Panel discussion:

Hypermedia, Internet and virtual physics: Why and how should they influence physics teaching?

Examples for the topics of the panel discussion

Hypermedia / Multimedia / CD-ROM

CUPLE (Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment) (internet-link: "http://www.asms.rpi.edu/cuple/cuple.htm")

Software Teaching of Modular Physics (SToMP)(internet-link: "http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/stomp/")

Multimedia Motion (The Physics of Motion on CD-ROM). Cambridge Science Media.

Encarta'95 (MS "Complete Interactive Multimedia Encyclopia") freely distributed with Windows 95.

Internet

Information Sources

The Internet Pilot To Physics(internet-link: "http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/")

Physics Around the World (Physics Resources All Over the World)(internet-link: "http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/PAW/Welcome.html")

Physics Around the World. Education and Online Material(internet-link: "http://www.tp.umu.se/physics-services/physics_education2.html")

The Living Encyclopedia of Physics (TIPTOP/LEP)(internet-link: "http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/LEP/")

Physics FAQ (from the USENET group sci.physics)(internet-link: "http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-bng/sci.physics.html")

Infos and additional Material to Physics Software

Interactive Physics (a complete mechanics course with movies)(internet-link: "http://info.itp.berkeley.edu/Vol1/Contents.html")

MUPPET (Univ. of Maryland)(internet-link: "http://physics.umd.edu/ripe/muppet/samples.html")

Physics Academic Software (internet-link: "http://www.aip.org/pas/pashome.html")

Journals and Newsletters

Computers in Physics (American Institute of Physics (AIP))(internet-link: "http://www.aip.org/cip/ciphome.html")

Computer in Physics Education (CPE) Newsletter . CTI Physics Centre, Univ. of Surrey.(internet-link: "http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/cti/home.html")

Online Courses and Texts

fun@learning.physics (by Mark Sutherland).(internet-link: "http://medb.physics.utoronto.ca/Web/website/fun.html")

Computational Science Education Project (Electronic book. Vanderbilt Univ.).(internet-link: "http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/csep/CSEP.html")

Engineering Science (ES130) CIEE Vanderbilt University.(internet-link: "http://ciee.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/es130/home130.html")

Physics Unbound (A physics Textbook maintained by Mark Lindeman)(internet-link: "http://uptown.turnpike.net/L/lindeman/physics_ub.html")

Special Systems

The Exploratorium: A Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception(internet-link: "http://www.exploratorium.edu/")

Virtual Libraries

The internet public library (i.e. Science & Technology, Physics)(internet-link: "http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/SCI/physics-rr.html")

CERN WWW Virtual Library Physics: (internet-link: "http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Physics/Overview.html")

Online Materials (Filmloops, Movies, Overheads, Videos)

Brown Univ:(internet-link: "http://www.physics.brown.edu/local/instructional-labs/")

Good Starting Points

Nevada Univ. Dept. of physics in Las Vegas (internet-link: "http://www.physics.unlv.edu/")

PhysicsEd: Physics Education Resources. (Univ. of Washington)(internet-link: "http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/physics.html")

Virtual Physics

Virtual Physics Laboratory. Univ. Houston.(internet-link: "http://www.vetl.uh.edu/ScienceSpace/sidhtml.html")

The Virtual Laboratory (JAVA-Simulations and movies)(internet-link: "http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/VLAB/")

The Earthweb's GAMELAN JAVA Directory (42 entries for physics)(internet-link: "http://www.gamelan.com/index.shtml")

The Electronics Laboratory Simulator (ELS). CIEE Vanderbilt University. (internet-link: "http://www.falconsoftware.com/falconweb/els.html")

The Virtual Lab: Engineering the Future (Electrical and Computer Engineering. Carnegie Mellon)(internet-link: "http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/class/projects/badelt/www/virtual-lab.html")

 

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