We’re all working for one another…that’s a key idea laced through the talk with the much more appealing title embedded above. It’s a thought that was on my mind this morning as I arrived at the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center to resume a host of projects I like to do and for which I am …

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Crowdmap is a new easy-to-access instance of the Ushahidi intelligent mapping software. It resides “in the cloud”: there is no software to install. Above is a screencast from an ambitious Spanish teacher in the Saint Louis area, sketching how the tool functions and how he might use it in the classroom–or rather how he expects …

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Droid Cam Moon, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. I captured this image with the camera on my Droid phone (with the help of an 8″ dobsonian telescope.) I share it in the blog mostly to restore my shattered confidence after a recent accidental post from the same phone. Technology really is wonderful. It just requires a …

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2010-07-18 21.06.53, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Family reunion…great time…couldn’t resist sharing this guy.

Embedded here are nearly 200 images taken by 41 middle school students during a four hour water source mapping project at the University of Notre Dame. A module in NISMEC’s Sensing Our World experience, the activity pre-figured the wellhead protection project spearheaded by NDeRC Fellow Carrie Rodak and high school teachers John Gensic of New …

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A trip to Fermilab is always a treat. The occasion last Friday was a small working group seeking to establish some inter-rater reliability for assessing student posters using a common rubric. This was an I2U2 exercise: Interactions in Understanding the Universe (IiUU: 2 “i”s, 2 “U”s–I2U2.) I spend some time on this acronym since I2U2 …

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Geno.typ.es (formerly Peyer Labs) brought its Cloning a Fluorescent Gene laboratory activity to campus last week. They presented the activity in two venues: the NDeRC BioEYES seminar, and a two-afternoon seminar for BioEYES high school teachers from previous cohorts (and a few others.) Above are images drawn in petri dishes with bacteria transformed with a …

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2010-06-21 11.19.04, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. More than two dozen K-12 teachers went through an introduction to Wikispaces at Notre Dame’s Jordan Hall of Science today. The introduction was provided by NDeRC Coordinator and high energy physicist Patrick Mooney. The Bioeyes.michianastem.org wiki is meant to support collaboration among members of the third cohort of BioEYES …

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2010-06-18_1324, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Yesterday I had the good fortune of watching a student’s face light up on the occasion of (what seemed to be) his first encounter with the idea of calibration. We were imaging some microstructure using AMF. (See the image above: the view on the right is top-down, and on the …

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