Concept Browsing with NSDL Science Literacy Maps

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: K12 Teachers and interested NSDL community members
Presenter: Ted Willard, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The session covers background to the NSDL Science Literacy Maps, how to navigate and use the maps, find resources, as well suggestions on how to choose and use resources for effective instruction.

Getting at Effective Assessment Aligned to Science Learning Goals

Date: September 28, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: K12 Teachers and interested NSDL community members
Presenter: Cari F. Herrmann Abell, American Association for the Advancement of Science

This session provided background and demonstration of AAAS' new Assessment site, providing valuable help to teachers for testing and assessment of student conceptual understanding and misconceptions, in life science, physical science, earth science, and the nature of science, aligned to learning goals.

Concept Browsing with NSDL Science Literacy Maps

Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: K12 Teachers and interested NSDL community members
Presenter: Ted Willard, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

This session covered the origins and background of the Science Literacy Maps, including how to read the maps in the print version as well as how to navigate through the online NSDL Science Literacy Maps, find resources, and use maps and benchmarks in curriculum planning and preparation.

Learning Application Readiness (LAR)

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community members
Presenter: Katy Ginger

The session explained the concept of Learning Application Readiness (LAR)---the evolving NSDL approach for addressing how educational resources, collections, and their related metadata are aligned to educational goals, curriculum, or professional development needs of users, and how readily those resources and collections can be embedded in tools and services that educators and students use. This approach requires attention to curation, availability, and correct use of metadata fields to enable programmatic embedding. Targeted to attendees of a May 2011 LAR workshop, the session provides good background for all on LAR as a set of criteria applied to collection development, curation, and management.

Contributing Paradata (Usage Data) to the NSDL

Date: Monday, April 25, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: those interested in contributing paradata to NSDL in support of the STEM Exchange/Learning Registry collaborative pilot project
Presenters: Katy Ginger, Susan Van Gundy, Jonathan Ostwald

This session presented an update of the STEM Exchange and Learning Registry initiatives, and explained the newly developed NSDL paradata (usage data) metadata format, to facilitate exchange of paradata by practitioner communities within and across multiple user platforms and/or interfaces.

Introducing the Free Agent Learner and Teacher - Are You Ready for These New Users? Part 2: What Does This Mean for Your Project?

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow

This special two-part series of webinars for the NSDL network of projects examines characteristics of the Free Agent Learner, and the newly emerging Free Agent Teacher profiles, informed by data from Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up! surveys of learners, teachers, administrators, and parents.

Part 2 What Does This Mean for Your Project? will explore how NSDL projects are currently meeting the user demands using traditional outreach approaches, and how these strategies align (or not) with the new profiles of the Free Agent Learner and Free Agent Teacher. The session will also engage in discussion of potential new strategies based on Speak Up! survey data analysis and trends, and the implications for attracting, retaining, and growing the user bases of NSDL providers.

Request an invitation to this March 3 Brown Bag event, using "March 3 Brown Bag invitation request" as your subject line.

Introducing the Free Agent Learner and Teacher - Are You Ready for These New Users? Part 1: What Do We Know?

Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow

Utilizing Speak Up! survey data from 2009, Evans described the emerging profiles of the _Free Agent Learner and Teacher, _their attitudes and aspirations for accessing and using digital content, both within and outside of the classroom, and laid groundwork for Part 2 of the series: how these trends can inform outreach strategies for NSDL projects.

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Learning About Your Digital Collection From Users

Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community and others
Presenter: Flora McMartin (Broad-based Knowledge LLC); Glenda Morgan (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign); and Josh Morrill (Morrill Solutions)

NSDL community members McMartin, Morgan, and Morrill provide an overview and tips for adaptation and administration of their NSDL User Survey instrument, designed to help digital collection developers understand the use of their online collections, and the characteristics and preferences of their users. Developed through large scale tests on various NSDL Pathways projects as well as in campus and disciplinary settings, the survey instrument can be modified to meet the unique needs of those who provide and support digital collections. Managers of digital collections, repositories, and libraries can use survey results to learn how their users think about a collection, and the features that users view as critical or important. Results also provide insight into how users value the contents of a collection and their perceptions of what constitutes high quality in digital learning resources.

New Projects & Annual Meeting Orientation

Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Staff from NSDL's Resource Center (RC) and Technical Network Services (TNS)

Program presented information on the variety of services available from the RC and TNS, from technical infrastructure and library-building tools and services, to partnership and collaborative opportunities, outreach, professional development, websites, and Annual Meeting 2010 orientation. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

Framing NSDL for the Future

Date: September 23, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Staff from NSDL's Resource Center (RC) and Technical Network Services (TNS)

Provided a community update on a current process of compiling community input for framing NSDL's future. Begun at the NSDL reverse site visit to the National Science Foundation in April 2010, NSDL staff were asked by NSF to provide recommendations on NSDL's role in the STEM cyberinfrastructure landscape going forward. This process continued with substantial work conducted at the August 4-5, 2010 Pathways PIs meeting. A developing draft of recommendations from these interactions is underway; additional input will be solicited at the November Annual Meeting, with the goal of producing a report to NSF, leveraging the strength of the NSDL community and its many aspects to an even more effective program. TNS and RC staff also provided overviews of priority work goals for the coming year. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

NSDL Pedagogical Service

Date: April 4, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Cathy Manduca, Ph.D., Director of the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College

Cathy demonstrated the SERC-developed Pedagogic Service modules that disseminate and enable linking of specific teaching methods to examples demonstrating the use of teaching materials and methods for digital libraries, campus centers for teaching and learning, other NSF-funded projects (e.g. TUES), and other educational projects and professional societies, with a focus on sound pedagogical practice. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

School Librarians: An NSDL Trends Report

Date: February 17, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Marcia Mardis, Ed.D, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Partnerships Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center, College of Communication and Information, Florida State University

Mardis provided an informative summary of current issues, needs and trends among K12 school librarians, with additional discussion on how the NSDL community might effectively improve outreach and interactions with these critical influencers of the use of digital resources in K12 classrooms. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

Annual Meeting 2009 Orientation

Date: Nov. 9, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Staff from NSDL's Resource Center (RC) and Technical Network Services (TNS) program

Presented information on services available from the RC and TNS, from technical infrastructure and library-building tools and services, to partnership and collaborative opportunities, outreach, professional development, websites, and Annual Meeting 2009 orientation. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

LectureTools Demonstration

Date: August 12, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: NSDL community
Presenter: Perry Samson, Ph.D., Associate Chair, Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan

Samson demonstrated the free, powerful, web-based Lecture Tools application, developed at University of Michigan. Lecture Tools is designed for use in large, introductory lecture courses, can be adapted to distance-learning opportunities, and is a valuable tool for instructors, providing feedback on student use and engagement with the system, as well. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

Google Analytics - Making Metrics Make Sense

Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: K-12 educators
Presenter: Jonathan Weber, Web Analyst with LunaMetrics, LLC, a Google Analytics-authorizes consulting firm, based in Pittsburgh, PA

Overview of Google Analytics (GA) capabilities for project metrics collection and analysis including how GA works, tracking traffic, keywords, and referring sites; on-site search by visitors; measuring outbound link exits; advanced segments and segments vs. filters, user-defined segments, and multiple site reporting and roll-up/breakdown. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

WGBH Teachers' Domain: How to Use Rich Digital Media to Impact Science Teaching and Learning

Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: K-12 educators
Presenter: Daniella Quiñones, Marketing Coordinator for Teachers' Domain

Learn how to access, download and integrate rich STEM digital media from WGBH's Teachers' Domain. Find ways to include materials from public television's NOVA, Frontline, and Design Squad, into your curriculum using free, standards-based resources. Listen to the archived recording of this session..

Spicing Up Your Teaching With Resources from the ChemEd Digital Library

Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: Educators of grades 6-12
Presenters: John Moore, W. T. Lippincott Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dr. Lynn Diener, Assistant Professor at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI

Is it your first time ever teaching chemistry? Maybe you just want to spice up your chemistry class next semester. The Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) holds the resources and ideas to help you design an innovative and educational chemistry class or make your class even more exciting for your students. Listen to the archived recording of this session.

Enhancing and Sharing Lessons Using The Physics Front Digital Library Collection

Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Audience: Educators for grades 5-12
Presenter: Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of South Dakota.

Brush up and invigorate your teaching with resources from the Physics Front online collection of resources for teaching physics and physical science at all grade levels K-12. We'll explore some of the resources, simulations, interactives, images, and teacher materials available for free to teachers and how to maximize their use in the classroom. Listen to the archived recording of this session.

May 7, 2009: NSDL 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 managers' visit and presentations to the National Science Foundation'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. The complete set of NSDL presentations utilized in the NSF site visit are available below:

• Introduction
• NSDL Resource Center
• NSDL Technical Network Services

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).

Presenters: Sharon Clark, Kathryn Ginger, John Weatherley, and Mike Wright. Additional inquiries about NSDL tools and duppoty services may be sent to NSDL support.

February 5, 2009: Supporting Connections Between Research and Learning - Materials Digital Library (MatDL)

Historical overview and current view of MatDL applications and activities supporting materials science undergraduate research utiilzing Web 2.0 tools.

Presenters: Professor Laura Bartolo, Principal Investigator of the National Science Digital Library's Materials Digital Library Pathway (MatDL); Dr. James Warren, Director of the Center for Theoretical & Computational Materials Science at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Prof. R. Edwin Garcia, Asst. Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University.

December 11, 2008: Middle School - What Do We Know?

Current activities and issues regarding middle school education, the needs of middle school students and teachers, and plans for the Middle School Portal Math and Science Pathway (MSP)2.

Presenters: Mary Henton, Director of Integrated Media Initiatives, National Middle School Association and Dr. Kim Lightle, Director of the Digital Libraries at Ohio State University

November 26, 2008: Contributing Content to NSDL on iTunes U.

An overview of how to participate in contributing multimedia content to NSDL on iTunes U.

Presenter: Susan Van Gundy, Deputy Director of the NSDL Resource Center