NSDL Progam Monitoring Support

Posted Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:31pm by eileen

The following information was prepared in Fall 2009 in response to a series of questions posed by the National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), as background for an NSDL Committee of Visitors meeting at NSF, in December 2009.  NSDL provided a response to NSF (NSDL Monitoring and Dissemination Report), with the following detail of chronological dissemination and evaluation activities between 2002 and 2009.  

Two additional presentations have been added for 2009 and 2010 under 2.4 Dissemination of Project Results. 

For more information on current NSDL work (2011-2013), see Repositioning NSDL for Next Generation project site

 

I. Program Monitoring and Evaluation

1.1 Efforts prior to FY 2005: Building the Library 

1.2 Efforts FY 2005-2008: Building an Audience; Building a Network

1.3 Building Capacity for Project Evaluation

1.4 Activities, Future Plans: Building NSDL Impact

II. Publication and Dissemination Efforts

2.1 Promotion of Program

2.2 NSDL Leadership Activities

2.3 NSDL PI Meetings

2.4 Dissemination of Project Results: Educational Resource Contextualization

2.5 Dissemination of Project Results: Articles/Reports Highlighting NSDL Efforts

2.6 NSDL Selected Professional Development Workshops and Outreach, 2005 - 2009

 

I. Program Monitoring & Evaluation


1.1 Efforts prior to FY2005: Building the Library

  • Selected outreach activities 2002 - 2003:
    • American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2002 included an interactive demonstration featuring seven NSDL projects given to the Advanced Learning Technologies Special Interest Group.
    • ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2002 included technical sessions and panels devoted to NSDL and NSDL projects.
    • Web Wise 2002, a digital library conference sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, featured NSDL.
    • JCDL 2003 featured NSDL projects and all NSDL Standing Committees were represented in poster sessions.
    • AERA 2003 included a panel discussion of NSDL as an emerging infrastructure for innovations in science education.
    • AAAS 2003 -  American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting also included an NSDL panel presentation on the role of digital libraries in enhancing science education
    • NSTA 2003 - National Science Teachers Association annual meeting included an NSDL workshop.
  • October 2002: Publisher workshop, sponsored by the NSDL Sustainability Standing Committee, and held at Columbia University. Representatives from educational publishing firms and NSDL projects discussed the vision and activities of NSDL and the needs and culture of publishers. Potential NSDL-publisher partnership models were detailed and discussed, providing a foundation for NSDL collaboration with the scholarly publishing sector.
  • October, 2003: The NSDL Evaluation Workshop - Developing a Strategy for Evaluating the Educational Impact of NSDL
  • November, 2003: Sustainability workshop, sponsored by the NSDL Sustainability Standing Committee, and held at NSF. The workshop began the process of examining sustainability options for NSDL and NSDL projects. 40 participants included representatives from government, higher education, libraries and museums, and scholarly publishing sectors.
  • 2004: Reusable Learning Project - hosted four workshops during 2004. 90 participants learned about methods for creation and management of content for reuse and repurposing.
  • June 14-15, 2004: The NSF/NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages, National Science Foundation. 40 participants from stakeholder communities in industry, scholarly publishing, research, and academia. Disciplines represented included biology, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, mathematics, physics. The group identified opportunities and challenges for markup languages across domains, and discussed process and format issues.
  • February 6-8, 2004: NSF/NSDL Workshop: Participant Interaction in Digital Libraries (PIDL), Philadelphia, PA - 34 NSDL community participants gathered to develop strategies and formulate recommendations to help NSDL projects incorporate, support, and grow their respective digital library communities.
  • September 2005: NSDL's Director of Education and Outreach Susan Van Gundy presented an introduction to digital libraries and NSDL as part of a live 'webinar' offered through the professional online education provider Innovative Educators.  Learning Objects and Digital Libraries: New Resources for Educators was a two-hour online seminar targeting college and university faculty. Participating sites from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand were registered for the event, or able to view the webinar asynchronously. (Served as a model for the later development of NSDL/NSTA sponsored web seminars).
  • NSDL Annual Reports to the Community:
    • 2004 Annual Report: Highlighting Successful Strategies for Growth. Full Version [Pages 1-28, .pdf, 1.4 MB]. Explores applied educational achievements as leverage points for sustaining growth.
    • Progress Report: Fall 2000-Summer 2003.  PART 1 [Pages 1-10, .pdf, 8.2 MB]; PART 2 [Pages 11-24, .pdf, 8 MB]; PART 3 [Pages 25-32, .pdf, 800 KB]. Highlights historic milestones and summarizes initial growth and development of the Library.
  • NSDL Annual Grant Reports to NSF: Grant #0424671 Collaborative Project: Leading NSDL Towards Long-Term Success - 2003, 2004, 2005.
  • NSDL Reflections project - DUE Grant #0737821: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?  Learning the Lessons and Disseminating Exemplary Practices from the Projects of the NSDL ; Flora McMartin, PI; Mimi Recker, Brandon Murumatsu, Susan Jesuroga co-PIs
  • Educational Impact and Evaluation Standing Committee (EIESC). The EIESC existed from 2000 - 2008. All NSDL Standing Committees were sunsetted as of October 1, 2008, with the transition to Technical Network Services and Resource Center grant awards for management of the library.

 

1.2 Efforts During FY 2005-2008: Building an Audience, Building a Network

  • NSDL Annual Reports to the Community (published reports distributed in conjunction with the NSDL Annual Meeting, 2003 - 2006)
    • 2006 Annual Report: Leveraging Collaborative Networks   Full Version [Pages 1-19, .pdf, 1.72 MB]. Highlights the multiple roles that NSDL plays in support of STEM education, serving as resource repository, provider of services and tools, education and outreach source, locus of digital library research, and as a scaffold for collaboration - building and expanding partnerships and collaborative opportunities nationwide.  
    • 2005 Annual Report: Examining NSDL's Impact    Full Version [Pages 1-36, .pdf, 2 MB]. Profiles NSDL as a key piece of national educational infrastructure at work in classrooms and communities addressing the need to prepare a STEM workforce for the future.
  • NSDL Reflections - (DUE Grant #0737821: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?  Learning the Lessons and Disseminating Exemplary Practices from the Projects of the NSDL; Flora McMartin, PI; Mimi Recker, Brandon Murumatsu, Susan Jesuroga co-PIs.
  • NSDL Annual Grant Reports to NSF:
    • Grant #0424671 - Collaborative Project: NSDL Core Integration: Leading NSDL Towards Long-Term Success
    • Grant #0733600 - Increasing Capacity and Engagement
    • Grant #0554440 - Teacher Professional Continuum: Digital Libraries Go to School
    • Grant #0840859 - NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts (Resource Center)
  • Also see Section 2.6 below, NSDL Professional Development Workshops and Outreach, 2005 - 2009

 

1.3 Building Capacity for Project Evaluation

  • 2006:  
    • An Introduction to NSDL Webmetrics, Michael Khoo, NSDL Core Integration. Some of the basic issues involved in NSDL's webmetrics activities, including which tools to use, and who to count, what to count them doing, and when to count it.
    • Survey of NSDL Users - Summary, Michael Khoo, NSDL Core Integration. 167 NSDL users were polled online and on paper, with 80%-90% of respondents replying that use of NSDL had positively impacted their educational and research practices.
    • Faculty Participation in the NSDL, Alan Wolf, Flora McMartin, Cathy Manduca, and Glenda Morgan. What are higher education instructors looking for in digital libraries, and how do they look for it? What barriers to they encounter? In a national study of higher education faculty, we have been determining the materials and services that instructors are seeking, and examining under what circumstances they would like them.
    • Evaluation Practices in NSDL, Laura Bartolo (NSDL Evaluation and Educational Impact Standing Committee - EIESC), Anne Diekema (EIESC), Michael Khoo (NSDL Core Integration), and Flora McMartin (EIESC). NSDL projects describe their evaluation work, and the barriers they faced when implementing their evaluation plans. While NSDL projects have good evaluation intentions, many still experience difficulty in carrying out evaluation, and the report recommends ongoing evaluation capacity building within NSDL.
    • Usability: "Results, not Features",  Michael Khoo, NSDL Core Integration. User testing of the NSDL search results page suggests that NSDL users want to locate and sort their search results quickly and efficiently, and not be distracted by too many features.
    • Resource Creation and Review Processes in NSDL, Michael Khoo, NSDL Core Integration. NSDL projects were asked about the processes by which they assured the quality of the resources in their collections, and also about the extent to which NSDL had supported them in these activities. As part of the survey, several NSDL projects submitted their resource creation/review rubrics to share with the rest of the NSDL community, and recommendations from the survey analysis included (and were implemented) development of more coherent, easy-to-use documentation and guidelines to cover workflows, activities, practices, standards, etc. associated with resource creation and review and collection building; and that additional means of support be provided through FAQs, tutorials, published reserach, lists of resources, help systems, etc.
  • 2008: Educational Impact and Evaluation Standing Committee activities 2005-2008

 

1.4 Activities and Future Plans for Program Monitoring and Evaluation: Building NSDL Impact

Additional community reporting:

  • 2009 - May 7, 2009: NSDL Brown Bag: Report to the Community.  NSDL Resource Center Director and PI Kaye Howe and NSDL Technical Network Services PI Tamara Sumner provided a recap of NSDL PI team reverse site visit and presentations to the NSF's Education and Human Resources directorate personnel, and discussion of the role of NSDL with respect to the NSF report: Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge. (See additional info at http://nsdl.org/pd/?pager=brownbag)
  • 2009  -  March 5, 2009: NSDL TNS Brown Bag: Tools You Can Use. NSDL's Technical Network Services team provided an overview of the suite of open-source tools and support services for the STEM education community, including the Strand Map Service (SMS), Collection System (NCS), and Digital Discovery System (DDS).

Evaluation activities

  • Monthly Omniture web metrics reports, NSDL.org and related sites, through December 2009. In 2009, NSDL transitioned from using the Omniture web metrics software to use of Google Analytics on NSDL web sites. Monthly reporting of web metrics is in transition from TNS to the Resource Center and monthly reporting is resuming in Fall 2010, and will be reported on the NSDL Community site Evaluation pages. 

 

II. Publications and Dissemination Efforts

2.1 Promotion of Program

Also see Dissemination section below - Educational Resource Contextualization

2.2 NSDL Leadership Activities

  • Kaye Howe, PI, NSDL Resource Center
    • January 2007: Keynote address, 2nd International Open Repositories Conference, San Antonio, TX
    • May 2008: Keynote address, JA-SIG 2008
    • May 2009: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2009 invited talk: Through a Glass Darkly: The National Science Digital Library and the Journey to Educational Vision

 

Program management activities:

Joint meetings of NSDL Core Integration staff (Columbia University, Cornell University, and UCAR) occurred:

  • February 8-9, 2007, Columbia University
  • June, 2007, Cornell University
  • April 2008, Columbia University
  • November 13-14, 2008, UCAR, Boulder, CO: NSDL Technical Network Services and NSDL Resource Center joint retreat
  • April 16-17, 2009, Reverse Site Visit to National Science Foundation; Kaye Howe, Susan Van Gundy, Mary Marlino, NSDL Resource Center; Mike Wright, Tamara Sumner, Karon Kelly, Carl Lagoze, NSDL Technical Network Services

 

2.3 NSDL PI Meetings

  • Pathways Meeting, November 17, 2009 - key documents include:

                 *NSDL Collections Policy Draft

                 *NSDL Resource Quality Criteria document

                 *NSDL Collections Report: State of the Library

                 *Technical Network Services  2010 Workplan

                 *Resource Center 2010 Workplan and Response to NSF

                 *Pathways Evaluation Audit Summary

                 *Packaging and Contextualizing NSDL Collections: Resource Packs Concept Overview

                 * TNS Edupak Roadmap  - (comment invited at 2009 Annual Meeting)

                 * TNS Strand Map Service Roadmap - (comment invited at 2009 Annual Meeting)

2.4 Dissemination of Project Results: Educational Resource Contextualization

  • Curriculum Customization Service with Denver Public Schools:  Digital Learning Sciences/UCAR is developing, deploying, and evaluating a Curriculum Customization Service that transforms traditional print-based materials into concept-driven, interactive teachers’ guides. This effort is a partnership between DLS, Denver Public Schools (DPS), the American Geological Institute (AGI), and It’s About Time/Herff Jones Publishing. These online guides support curriculum planning and implementation by science teachers in the Denver Public Schools, are customizable and extensible to meet local needs, and provide targeted online professional development opportunities. The Curriculum Customization Service automates and extends the alignment between educational standards, core science concepts and learning goals, instructional materials, and formative and summative assessments. This service builds on the significant experience and existing tools and infrastructures developed by Digital Learning Sciences for the National Science Digital Library through the support of the National Science Foundation. These tools and infrastructure are based on nationally-recognized open standards, and made available through open source licenses.
  • NSDL/NSTA Web Seminars: NSDL has partnered with the National Science Teachers Association for the last three years to feature NSDL resources and professional development opportunities to K12 teachers. See additional detail in section 2.6 Professional Development and Outreach.
  • NSDL EduPak - The EduPak suite of tools and services is a key component of NSDL technology and infrastructure development.  The Edupak Roadmap document describes potential opportunities for further development of these tools - community review of this document is being sought at the upcoming NSDL Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-19, 2009.
  • NSDL Reverse Site Visit to NSF, April 2009 - NSDL PIs of the Resource Center and Technical Network Services provide project updating to National Science Foundation
  • NSDL Reverse Site Visit to NSF, April 2010 - NSDL PIs of the Resource Center and Technical Network Services provide project updating to National Science Foundation

 

2.5 Dissemination of Project Results: Articles/Reports Highlighting NSDL Efforts

  • NSDL Bibliography  - a compilation of NSDL publications, presentations, posters, web sites published by NSDL primary investigators and staff between 2000 and 2009. (Current NSDL Resource Center plans include development of a contribution mechanism for NSDL community members to add to this NSDL Bibliography in FY2010, for a comprehensive view of NSDL community projects publication and dissemination)

 

2.6 NSDL Selected Professional Development Workshops and Outreach, 2005 - 2009:

  • Aug 3-4, 2006:  An Evaluators' Working Group was formed in 2006 to explore issues for Pathways with respect to access management and the then-active Community Sign On (CSO) initiative, and a workshop convened, jointly sponsored by NSDL Core Integration and the EIESC:  Report on the NSDL Evaluators Meeting, August 3-4, 2006. Led by Sarah Giersch, Flora McMartin, and Mick Khoo, the workshop included participation by evaluators from the Pathways.
  • September 7, 2006: STEM Education Caucus Briefing on Capitol Hill, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. NSDL hosted a luncheon for the STEM Education Caucus of the United States House of Representatives, along with members of the companion Caucus in the Senate. The event was attended by approximately 60
    congress members and staff, National Science Foundation staff, and representatives from several STEM-related professional societies. Remarks were given by Representatives Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Mark Udall (D-CO), co-chairs of the House STEM Education Caucus, as well as Dr. Kathy Olson, Interim Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation. NSDL presenters included Director Dr. Kaye Howe; Dean Krafft, Core Integration Lead at Cornell University; Bruce Mason, Principal Investigtor for the comPADRE Pathways Project, and Kate Wittenberg, Core Integration Lead at Columbia University.
  • 2006: The NSDL Community Services Committee sponsored NSDL Tool Times, archived presentations on community developed tools and services. The 2006 presentation was on collaborative tool development for natural language processing and machine learning supporting the assignment of educational standards to learning materials, utilizing tools developed by Syracuse University and the Digital Library for Earth System Education. (Served as the model for current NSDL Brown Bag webinars).
  • 2006 NSDL Outreach: Conferences attended by representatives of NSDL in 2006 included:
    • Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE)
    • American Library Association (ALA)
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    • Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
    • National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
    • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
    • American Association of Museums (AAM)
    • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
    • European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)
    • Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
    • American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
    • Museums and the Web
    • WebWise
    • National Education Computing Conference (NECC)
    • MERLOT conference
    • Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) conference
    • Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)
    • School Library Journal Summit
  • May 28 - June 21, 2007:  Joint DELOS-NSDL Summer School: Digital Libraries for the Digital Librarian, Florence, Italy. Joint workshop for cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archival institutions, museums) on transitioning from traditional libraries to digital libraries. NSDL PI Kaye Howe, and Mary Marlino, Digital Learning Sciences, UCAR, participated in the program. NSDL jointly co-sponsored the one-week long DELOS-NSDL Summer School in Italy, with the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, a European Union program. The summer school addressed the common concerns of cultural heritage institutions and the challenges of digital environments and repositories.
  • 2006 - 2007: Pathways workshops. NSDL provided coordination, logistical, and financial support for each Pathway project to conduct outreach to their specific communities. Support was provided via supplemental funding to the NSDL Leading NSDL Toward Long-Term Success grant (0424761). Where available, links to specific workshop reports are provided:
  1. September 24-25, 2006:  MatDL Workshop report, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Materials Digital Library PI Laura Bartolo organized a workshop jointly hosted by MatDL and NSDL at the National Science Foundation, to explore collaborative opportunities and points of intersection between NSDL, MatDL, and the Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers (MRSECs) program of NSF. NSDL was represented by Kaye Howe, Director and PI, NSDL Core Integration, UCAR; Dean Krafft, co-PI, Cornell University; and Eileen McIlvain, Pathways Liaison, Core Integration, UCAR. Workshop information (agenda, participants, workshop report)

  2. October 6-8, 2006: Math DL/Math Gateway workshop report, Mathematics Association of America (MAA), Washington, DC. MathDL PIs Lang Moore and David Smith conducted a workshop at MAA headquarters in Washington, DC, for 20 participants to inform them of the MathDL, the Math Gateway Pathway, and the NSDL and provide them the training to further disseminate outreach on the these resources to colleagues through presentations at regional/sectional MAA meetings. Participants included high school mathematics faculty, and mathematics faculty from both 2-year and 4-year institutions. NSDL was represented by Eileen McIlvain, Pathways Liaison.

  3. December 7-10, 2006: BiosciEdNet (BEN) Pathway: BEN Scholars professional development workshop, AAAS, Washington DC.  The BEN Pathway instituted a two-year professional development program for biosciences faculty, designed to provide training in effective use of digital libraries. BEN Scholars conduct additional outreach to their colleagues and produce an inquiry-based learning object that is then contributed to the BEN Pathway. NSDL was represented by Eileen McIlvian, Pathways Liaison, Sarah Giersch, NSDL Special Projects, Mick Khoo, NSDL Evaluator. BEN Scholars 2006-2007 Formative Evaluation Report.

  4. March 3-4, 2007:  AMSER - League for Innovation Conference (community colleges). A three-hour training workshop in a conference setting was conducted on AMSER and NSDL. Participants included 28 faculty and staff in educational settings. The workshop provided 2nd tier outreach to colleages by participants on their own campuses or other settings, using AMSER training materials, presentations, and evaluation materials.  NSDL participants included Robert Payo, and Eileen McIlvain.

  5. April 23-25, 2007: CSERD - Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC. Burroughs Wellcome Fund co-sponsored (provision of workshop meeting space) with NSDL and CSERD, a two-day workshop for K12 teachers and program directors to digital libraries, featuring the resources of CSERD, NSDL, and other Pathways (Math Gateway, BEN, ChemED DL, Engineering Pathway). Participants included 22 educators and/or Student Science Enrichment Program (SSEP) Directors or staff (other-than-school activities program). NSDL participants included Eileen McIlvain and Sarah Giersch, as well as BEN Scholar Dwight Krehbiel, and MathDL PI Lang Moore. NSDL Road Reports blog: The Power of Participation

  6. June 2007:  Engineering Pathway: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2007 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. The Engineering Pathway conducted a combined online (10 participants) and face-to-face workshop (12 participants) for educators and Engineering Pathway (EP) Associate Editors, in a conference workshop setting. The workshop enabled exploration of digital libraries and DL resources and services, and provided training for EP Associate Editors. (No NSDL participants).

  7. July 5-8, 2007: ComPADRE: University Corp. for Atmospheric Research Foothills Lab, Boulder, CO. ComPADRE conducted a three and half day workshop for selected physics educators utilizing the physics modeling curriculum of the American Modeling Teachers Association. The goal of the workshop was to explore ways to develop and deliver their content via web-based systems. Participants included nine physics modeling teachers, who received orientation and training on use of a wiki as a way to organize and deliver curricular content, and explored strategies for further developing content delivery via web-based
    means, including Strand Map Service model. NSDL participants included Eileen McIlvain, Susan Van Gundy, John Weatherley.

  8. July 19-20, 2007: Teachers' Domain: WGBH, Boston, MA, conducted the NSDL/WGBH Summer Science Forum for public television representatives and
    educators. The workshop included an introduction to Teachers' Domain Pathway and NSDL services. Participants included reepresentatives from 13 PBS stations, paired with local educational partners they invited (district or school administrators, teachers, education specialists) (26 total participants). The workshop resulted in expanded partnership efforts between Teachers' Domain and other public television stations. NSDL participant: Robert Payo. Workshop report.

  9. Fall, 2007: ChemEd DLib conducted a six-week online course in the use of Moodle courseware. Participants included 25 high school or college level chemistry
    teachers, providing professional development for these faculty, and an increase in chemistry community volunteers for ChemEd DLib.

  10. October 25-26, 2007: NSDL Core Integration hosted a Pathways Workshops Debrief meeting in Boulder, CO at the NSDL/UCAR, for PIs and outreach personnel from Pathways that had completed a Pathways workshop in the preceding year. Representatives discussed the experience and outcomes of the Pathways workshops, the process, effectiveness, evaluation, and outcomes, and recommendations for the future. Participants included representatives from Teachers' Domain; CSERD, Middle School Portal; BEN; MatDL; MathDL; AMSER; Engineering Pathway; ComPADRE; and Digital Libraries Go to School project.  Pathways Workshop Debrief Meeting summary

  • 2008 Outreach conferences and/or other Pathways project meetings:
    • Jan 16, 2008 - NSF Governors' Workshop - NSDL Road Reports blog: Command Performance...
    • Feb 6-8, 2008 -   BEN Partners Meeting, AAAS; Dean Krafft, NSDL/Cornell University; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR
    • Feb 14-17, 2008 - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference - exhibit booth, K12 and Higher Ed workshops featuring Pathways; Robert Payo, Eileen McIlvain. NSDL Road Reports: AAAS 2008...
    • Feb 28-29, 2008 - SMILE Pathway project kickoff meeting; Dean Krafft, NSDL/Cornell University; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR
    • Mar 15-17, 2008 - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD); Robert Payo, NSDL/UCAR. NSDL Road Reports blog: Brain Games...
    • Mar 19-22, 2008 - NSTA Conference on Science Education, Boston, MA-workshops and exhibit booth; Robert Payo, Susan Van Gundy; NSDL Pathway representatives. NSDL Expert Voices blog: NSTA 2008...
    • Apr 1-4, 2008 - Open Repositories 2008, Southhampton, UK - NSDL Expert Voices blog: Fedora Day...
    • Jun 16-20, 2008 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. NSDL Road Reports blog: JCDL...atop
    • Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2008 - National Education Computing Conference (NECC), San Antonio, TX - shared booth with WGBH Teachers' Domain; Robert Payo. NSDL Road Reports blog: NECC....
    • Jul 9-12, 2008  -   BEN Scholars Meeting (2nd cohort), Biological Sciences Pathway (funded by AAAS); Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR
    • Jul 19-23, 2008 - American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting. NSDL Expert Voices Roadblog: AAPT...
    • Aug 14-15, 2008 - Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement PI meeting, AAAS, Washington, DC. PIs from AMSER, BEN, ChemEd DL, CSERD, ComPADRE, Engineering Pathway, MathDL, and MatDL helped to represent NSDL at the CCLI PI meeting (first NSDL presence at CCLI), staffing a resource table, answering questions, and presenting posters. NSDL Pathways Liaison Eileen McIlvain gave an NSDL overveiw presentation to attendees in the opening plenary session. 
    • Aug 28, 2008 - Boulder, CO: 1/2 day outreach for visiting librarians from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - Susan Van Gundy, Robert Payo, Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR
    • Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2008: NSDL Annual Meeting: STEM Research and Education in Action (Omni Shoreham), Washington D.C. NSDL Road Reports blog - NSDL Annual Meeting
    • Nov 2008 - SPARC-IR Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, Baltimore, MD. NSDL Road Reports blog: SPARC-IR
  • 2008-2009: Pathways workshops. A limited number of second-round Pathways workshops were able to be funded from the original supplemental funding for Pathways workshops. Those Pathways able to take advantage of the opportunity were:
  1.  June-July 2008: MatDL conducted two ReadyTalk-based web conferences for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at two university-based MRSECS: Princeton University (June 16, 2008), and Northwestern University (July 1, 2008). NSDL provided support for PI travel, training and use on the ReadyTalk platform for presenters, and support for lunch for the combined gatherings of students and faculty; some participants included those engaged in NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU program). MatDL elaborated on the use of computational tools and services in student research, such as with MatDL's MatForge, a wiki for open access development of modeling and simulation tools; its Teaching Archive for collaborative development of core undergraduate MS teaching materials; and services and content for Virtual Labs in large undergraduate introductory science courses. MatDL has engaged students in these MRSECs to utilize wiki technology in the documentation and reporting of their student-based research. In addition, NSDL provided partial travel support to Bartolo and three colleagues from Princeton, Carnegie Mellon (NSDL ChemEd PI Dave Yarron), and Washington State University, to attend the 21st International CODATA conference in Kiev, Ukraine in October 2008, further strengthening MatDL's alliances with the international professional society for materials research: TMS, the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. MatDL also reported to the NSDL community via a February Brown Bag session on multiple aspects of their work integrating research with learning.
  2. Sep 18-20, 2008 - Teachers' Domain Science Forum 2008 for eighteen science education leaders from 15 states. NSDL participation: Robert Payo, NSDL/UCAR.  Workshop report.
  3. Oct 14-15, 2008 - CSERD conducted a Professional Development Workshop for Math and Science Teachers, hosted by NSDL/CSERD and the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), for 20 4th-8th grade mathematics and science teachers in western North Carolina. 
  4. Oct 17-19, 2008 - Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Washington, DC. MathDL conducted a second professional development workshop for 25 mathematics faculty, including current and former editors with MathDL.
  • 2009 Outreach conferences and/or other Pathways project meetings:
    • Jan 30-31, 2009 - MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Science Symposium, Dearborn, MI; presentation; Robert Payo
    • Feb 3 - 5, 2009 - Middle School Portal Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) Advisory Board meeting; Ohio State University; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR.
    • Feb 12-15, 2009 - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chicago, IL. Exhibit booth, workshops with Pathways. Robert Payo, Eileen McIlvain, NSDL / UCAR
    • Mar 19-22, 2009 - National Science Teachers Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Exhibit booth, workshops, joint reception with Informal Science Educators; Robert Payo, Susan Van Gundy, Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR.
    • Jun 28 - Jul 1 2009 - National Educational Computing Conference, Washington, DC. Exhibit booth, workshops, with Teachers' Domain and Middle School Portal2 Pathways - Robert Payo, Susan Van Gundy, NSDL/UCAR
    • Jul 1- Jul 4, 2009 - Robert Noyce Scholars Conference; AAAS, Washington, DC. Workshops with Middle Scholl Portal2, CSERD; NSDL resource table; Robert Payo, Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR.
    • Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2009, Cyberlearning Tools for Climate Education: Community Needs Assessment Workshop; sponsored by NSDL/UCAR, GLOBE/UCAR, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado. Herbert Hoover Building, US Dept of Commerce. This workshop brought together approximately 60 leaders in climate science education to conduct a community needs assessment.  Susan Van Gundy, Robert Payo, NSDL/UCAR. Preliminary workshop report; workshop site and social network.
    • Oct 9 - 11, 2009, TeachingwithData Pathway Advisory Committee meeting (formerly Quantitative Social Sciences Digital Library - QSSDL); University of Michigan; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR
    • Nov 4 - 8, 2009, National Middle School Association (NMSA) 2009 conference; Indianapolis, IN. Joint exhibit booth with Middle School Portal 2; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL/UCAR; Carol Minton Morris, NSDL Cornell. NSDL Road Reports: Middle School Education, Online
    • Nov 5 - 8, 2009, American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 2009 Meeting; Charlotte, NC.  Joint exhibit booth with WGBH Teachers' Domain; Mike Luby, NSDL/UCAR

Online Professional Development Activities