NSDL’s Annual Meeting is set to take place from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2008 in Washington, D.C. This year, the program focuses on the complementary efforts of mature NSDL projects in a format developed to highlight the collective work from NSDL projects. Achievments in professional development and outreach with K12 and higher education audiences; […]
Archive for September, 2008
Get Ready for Washington: NSDL 2008 Annual Meeting
Friday, September 26th, 2008 9:14 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
NSDL Science Literacy Map Tool Adds “Student Misconceptions” Feature
Friday, September 19th, 2008 11:38 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Teachers work to connect broad learning concepts, standards and educational resources in K12 classrooms to ensure that their students’ progress is both developmentally sound and measurable. The new version of the National Science Digital Library’s Science Literacy Map (SLM) tool is an easy-to-use service that finds and presents students with the right resource at just the right moment. SLM provides visualizations for […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Physics, Social Studies, Strand maps, Technology
Seeing is Understanding In NSDL’s Large Hadron Simulation
Friday, September 12th, 2008 2:20 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Under the Swiss Alps this week beams of protons known as Hadrons circled the 27 kilometers of the most powerful particle accelerator (the CERN Large Hadron Collider) in the world for the first time. As those protons begin to collide scientists expect to learn more about dark matter and how mass exists. This NSDL resource […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
A Growing Interest in Online Teacher Professional Development
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 11:49 am
Written by: Brad Edmondson
In last year’s Speak Up 2007 Report, Project Tomorrow’s annual survey of teachers, parents, and students focusing on technology in schools, teachers expressed a growing need for online professional development programs. The survey showed a 29% increase in teacher interest in online programs from the previous year. The National Science Teachers Association’s […]
Posted in Topics: General
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
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