FW: NSTA selects your site

From: Mark Davis (mark_d@nsta.org)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 11:23:21 PST

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Dear Exploratorium,

I'm writing to tell you about a new service provided by the National Science
Teachers Association and to invite you to help us facilitate the effort. The
service is called sciLINKS, and it is an endeavor by NSTA to connect
textbooks to useful online content.

Many teachers are taking advantage of the Internet to show their students
materials that enhance or extend the content covered in the curriculum.
These materials are available in the public domain, but they are often
difficult to find. We believe that by utilizing textbooks as a portal to
good online content, we can reach more teachers and students than is
possible with the traditional search engine or pointer web site. This is
simplified by the fact that 90% to 95% of students learn science through the
pages of a textbook. A direct connection from a concept on the textbook page
to materials exploring that concept in cyberspace leads readers to the kinds
of materials our professional educators believe work best in the classroom.

You are receiving this letter because one of your web pages was selected by
our team of teachers who reviewed it using a stringent set of criteria that
ensure selected materials have accurate content and effective pedagogy. You
can review the criteria they used by visiting
http://www.scilinks.org/criteria.htm

Our teachers selected the following web page(s), and identified the
following web masters and/or authors as responsible for this page or page:

URL Web master/author

Once a web site is selected, we place its URL in a database, correlate it to
the National Science Education Standards, and write a brief description that
identifies one or more of its salient characteristics. When a reader (a
teacher, student, or even parent) of a sciLINKed textbook comes across a
sciLINKS icon in their textbook, they know that the content on that page has
been enhanced with online content specifically connected to a single
concept. The reader goes to the free sciLINKS web site, and they type in a
code found on the pages of that text, and the sciLINKS search engine reports
the five to 15 pages our teachers selected.

When a user selects one of these sites, a new browser window opens, points
to the selected web site, and connects the reader directly to the content
provider--you.

We hope you find this connection useful. If you would prefer to not be
included in the site for any reason, please write me, and I'll remove your
page from the database. On the other hand, should you agree that this is a
useful way to direct students to your online content, then please consider
using the attached sciLINKS logo somewhere on the selected page(s). This
will mark your page as one of excellence.

If your web page URL changes please let me know so we can update it in our
database.

If a web page has been mistakenly attributed to your organization, please
zip me a note so that I can track down the actual owner.

If you have additional sites that you would like to submit for review go to
the
main scilinks page: http://www.scilinks.org
At the bottom of the page there will be a link to the submission page.

Thanks for considering this opportunity to connect teachers and students to
the content you have worked so hard to create.

Regards,

Mark Davis
SciLinks
Mark.Davis@nsta.org

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