Following in a long line of exhibitors over at least the past ten consecutive years, QuarkNet and NDeRC faculty, teachers, graduate fellows and undergrads–am I forgetting anyone?–participated in Saint Joseph County Public Library’s Science Alive! event earlier today. The QuarkNet/NDeRC room was full of fun: scanning electron microscopy for seeing surface structure at 9000x; cloud …

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These site volunteers in Northern Uganda are undergoing web 2.0 training: learning to access and assess information in wikipedia, posting to a wiki, getting familiar with a range of Google services (gmail, chat, docs, search, maps, etc), and exploring twitter and other social networking sites. These are users who are living in what three years …

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0122001203.jpg, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. If you haven’t had the chance, go to the Museum of Natural History on the DC Mall. Here are a few images captured by cell phone.

This is just another cool app to share–this widget is from Cooliris express. For PC and updated (10.5+) Mac users, the full application (free) is even better. Enjoy.

kate, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. Presenting at professional meetings is a regular activity of STEM graduate students, post-docs and faculty. NDeRC fellow Kate Rueff sent this image (at my request…thanks, Kate:) of her poster presentation at this year’s AAS (American Astronomical Society) meeting. NDeRC cohort 1 fellow Joe Ribaudo is also presenting at this same …

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I had a chance to listen to an interview with Jessica Jackley of Kiva last evening. Her vision for change on a world scale, one (lending) relationship at a time, is moving. Below is a seven-minute excerpt from that interview. Watch it, and then rethink the the conversation from the perspective of those changes you …

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3amigos, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. The human eye is a pretty wonderful optical detector. The beauty of this morning’s scene from the McDonald’s drive-thru line could scarcely be captured by my cell phone camera. I planned for the close-up edit, bracing my phone on the steering wheel of my car to eliminate some of the …

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NDeRC Fellow Kate Rueff and I squared off in a photo duel during a recent meeting. I think I won, posting the above image to twitter via twitpics in just a few seconds. There’s not much you can’t tweet these days. My favorite new addition is the ability to tweet your Jing screengrabs. Here’s my …

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Well, duh. Or at any rate that’s the common reaction I’ve picked up among teachers doing research over the past ten years. If you view science education as inviting students into science, then without doing research the science teacher is in the position of inviting their students to dinner at someone else’s home, in effect. …

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The Education Project in Bahrain is a project of the Bahraini Economic Development Board to identify and promulgate best practices in education. I was able to attend, learn a lot and make some excellent new contacts. I’ll provide a fuller account after I’ve caught up a bit from 5 days of travel and conferencing. I …

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