Project Updates
Use this section to enter or view a project update for NSF-funded grants under the National STEM Distributed Learning (NSDL) program. Applies to Pathways I, Pathways II, Services, Targeted Reseach, or Small grants. Give your colleagues an overview of your project activities and development!
| Project Title | Grant Number | Target Audiences | Partners | Project Activities | Attached Image |
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| Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Pathway | DUE-0938051 | middle-school through undergraduate levels (grades 6-16) as well as to citizens through formal and informal education venues and communities | TERC, CIRES at the University of Colorado, NOAA/UCAR, National Renewal Energy Laboratory, SERC at Carleton College | The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Pathway will steward a broad collection of educational resources that facilitate students, teachers, and citizens becoming climate literate and informed about “the climate’s influence on... | 10/18/2009 - 10:27am | |
| Content Clips: A Selection, Customization, and Presentation Service | DUE-0938120 | Elementary Teachers, Curriculum Developers, Teacher Trainers | Content Clips is moving from a research project to a more integrated NSDL service. Teachers and developers can use this service to find, organize, and share multimedia objects from distributed web sites within a dynamic, visual environment (http... | 10/19/2009 - 12:44pm | ||
| DLConnect @ FSU | 0946444 | K-12 teachers, school library media specialists | Collaborative project with Utah State University | This past year was mostly invested in the mechanics of grant transfer, but the opportunity to do follow-up with PD participants and further analysis of issues that arose during time spent with participants showed that the quadrant model of the challenges... | 10/19/2009 - 12:46pm | |
| National Dissemination of PARI Digital Resources | DUE-0937824 | Middle school, high school, and university physics, chemistry and astronomy instructors and students. | Currently underway are two initiatives to ensure the continued service of Smiley (4.6m radio telescope) and the digitization of APDA photographic data. PARI has also begun working on the digital connections to the NSDL TNS system. Both... | 10/23/2009 - 1:07pm | ||
| Computational Science Education Referene Desk (CSERD): Push, Pull, Permeate, Persist | 0937910 | CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate it into the classroom. | CSERD has engaged key partners to leverage its computational science resources. Collaborations such as the SCXY Conference, TeraGrid, HPC University, Sigma Xi and Blue Waters allow CSERD to serve a wider community of educators and students. HPC University – TeraGrid and Shodor have partnered to provide a collection of accredited education and training resources on High Performance Computing. Pathways to Petascale – an ambitious, multi-scale effort to transform learning through computational thinking enabled by petascale technologies. Pathways to Supercomputing – CSERD’s three-year partnership with the SCxy committee and the National Compuational Science Institute (NCSI) will allow for the review, enhancement, and creation of objects in CSERD and NSDL occurring in summer workshops and the SCxy program from 2007-2009. Blue Waters – Shodor will have a national leadership role in teaching others to effectively harness the power of the world’s largest computer, which will be ready for use in 2011. | Shodor and its partners in CSERD continue to transform learning through computational thinking. CSERD continues to enhance its technology infrastructure and the user's experience, expand its partnerships, recruit reviewers and editors. The... | 11/03/2009 - 12:37pm | |
| Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL) | 0435198 | MathDL targets undergraduate mathematics faculty and students, high school faculty and students, and life-long learners. | The Mathematical Association of America, MathResources Inc. | The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL) is the NSDL pathway project of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). MathDL has evolved greatly since its inception as a collection funded by an NSF grant in 2000 in the first round of NSDL... | 11/04/2009 - 11:14am | |
| Materials Digital Library Pathway | DUE-0532831 | Materials undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and researchers. | A consortium initially involving NIST, Kent State University, MIT, University of Michigan, Purdue University, and Iowa State University. MatDL has begun pilot work with MRS and TMS, two important international materials professional societies. | The Materials Digital Library Pathway (MatDL) assumes stewardship of significant content and services to support materials education, research, and interactions between the two This report summarizes MatDL’s services and provides an update of... | 11/06/2009 - 11:59am | |
| Teachers' Domain Pathways Stage II | DUE 0840737 | K-12 teachers and students, post-secondary faculty and students, parents, informal educators | WGBH EDC Center for Children and Technology WNET WPSU KQED Iowa PTV | Normal 0 0 1 1293 7372 WGBH 61 14 9053 11.1282 0 0 0 Our work on the Teachers’ Domain Pathway over the past year has focused on several major activities: 1. Research and piloting... | 11/09/2009 - 6:32pm | |
| Pedagogic Services for Digital Libraries | DUE-0532768 | Digital Libraries, Curriculum Development Projects, Centers of Teaching and Learning | CAUSE, ComPADRE, MERLOT, PKAL, ERESE, National Numeracy Network, and others. For a complete list of 17 partners see http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/service/partners.html | The Pedagogic Service library of pedagogic methods and examples of their use in classrooms now contains 46 modules and 813 activites. These can be viewed at http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/index.htmlPedagogic Portals have been or are being created... | 11/09/2009 - 6:34pm | |
| The Biodiversity Analysis Pipeline | 0734857 | K-12 students; undergraduates; graduate students; teachers; citizen scientists; researchers; resource managers | We have partnered with the Crossing Boundaries project (http://crossingboundariesproject.org/) which uses Science Pipes as one tool that secondary teachers and students use to analyze biodiversity conservation issues in their local or regional... | 11/10/2009 - 7:53am | ||
| SMILE Pathway | 0735007 | The Science and Math Informal Learning Educators (SMILE) Pathway - HOWTOSMILE.ORGSMILE PATHWAY UPDATENovember 2009 Advisory MeetingIn December 2008, we held the 1st SMILE advisory meeting at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) in Berkeley, CA. SMILE... | 11/10/2009 - 12:04pm | |||
| Quantitative Social Science Digital Library | DUE - 0840642 | Instructors in undergraduate social science courses | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; Social Science Data Analysis Network; Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College; Association of American Geographers; American Economic Association Committee on Economics Education; American Political Science Association; American Sociological Association | In October, we launched TeachingWithData.org, a website providing educational materials designed to improve quantitative literacy skills in social science courses. The past year has been spent designing the website and the repository behind it,... | 11/10/2009 - 3:48pm | |
| ChemEd Digital Library: An NSDL Pathway for Chemical Sciences Education | 0632303 | Middle school, high school, college-university chemistry teachers and students; parents; home schoolers; general public. | Journal of Chemical Education; American Chemical Society; ChemCollective Project | This report summarizes all activities of the ChemEd DL during its three years as a Pathway in the NSDL. The main headings are the same as the headings in reports to the NSF. Major Research and Education Activities Technical Developments. We have... | 11/11/2009 - 1:45pm | |
| BEN – Biological Sciences Pathway | 0532797 | Biological sciences faculty in higher education institutions (including professional schools) and biological sciences educators in middle and high schools | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)*, AAAS Science’s STKE (now Science Signaling)*, AAAS Science Online, American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS)*, American Physiological Society(APS)* American Phytopathological Society (APSNet), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)*, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), American Society for Microbiology (ASM)*, American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG), Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), Bio-Link (the NSF Advanced Technological Education Center for Biotechnology), Biotechnology Institute, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium (BCC)*, Botanical Society of America (BSA), Dolan DNA Learning Center, Ecological Society of America (ESA)*, Entomology Digital Library (EntDL), Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience(FUN), Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), National Association of Health Sciences Education Partners (NAHSEP), National Health Museum-Access Excellence*, Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Society of Toxicology (SOT)* and Video and Image Data Access (VIDA) for Science Inquiry During Teacher Preparation (*Denotes founding BEN Collaborators) | A. Goals and Objectives The BEN Pathway serves as a catalyst for professional societies or coalitions that seek to foster a change in biological sciences teaching in higher education institutions and middle and high schools, including changes in pedagogy... | 11/11/2009 - 11:18pm | |
| Engineering Pathway | 0532808 | Kindergarten through Higher Education | ACM-Women, Advances in Engineering Education (AEE), Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC), Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES), Engineers and Business for Sustainability (EBS), National Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (NCWIT), Peer Reviewed Research Offering Validation of Effective and Innovative Teaching (PR2OVE-IT), Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM) | Engineering Pathway (EP), the engineering education wing of the NSDL, focused this year on updating, expanding and creating services – News and Events, Search Appliance, Collections, Annotated Textbooks, Memberships and Sponsorships – to support our... | 11/12/2009 - 10:52pm | |
| Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) | NSF provided funding for the initial development of DLESE, now operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on behalf of the education community. | K12 teachers and students, undergraduate and graduate educators and students, curriculum developers, teacher trainers | NCAR Library, NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, and Digital Learning Sciences at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) operate DLESE. Numerous community partners contribute resources and collections to DLESE. | Celebrating 10 years of service to the community, DLESE provides access to high quality collections and services. Following substantial funding from NSF, DLESE established a sustainability model to continue these important services to the community of... | 11/13/2009 - 6:37pm | |
| The Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER) | 0840764 | Community and Technical College Educators, Staff and Students | NSF ATE (Advanced Technological Education) Projects and Centers; AACC (American Association of Community Colleges); AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges); NISOD (National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development); MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) | AMSER Project Highlights 2009:AMSER (http://amser.org) is a collaborative NSDL Pathways project designed to help meet the needs of community and technical colleges and forge a link between these communities and NSDL. AMSER, which first received... | 11/16/2009 - 3:49pm | |
| ComPADRE Pathway | 0532798 | The ComPADRE Pathway serves students, teachers, college faculty, and the general public with a need for physics and astronomy education resources. The pathway is divided into collections (currently 16) focused on the needs of a particular community of users, from middle- and high-school teachers, to faculty teaching advanced undergraduate laboratories, to independent learners. | Each ComPADRE collection has one or more editors involved in its organization, content, and connection to the community served. These editors are the backbone of ComPADRE and crucial to the project's continuing growth. The ComPADRE project is itself a collaboration of three professional societies, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society, and the Society of Physics Students, part of the American Institute of Physics. The participation of the societies is vital for connections to the ongoing efforts in physics education. Collaborations with other physics, astronomy, and science education projects are vital for our progress. Other ComPADRE collaborators include: the Open Source Physics project that edits a ComPADRE Collection for simulation-based curricular materials; SERC supporting the creation and hosting of the pedagogical context for educational resources found in ComPADRE; MERLOT using Federated Search for sharing resources and resource annotations; members of the European Physical Society, collaborating on annual reviews of educational multimedia; the Physics Teacher Resource Agents, a 25 year mentoring effort for high school and middle school teachers; the Paradigms project disseminating cutting-edge pedagogical resources in upper division physics; the Astrophysics Data System abstract service using ComPADRE's Federated Search service; and the PER Topical Group which is responsible for a community portal to bring research-validated educational resources into the library. | The fourth year of this Pathway project has focused on expanding the services provided through ComPADRE, particularly in collaboration with others, and the development of better tools for placing teaching materials in context. Major project activities... | 11/17/2009 - 12:49am | |
| Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) | DUE-0840824 | Middle-grades teachers and students, school administrators, staff developers, curriculum developers/coordinators, library and media specialists, technology coordinators, pre-service teachers and faculty, informal educators, researchers, STEM professionals. | The following organizations have provided/are providing additional support for the MSP2 project: 1. Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio (ITSCO) provided instruction for the Advisory Board members at its February, 2009 meeting. David Hayward, Project Manager for Multimedia, led a session providing an overview of the development of Web 2.0 technologies. 2. Curriki is supporting MSP2 by adding content from MSP2, NMSA, EDC, and other NSDL projects to the Curriki site. 3. South End Technology Center (SETC), a community technology center in Boston's South End, is our partner site in the youth web design team activities. SETC is a collaborative venture between the Tent City Corporation (TCC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Its fundamental purpose is to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas and information. SETC provides free or low-cost access and training in most aspects of computer-related technology. The staff, mostly volunteers, has extensive backgrounds in computer technology and their applications. 4. Learn Central/Elluminate has provided a free Elluminate in which to hold project webinars. | The Ohio State University College of Education (OSU), the National Middle School Association (NMSA), and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), are developing the NSDL’s Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways project. The goal of MSP2... | 11/17/2009 - 10:14am |