Pedagogic Service Project Collaborators Meeting

March 19 & 20 2007, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

Participation in this meeting was limited to invited partners only.

SERC has established partnerships with existing NSDL libraries, campus based teaching and learning centers, and digital libraries that are undergoing initial develop. These partnerships are actively engaged in developing new pedagogic service portals.

This meeting brought together most of the collaborators who are currently using and/or interested in the service. The goal of the meeting was to learn from one another so that we can be more productive as we continue to develop pedagogic service portals.

Meeting Outcomes

The meeting provided a forum for:

• the initial service project partners to demonstrate their nacent implementations.
• the new partners to discuss their implementation plans.
• participants to identify opportunities to collaborate and to re-use resources across multiple implementations.
• partners to identify common implementation challenges and solutions.
• SERC staff to receive user feedback on SERC's Content Management System.
• project support staff to discuss technical integration issues.
• participants to learn about SERC's faceted seach tool and underlying subject vocabularies.
• SERC staff to discuss the long term vision for the service and sustainability issues.
• partners to initiate discussions about common quality assurance challenges and to collaboratively plan review criteria and solutions.
• participants to map out plans for two cross-cutting activity collections focusing on graphing and exponential functions.
• partners to plan further steps in the implementation process.

Meeting Facilitators

• Cathryn Manduca, Director, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College
• Sean Fox, Technical Director, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College

This meeting is part of the Pedagogic Service Project with funding provided by a grant (DUE-0532768) from the National Science Foundation.