NISE Network Blog
NanoDays Training for Museum Education Newbies
March 2, 2010
Vrylena Olney
If you're a researcher, there's a big difference between talking about nano with fellow classmates, colleagues, or professors, and talking about nano with hundreds of Museum of Science visitors on a Saturday afternoon. NanoDays at our institution generally means lots...
Real World Nano: Why does nano matter? Surface area.
February 15, 2010
Clark Miller, Arizona State University
Thanks, everyone, for your great comments to the first RWN post! Keep 'em coming. I'll respond there and in future posts. The question for today is: why does nano matter? At the 2009 NISE Net annual meeting, evaluators noted that...
Broader Impacts - A Provocative New Look
February 9, 2010
Carol Lynn Alpert
NSF's Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC) gets a provocative re-examination in a special issue of the British journal Social Epistemology , and in that issue, the NISE Net's focus on science museum - research center partnerships is included as a model...
Kickoff for NanoDays 2010
February 5, 2010
Margaret Glass
The NanoDays kits have been shipped and the digital resources are ready for downloading. Now it's time to get busy thinking about what you actually want to DO with all this stuff! Whether this is your first time creating a...
Nano Jobs!
February 1, 2010
Vrylena Olney
Lotus Leaves and Nano Pants at the Too Small To See Opening at the Sciencenter. The Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY, is hiring a project manager and education project coordinator to work on NISE Net programs and exhibits, along with other...
NanoDays Training Resources
February 1, 2010
Vrylena Olney
NanoDays is next month, and the NISE Net has a number of training materials that might be useful for those new to presenting nano content to public audiences: Margaret Glass and Steve Madewell will be running an online training on...
Real World Nano: Welcome to Real World Nano
January 26, 2010
Clark Miller, Arizona State University
Welcome to Real World Nano , a new space to explore what happens when nanotechnology leaves the laboratory and makes its way into the rest of society. RWN is a partnership between NISE Net and the Center for Nanotechnology in...
Billions and Billions: Translating "billion"
January 25, 2010
Vrylena Olney
Anders Liljeholm , a program developer at OMSI , wrote to me about a challenge in translating our materials into other languages. Did you know that in different countries the word "billion" can mean different amounts? In English, one billion...
Classroom Nano: Middle School Workshop
January 25, 2010
Vrylena Olney
Many of our partners have indicated that they do classroom activities of some type, so I'm going to be highlighting a few examples of partners incorporating nano into classroom programs. Please let us know what you've been doing with NISE...
10 Emerging Technologies for the Next 10 Years
December 29, 2009
Vrylena Olney
With the end of the year and decade just ahead of us, lots of people are looking back and compiling their top ten lists (for example, here , here , here , here , and here ). Andrew Maynard (a...