Outreach Events

Announcements of professional development opportunities, webinars or events of interest to the NSDL network of projects, and access to presentations given at outreach events may be found here. 

Professional Development opportunities forthcoming

Stay tuned to announcements of NSDL Brown Bag webinars, and other NSDL partner offerings - or if you are sponsoring an upcoming webinar, please post it here. (Contact Eileen McIlvain for help with posting).

Educators' Professional Development Webinars from NSDL partners

K-12 Teachers:

• Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT: Free webinar from Middle School Portal 2: Math & Science Pathways, on Preventing Cyberbullying: Connecting Students, Teachers, and Parents in Digital Citizenship, in conjunction with Common Sense Media: Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/398395618
  
  
• See Teachers' Domain (WGBH) professional development offerings: both Online courses, and Teaching strategies. 

• Check out the online Webinar Archive from the NSDL Middle School Portal Math & Science Pathway (MSP2) - you can access multiple webinars on a wide variety of topics - from Interactive Notebooks, to Digital Storytelling, using Diigo, STEM Career Exploration, iPad and Apps for the Middle School, Google Apps for Educators, and more!

Student Workshop Opportunities

• K12: Summer Workshops for Students from Shodor/Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD). Full and partial financial assistance available. 

Presentations given (2011)

Peak Area Leadership in Science (PALS) - Hub Professional Development meeting - March 2, 2011: 

• The National STEM Digital Library – Tech-based Resources and Services from NSDL - Eileen McIlvain, NSDL Resource Center
  
  • Powerpoint show (.pps)
  • Handouts PDF (interactive resources, NSDL Search Google gadget (install local websites)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting 2011, Washington D.C. - Feb 18-20, 2011:

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Reliable Resources Across the Disciplines, presented Sunday, Feb. 20, 8:30 - 11:30 AM (NSDL partners symposium). Due to time limitations during the session, speakers may not have covered all of the information found in the following presentations. 

• NSDL introduction; Eileen McIlvain, NSDL Resource Center, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado
• Digital Resources for Chemistry Teachers and Students; John W. Moore, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The ComPADRE Library: Physics & Astronomy Education for Middle School through Graduate School; Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma; American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
• Math Across the Curriculum at MathDL; Lawrence (Lang) Moore, Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• BEN: A Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning Biological Sciences; John Jungck, Beloit College, BEN partner, Bioquest Curriculum Consortium
• Computational Thinking Across the Curriculum - Science at the Speed of Right; Robert M. Panoff, Shodor, Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD); National Computational Science Institute (NCSI)
• Multi-Institutional Collaborations for Materials Research and Learning; Laura Bartolo, MatDL, Kent State University