Ellen Hoffman Associate Professor, Educational Media

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Warming Up for Summer Digital Libraries for
Math Science

• Ellen HoffmanAssociate Professor, Educational
  Media TechnologyDirector, Center for Research
  on the Internet and SchoolsEastern Michigan
  University

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How teachers find resources

• Own search
• Talk to colleagues
• Not from media specialist?

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Media that matters

• Visualization
• Wenglinsky study/TIMMS
• Netday studies of students

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To Google or not to Google

• Do you really need 100,000 site?
• Not sorted to help educators
• But popular!

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Getting focused

• Fewer hits, fewer misses
• Digital libraries
• Education focused, age appropriate
• Higher quality developed by experts
• Range of media types
• Include services for users
• Descriptive metadata
• Management tools (e.g., personal accounts,
  combination services)

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NSDL

• http//www.nsdl.org

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NSDL Middle School Portal

• http//nsdl.enc.org/

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Hot topics as the hook

• The P.T. Barnum approach to communications
• They do listen
• Memorable
• Fun, active, current
• See the egress

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Will Discovery launch?

• NASA has many educational materials
• Return to Flight
• http//www.nasa.gov/externalflash/rtf_front/index.
  html
• Discovery Channel
• http//dsc.discovery.com/news/features/shuttle/shu
  ttle.html
• Windows to the Universe
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/

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Fireworks for July

• Fireworks
• http//www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/2005062
  9/Feature1.asp
• Science News for Kids
• http//www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

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Or other night lights?

• Fireflies
• http//iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu80/projects/FFil
  es/frame1.html
• More on birds and animals
• Animal Diversity Web
• http//animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.h
  tml

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Hot and muggy

• Tropical Twister
• http//kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/ind
  ex.html
• Exploring Earth animations
• http//www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/
  navigation/home.cfm
• UCAR Library of Digital Images
• Weather, climate, earth system
• https//www.fin.ucar.edu/ucardil/default.jsp

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Take a vacation?

• Grand Canyon Explorer
• http//www.kaibab.org/home.htm
• The whole earth catalog?
• The ultimate earth science resource for educators
  - DLESE
• http//www.dlese.org

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Go for a swim?

• Get Visual!
• Discovery Channel National Geographic
• http//dsc.discovery.com/
• http//www.nationalgeographic.com/
• Teachers Domain from PBS
• http//www.teachersdomain.org/
• Library of Congress Moving Image Collection
  (MIC)
• http//mic.loc.gov/index.php

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Sounds of summer

• Bird sound library at Cornell
• http//www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBird
  s/
• More science sounds
• We sing? http//www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE/

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Your ideas?

• Tell us about your favorite math or science Web
  sites

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Some material in this presentation courtesy of
The National Science FoundationDivision of
Undergraduate Education This material is based
upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. DUE 0435098. Any
opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are
those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science
Foundation.
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Next Steps

• Explore web sites
• http//www.emich.edu/cris/