Students benefit from research experiences for their teachers
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. Once teachers feel fully part of a research-centric science community, they are in a better position to invite students into their own home. How do you quantify that intuition…how do you measure student the extent to which students have been effectively invited into science (or more broadly into STEM community)? That’s a diffi

Back from Bahrain
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 did manage to grab a few images, posted below. More soon.

The education project in…
The education project in Bahrain. I’m on my way and I will blog about it as I can. It should be a great conference. I will post pictures. This is a conference on global education and it should be a lot of fun. Powered by . Mp3 [audio http://dial2do.com/1yl4onwv.mp3 ]

lunar landscape by cell phone
Moon thru cell, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. The moon was lovely tonight. Having missed the astronomy party on ND’s north quad–can’t do everything–I pulled out the 8″ dobsonian with my daughter, and we tried our hands at capturing the moon through cell phone cameras. Pretty fun stuff. Jupiter and its moons we

Subscribing to NDeRC blogs
The obvious purpose of blogging is to share your experiences with others. You can wait until others wander into your blog, but a more efficient system is to get others to subscribe to your blog. Since turnabout is fair play, you ought to consider subscribing to their blogs, as well. You can subscribe to NDeRC blogs via RSS feed, and if you know what that is you probably don’t need a “how to” on subscribing. But subscribing by email is another good way to gain notification and easy access to other peoples blogs. Below is a screencast reviewing how to bulk subcribe to NDeRC blogs, for those who have NDeRC accounts. If you don’t have such an account, you can su