Ending two and a half days of networking, sharing research results, project outcomes and swapping good stories, almost 200 NSDL partners and projects said goodbye and headed home from Washington D.C. on October 2 to continue building NSDL’s capacity as a national platform for cyberlearning. Presentations will be downloadable from the Annual Meeting Full Schedule Overview as they become available over the next few weeks. A list of attendees, poster abstracts, and other materials may be found here.
Top left to right: NSDL Resource Center Director Kaye Howe addresses participants; 2008 Annual Meeting Chair Sarah Holsted reads Haiku while 2009 Annual Meeting Chair Susan Jesuroga listens; attendees discuss 2009 Annual Meeting priorities.
NSF NSDL Program Director Lee Zia has traditionally shared Haiku written especially to echo some of the meeting themes to mark the end of each year’s NSDL Annual Meeting. This year’s collection was penned by members of the NSDL community and delivered by Sarah Holsted, NSDL Annual Meeting 2008 Chair:
CHANGE
Stage Two Proposal
Induces insane review;
CSERD marches on.
–Bob Panoff
From the red embers
of Core Dis-Integration,
what Phoenix rises?
–James Blake
PROCESS
Verification
Validation of science
Accreditation.
–Bob Panoff
Deadlines pass quickly
Networked angel nags online
Holsted saves again
–Sherry Hsi
DATA
Three million page views
Month after month after month
Computational.
–Bob Panoff
Sifting though content
Endless searches return piles
Metadata please
–Sherry Hsi
Metrics waft like snow
Whipped about by unknown souls
While I shovel the path
–Bob Donahue
TRANSITION & FUTURE
Monkeys, monkeys run!
Through the jungle laptops come
Swinging in rhythm
–Sherry Hsi
Cheers! (A Haiku in Appreciation of Lee Zia)
Up late… idea:
Transform STEM world-online… To
Do: NSDL!
–Sarah Holsted
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