PHYSWARE: A Collaborative Workshop on Low-cost Equipment and Appropriate Technologies that Promote Undergraduate Level, Hands-on Physics Education throughout the Developing World

16-27  February 2009, Trieste - Italy

Thursday, February 26

Application

Wednesday, 25 February

Walking person

Traffic 1

Traffic 2

Workshop Participants

Presentations

DZ Learning Cycles

Enter the difficulties that students have with 1-D kinematics

Anonymous suggestion

Tentative Schedule (Subject to changes until it is over)

Week 1
Week 2

Suggested Online Resources

Samples of publications by the Workshop Facilitators which are relevant to the workshop content

Priscilla Laws, Calculus-based physics without lectures
Priscilla Laws, Millikan Lecture 1996: Promoting active learning based on physics education research in introductory physics classes
Priscilla Laws, A unit of oscillations, determinism and chaos for introductory physics students
Pratibha Jolly. et al., Developing a research laboratory curriculum for college physics
Pratibha Jolly, Dean Zollman et al.,
Visualizing motion in potential wells
Elena Sassi, et al., Students' reading images in kinematics: the case of real-time graphs
Dean Zollman:  Millikan Lecture 1995:  Do they just sit there: Reflection on helping students learn physics
Dean Zollman, Teaching and learning physics with interactive video
Dean Zollman, et al. Kinematics of a head-neck model simulating whiplash