Title: |
Physics InfoMall: The First
Generation* |
Meeting: |
127th AAPT National Meeting:
Madison, WI |
Location: |
Hall of Ideas J |
Date: |
Monday, Aug. 4 |
Time: |
2:50 p.m. |
Author: |
Robert Fuller, Univ. of
Nebraska - Lincoln
402-472-2790,
rfuller2@unl.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Dean Zollman, S. Raj
Chadhury, Evelyn T. Patterson |
Abstract:
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In an era of pre-Windows
computer software a team of digital data pioneers attempted to take a
physics database to a place where no physics database had ever been and
shape it into every physics teacher's CD-ROM toolkit. The context and
challenges for the work of the "toolkit" team will be described. The
creation processes will be outlined. The lofty dreams for the CD-ROM
tool kit will be explained. The distance between those dreams and the
final commercial product, the Physics InfoMall, version 4.0, will be
analyzed. That analysis will be used to propose goals for the next
generations of physics digital databases. |
Footnotes:
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*Supported by NSF grant
#MDR-9054923 and grant #MDR-9253138. |
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