By Gary Silverstein and Hannah Putman While some of us are all “aTwitter” about our favorite social networking site, another website you might consider getting excited about is the freshly redesigned Informal Science Education (ISE) Online Project Monitoring System (OPMS). As many readers already know, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ISE program expects all ISE-funded … Read more
Dear CAISE Colleagues and ISE Friends, I thought you would find this bit of news amusing and/or horrifying. It is an ETS newsletter which came in the mail, and is downloadable for free from http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICPN181.pdf. Now the Educational Testing Service is a bulwark of formal education. I’m working with them regularly since they are prime … Read more
This post was written by CAISE Senior Advisor Alan Friedman and originally appeared in the CAISE newsletter in March 2008. In 1970 my wife and I made a vacation trip to England, the first time we had traveled outside the United States. I was a brand new assistant professor of physics and was sure my … Read more