Recent posts from the NSDL blogosphere

St. Louis Science Center & Robotics

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:25:57 +0000

Robotics exhibit and experiment, St. Louis Science Center It can take a long time for a science center to build relationships with scientists and engineers, but one member of the museum community is convinced that it’s worth the effort.  “You may not see tangible results for a long time,” says Christine [...]

November 11th Web Seminar: Knowing Nano

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:55:42 +0000

Spark your students’ curiosity and hone their inquiry skills with free DragonflyTV Nano educational resources. Sign up for this free NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar, Thursday, November 11th at 6:30pm Eastern Time to learn more about nanotechnology and how to incorporate related online materials into your teaching. Dragonfly TV features six half-hour episodes dedicated entirely to [...]

Cheat sheets and blogs for science teachers

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:19:57 +0000

A couple links that look very helpful. 100 excellent blogs for science teachers (which includes yours truly!) Includes a bunch of teacher blogs (which seems like a great way to get some online mentorship if you’re all alone), and subject-area blogs (like physics or biology). A very useful list. 100 cheat sheets for K12 teachers The sections on [...]

Video footage of teaching

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:58 +0000

Here are a few collections of videos of science teaching and learning — useful for learning how to teach. Annenberg: http://www.learner.org/resources/series90.html http://www.learner.org/resources/series126.html TIMSS http://nces.ed.gov/timss/video.asp

Polar News & Notes: October 2009 News Roundup

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:11 +0000

News from the polar regions in October 2009 included a NASA air campaign to monitor the Antarctic ice sheets and coastal sea ice, continued concerns over the high levels of global carbon dioxide and climate change, and engineering technology to fight erosion. Missed these stories the first time around? Read on! A laser technique used successfully [...]

Make a yummy fish mummy

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:19:49 +0000

Ok, it probably wouldn’t be very yummy, but here’s another hands-on activity you can use that’s rather Halloween-like. Called “Make a ‘mummy’”, this Exploratorium activity is a great way to demonstrate how mummification works, by drying out the tissue in a fish using baking soda. Egyptians used a specific type of salt to [...]

Older Volunteers Serving Older Audiences

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:35:37 +0000

Most volunteers for science museums are older adults, according to a 2008 survey by the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC).  And because science centers have three times as many volunteers as they do paid staff, they are places where older adults are just as important as children.  But [...]

On the Road with DuraSpace in November

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:16:57 +0000

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace staff members will be speaking about Fedora Commons, DSpace, and DuraCloud during sessions, press briefings, on the exhibit floor and in hallways this November: EDUCAUSE, Nov. 3-6, 2009, Denver, CO–Michele Kimpton and Carol Minton Morris will be at the Sun booth and at a cocktail party with DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai [...]

Report Findings: Trends in College and University IT

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:54 +0000

This summary of key findings from the Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report was provided by Jarret Cummings, Special Assistant to the President, EDUCAUSE. Traveling to the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver Nov. 3-6, 2009? Please visit DuraSpace at the Sun booth and plan on attending the DuraSpace, JA-SIG, Kuali, Sakai reception. Boulder, CO, Washington, [...]

Kai Strnad, FIZ Karlsruhe, to Lead Fedora Repository 3.3 Release

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:01 +0000

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA With pride in the community participation that powers open source repository platform development, DuraSpace and the Fedora Commons Repository Project are pleased to announce that Kai Strnad will serve as Community Release Manager for the upcoming release of Fedora Repository 3.3. Kai is a Software Engineer with FIZ Karlsruhe, and has been [...]

Science activities for Halloween!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:24:38 +0000

With halloween fast approaching, it’s time to take advantage of a frivolous holiday to do some fun science stuff. No post about Halloween would be complete without a reference to the Grossology site. Scroll down for “lab activities”: This gets high marks from one teacher who says, “It has the simpliest of the slimey [...]

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:36 +0000

In a press release posted to the SPARC-IR mailing list,  the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) became the founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). A full text of the release is below or you may visit https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5212.html. October 23, 2009 OTTAWA/GHENT, BELGIUM - On October 21, CARL became a founding member of the [...]

British Library “Subject Repositories” International Conference, Jan. 28-29, 2010

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:35:29 +0000

London, UK The Subject Repositories Conference, which is the first of its kind, will explore the development of subject repositories worldwide and will see the launch of Economists Online, the key output of an EC-funded subject repository project managed by the Nereus consortium of top European economics libraries. Nereus members will showcase this subject repository [...]

Using “A Kool Reaction from the Fine Print” in the Classroom

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:43:41 +0000

By Dan Toomey, Edgewood Middle School, Madison, Wisconsin I have used “A Kool Reaction from the Fine Print” JCE Classroom Activity with my 8th grade students as guided-inquiry method in order to introduce atoms. (This activity is the one that was done in the Chemistry Comes Alive! Part 4 NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar on October 15.) We [...]

Climate and Energy Awareness: A New NSDL Pathway Begins Planning in 2010

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:28:11 +0000

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Pathway will steward a broad collection of educational resources that facilitate students, teachers, and citizens becoming climate literate and informed about “the climate’s influence on you and society and your influence on climate.” The CLEAN Pathway will integrate the effective use of the resources across all [...]

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