U Delaware’s Island manager sent me a list of links this morning, one of which really resonated with what I’ve found so far: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32673 . . . see conclusion “few physicists have gone there yet” . . . or at least made stuff that they then tagged to be found! LOL!) . SaLamander and sloog both had several sites listed to visit, but few were actual manipulatives and even fewer were intro physics related . . . SL is just new and doing things related to the teaching of intro physics for whatever reason isn’t as developed as other sciences. A great model of what *can* be done for a given discipline is Genome Island (SLurl = Genome (127, 128, 48)). There is definitely a need for physics objects, so working on this project over the summer will be of some good use. I’m certain I’ll recreate some things others have made or stumble upon someone who has done a lot and I’ve not yet discovered them, but even so – there is a paucity of at least findable learning objects related to intro physics in SL. Better move on to planning some things to make now!
Posted by: wesolwow | July 5, 2008
Notes from Firery
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