SciLinks, a service that identifies high quality online science content for classroom use. This presentation is targeted to publishers, which use the service for their readers.

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SciLinks Overview, June 23, 2009
Agenda
• Review data and utilities offered to students and to
teachers
• Teacher Support
• Professional Development
• An understanding of cost to publisher
• Will there be new features that will address ELL and
students of special needs?
• Open discussion: your concerns, questions and
comments.

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Teachers’ Assignment:
Use the Web in the classroom
• Need Content
• Need Activities
• Need Assessments
• Needs to be grade-level appropriate

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The Problem: A typical search on “Aquifers”…
yields 1,350,000
pages!

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The Problem: Adding “Lesson Plan”…
yields
140,000
pages!

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How does SciLinks work?
Publication
callout
with a
Try “Aquifers” code:
SciLinks
SS31101
logo
references
content on
the page.

6. Go to the SciLinks site and log in
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Enter code from the text
page

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SciLinks
retrieves web
pages
• Current
• Accurate
• Content-
specific

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What selection criteria are used?
Authority Scientific Inquiry
Design How Scientists
Interactivity Work
Communication/ Quality of Writing
Collaboration Resource Integration
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Other Teacher Components
•Class rosters
•Favorites
•Assignment tools
•Multiple Choice
•Short answer
•Matching
•True/False

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Components for Teachers

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What Students See

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What Students See

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What Students See

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What Students See

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What Students See

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Need support as a
teacher?

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• Professional Development equivalent of
SciLinks
• Found in selected Teacher’s Editions
• Examples of research applied in the
classroom
• Integrates reform within a resource teachers
rely upon

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Includes:
• Selections of NSTA Journal content
• Excerpts from NSTA Press materials
• Access to Science Objects
• Content available via NSTA’s web sites
• Annotated listings of convention sessions and workshops
• Annotated listings of professional development workshops and
courses offered by NSTA and its partner organizations

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New Site to be Unveiled
August 2009

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SciLinks Activity
Each month from September to June,
SciLinks logs
• Over 11 million hits (~365,000 per day)
• 2.7 million page views (~90,000 per day)
• 289,000 SciLinks viewed
• 364,000 websites viewed
• 76,500 unique visitors
• Average visit length is 4 ½ minutes

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Benefits for Publishers
• Market place requires technology
• Staffing economy and focus
• Credibility in science education: publishers
seek an edge
• Long term cost and reliability: implementing
comparable resources

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Working with editorial
• Publisher’s editors select SciLinks topics
• NSTA assigns codes, establishes book
record in database
• NSTA provides logos, sample front matter
copy
• Publisher creates design treatment for
callouts, consistent with style of
book/program
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Service Terms
• SciLinks subscriptions last 3-10 years
• Pricing is per keyword, per year
• Subscription is defined on a per book basis,
defined by student edition ISBN.
• Cost may be spread out over lifetime of
contract
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ELL or Special Needs
Students
• We don’t have a plan to meet the needs of
these students.
• Any suggestions?
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Thanks
• Questions – contact me:
Tyson Brown
703-312-9395
Tbrown@nsta.org