Digital Libraries: What can they do for you? Cathy Manduca Iowa State, 2005

Digital Libraries Building on the tradition of libraries as a community resource Collecting, organizing, preserving Sharing Services for Users A Community Center Providing a Meeting Place

National Science Digital Library - nsdl.org Easy access to reviewed educational resources and the tools and other services needed to effectively use these resources Student-friendly access to scientific data to support learning by direct experience with the methods and processes of inquiry Support for a new, integrated community addressing the full spectrum of SMET education

What’s can I find? Ideas for activities/materials Information on teaching methods Entre to topic or area Searchable data? Showcase for your work: a venue for the unpublishable

Examples from SERC serc.carleton.edu

Teaching Notes and Tips Teaching Materials Assessment Learning goals Context Teaching Notes and Tips Teaching Materials Assessment References and Resources Ready to Use Teaching Activities

Linking Pedagogy and Content on the Web http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo

What You Need to Succeed Why Use? How? Examples References

A Point of Entry: Content

A Point of Entry: Pedagogy

Sharing Data for Educational Use Discovery Sharing Data for Educational Use Review Criteria for Effective Educational Use Students can Reliably find and access data easily Ascertain quality of data Manipulate data to answer questions Find information on relevance

What’s can I find? A new kind of resource for sharing about teaching Provide ideas Information on teaching methods Entre to topic or area Searchable data? Showcase your work: a venue for the unpublishable A new kind of resource for sharing about teaching

Resources serc.carleton.edu merlot.org nsdl.org