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David Wetzel
David Wetzel
Science Discrepant Events and Critical Thinking: Using Surprising Phenomena to Focus Students’ Attention in Science | - http://www.suite101.com/content...
Science Discrepant Events and Critical Thinking: Using Surprising Phenomena to Focus Students’ Attention in Science |
Sample discrepant events are used to cause contradictions in students' prior knowledge and experiences in support of their better understanding of science concepts. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
David Wetzel
James Webb Space Telescope: Hubble’s Successor in Space Exploration - Decoded Science | Decoded Science - http://www.decodedscience.com/james-w...
James Webb Space Telescope: Hubble’s Successor in Space Exploration - Decoded Science | Decoded Science
David Wetzel
science news, information and theories for the interested observer - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
David Wetzel
Nile Monitor Lizards: Invasive Species in Florida Threatens Native Species | Decoded Science - http://www.decodedscience.com/nile-mo...
Nile Monitor Lizards: Invasive Species in Florida Threatens Native Species | Decoded Science
The Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus) is one of the many non-native invasive species plaguing Florida. These reptiles are a serious threat to native animal species in all state habitats. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
David Wetzel
Earth Science Teaching: Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities - http://geology.com/teacher/
Earth Science Teaching: Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities
A list of teacher resources that can easily be modified and incorporated into the earth science classroom. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
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World Opera, Collaborative Science, and Getting On The One - http://scienceblogs.com/commonk...
Rayna
Rayna
Sylwester Nowak
Dramatic Growth of Open Access (The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics); September 30, 2010 - http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010...
I like it! :) - Sylwester Nowak from Bookmarklet
Rayna
Videos from the Conference on Open Access Publishing are available http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010...
Sylwester Nowak
Does Open Access conflict with traditional publishing? « Enago Blog: Scientific Publication Help - http://www.enago.com/blog...
Rayna
Shadows on the wall: "Truth never triumphs, but its opponents eventually die" - http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010...
Mike Chelen
"The Open Citations Project is global in scope, designed to change the face of scientific publishing. It aims to make bibliographic citation links as easy to use as Web links. Its goals are three-fold: To establish OpenCitations.net, a public RDF triplestore for biomedical literature citations. (Note: In this context, a bibliographic citation is a reference within a particular citing work to another publication termed the cited work. This use of the word ‘citation’ should be clearly distinguished from the common related use of this word to indicate the cited work itself. Within this application, ‘cite’ and ‘citation’ denote the performative act of citation itself, not the target document of that citation.) To harvest the reference lists from many current and recent open access journal articles, and to convert these datasets into RDF, starting with those in UK Pubmed Central, those published by the Public Library of Science and Biomed Central, those from other publishers willing for... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet
!lker yoldas. )°(
Sylwester Nowak
David Wetzel
Scientific Method and Problem Based Learning: Using Problem Solving Techniques for Answering Science Mysteries - http://www.suite101.com/content...
Scientific Method and Problem Based Learning: Using Problem Solving Techniques for Answering Science Mysteries
Solving science problems and mysteries provided students with real world applications of the inquiry based learning. They learn to investigate the same way as scientists. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
Rayna
science3point0
As the next step in our ever continuing mission to provide all the software needed to push online science forward in one place, we are proud to announce the launch of the Science 3.0 Etherpad! The etherpad can be found here: http://www.science3point0.com/etherpa... - The pad is open to members and non members alike. The reason we ask users to...
David Wetzel
Who Killed the Electric Car – Again!: A Problem Based Learning Case Study into the Death of the EV1 - http://www.suite101.com/content...
Who Killed the Electric Car – Again!: A Problem Based Learning Case Study into the Death of the EV1
An inquiry-based analysis is the basis for an investigation into the mysterious death of an electric car, as students role play and research to find the guilty party. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet
Rayna
[Special bookmark] Open Access and Open Data links only http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010... And get ready: the very first Science 3.0 Blogging contest is on Open Access!
Rayna
Rayna
Rayna
Rayna
Chocolate… Miam! The cocoa genome in the public domain? Not really... http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010...
Rayna
Sylwester Nowak
Fwd: "Today we are announcing support for Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer, ..."Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero Everywhere - http://www.zotero.org/blog... (via http://friendfeed.com/sylwest...)
Rayna
In a Letter to Science, Donald Siegel and Philippe Baveye discuss what they call « the paper glut » we face and address suggestions to improve the reviewing system. http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010...
Sylwester Nowak
New report on access to information and open government data (Access Info Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Information Program) - http://blog.okfn.org/2010...
Sylwester Nowak
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