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 […]
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Seeing is Understanding In NSDL’s Large Hadron Simulation
Friday, September 12th, 2008 2:20 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Keeping a Digital Promise
Monday, August 18th, 2008 9:29 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
On Thursday, July 31, 2008, Digital Promise, a fund to keep America competitive in this digital century by transforming education, workforce training, and lifelong learning, was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. It is expected to be signed into law by President […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Ice and Snow, in August!
Friday, August 1st, 2008 3:35 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Issue Five of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears magazine, Water, Ice, and Snow, uses the polar regions to better understand the water cycle as well as states and changes of matter. While the weather at the beach may be steamy right now, the August issue looks at the cool blue and white of forming, moving and melting glaciers, […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Streamlined NSDL Browsing
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 9:57 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
NSDL has streamlined collection browsing at NSDL.org to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. Browse collections alphabetically or through subject gateways that include: Biological and Health Sciences; Engineering, Computing, and Technology; General Science and STEM; Geosciences; Mathematics; Physical Sciences; and Social Sciences. Within each of these broad categories, users may browse by […]
Posted in Topics: General, Health, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
NSDL Names Editors for Upcoming Issues of Classic Articles in Context
Friday, July 11th, 2008 4:46 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
A new National Science Digital Library (NSDL) scholarly publication, Classic Articles in Context (CAC), was launched in April 2008 with an atmospheric science theme: “Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays.” Each issue of Classic Articles in Context presents significant scientific questions of the Twentieth Century […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Education and NSDL: Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 3:05 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) has been a functioning digital library since 2002 when, among other developments, the Nova Scotia Drama League agreed to transfer the “NSDL.org” domain name. During the Education session at the recent Joint Conference on Digital Libraries on June 17, 2008, Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, chaired a series of […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
New Web-Based Collection of Open Source Physics Resources
Monday, June 30th, 2008 11:08 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
The Open Source Physics (OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital library are pleased to announce the creation of a new web-based collection of OSP resources. The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Technology
ComPADRE+Librarian Spread the Word About NSDL
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 4:07 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Last week in Seattle The Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division of Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference featured a presentation from NSDL’s Physics and Astromony Pathway (comPADRE) PI Bruce Mason who teamed up with NSDL’s science librarian blogger Pat Viele. Mason and Viele co-presented a poster about comPADRE, and also later at the Physics Round Table discussion where […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Science, Technology
Wikis in College Classrooms
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 7:59 am
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, a collection of essays edited (in the “Wild, Wild Wiki”) by Robert Cummings and Matt Barton, is described as, “An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom.” A look at the table of contents includes titles that range from, “Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and […]
Posted in Topics: Education, Social Studies, Technology
Blogosphere as Education Commons: NSDL’s Expert Voices
Monday, June 9th, 2008 3:32 pm
Written by: Carol Minton Morris
A peek into the dynamic and growing blogosphere at NSDL is a look into a living library packed with people, ideas, opinion, thought-provoking dialog and fascinating resources. This wealth of information contributed by NSDL communities of practice that represent multiple STEM disciplines is available to add to your summer reading list. A quick overview […]
Posted in Topics: Chemistry, Education, Health, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Posted in Topics: Education, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
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