27, 2009.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17153"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17153</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://edg1.vcall.com/video/nas/launch.asp"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://edg1.vcall.com/video/nas/launch.asp</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>MERLOT Africa Network mailing l</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">ist</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>The MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) Africa Network mailing list<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://edg1.vcall.com/video/nas/launch.asp"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://edg1.vcall.com/video/nas/launch.asp</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>NOW AVAILABLE: NSDL EduPak 1.0: An Open Source Digital Library Services Platform for Educat</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">ion</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>NSDL EduPak is an all-in-one, open source, education digital repository solution bundle that provides a general platform for building digital libraries united by a common data model and interoperable applications.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17142"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17142</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/Community:EduPak"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/Community:EduPak</font></a></span></font></font></div><div><font><font><span style=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Engineering Pathway Themes for April and </font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">May</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Sustainable Engineering, Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and Blog updates, including: ecotourism, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, NSDL's trip to the NSF and Cow eye Tacos.<br>Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17157"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#17157</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/hEd/search/search_link.jhtml?keyword=origami"><font class="Apple-style-span" 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