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ActionBioscience.org
Picked for ENC's Digital
Dozen and Texas A&M's LABB Seal of Approval
For Immediate Release
3 October 2002
For more information, contact:
Oksana Hlodan
Editor, ActionBioscience.org
941-423-8636
editor@actionbioscience.org
ActionBioscience.org receives recognition from the
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse and Texas A&M University
Each month, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
features 12 high-quality mathematics and science education
web sites on ENC Online (www.enc.org).
Known as the Digital Dozen, the 12 sites are selected by a
team with math, science, education, and web publishing
expertise. This month, ActionBioscience.org has been chosen
for the award.
Located at The Ohio State University and supported by the
U.S. Department of Education, ENC was established in 1992 to
collect all types of teaching materials for K–12 math and
science educators and to identify and disseminate
information about federally funded programs.
ENC’s description of ActionBioscience.org reads:
Seven biological
challenges:
how do they affect your life?
Grade(s): 09 - Post-Sec. ENC#: 020190
Synopsis: Did you know that with each passing hour,
three species have disappeared forever from this planet? Or
that autism might have a genetic origin? These and countless
other questions are addressed and explored through articles
designed to raise public awareness and engagement with
bioscience issues.
http://www.enc.org/features/dd/archive/0,1577,10-2002,00.shtm
To be selected for the Digital Dozen, sites must meet
criteria in the following categories:
- Content and Pedagogy
- Audience Usefulness and Engagement
- Functionality and Navigation
- Use of Web Technology and Design
Also this month, Texas A&M University at Galveston has named
ActionBioscience.org the “web site of the month” and gives
it the Seal of Approval from the Laboratory for Applied
Biotelemetry and Biotechnology (LABB) at the Department of
Marine Biology.
This is our pick-of-the-month for an outstanding site
related to research and education in marine life sciences,
and is awarded the LABB Seal of Approval. ActionBioscience.org is an outstanding site dedicated to
promoting literacy in biological sciences. It features a
wealth of useful information to the interested web-surfer,
as well as teaching tools, information and curricula,
including original, peer-reviewed articles. This site will
definitely stimulate discussion about a large variety of
biological topics including evolution, biodiversity, and
many more.
http://www.tamug.edu/labb/News/Old_site-of-month.htm
For information about ActionBioscience.org, an education
resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences,
contact the editor, Oksana Hlodan, at
editor@actionbioscience.org
or ohlodan@aibs.org.
For information about other AIBS education initiatives,
contact Susan Musante, Education and
Outreach Program Manager, at
smusante@aibs.org.
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