Winter 1996 Meeting

Reno, Nevada

The Web Today

The first level in this list has links to web servers in the Davidson College Physics Department. The second level links to local documents in case the Internet connection fails during this talk.

• Faculty-Student Interaction
  • Forms Example
• Student-Student Interaction
  • Student Home Pages
  • Susan Fischer
  • Thesis
• Student Testing
  • Honor Code
  • Hestenes Test
  • Test Result
• Student Tutoring
  • Astronomy Tutor
  • Question
  • Answer
• Sharing Material with Others
  • Input Screen
  • Results
  • Document
• Finding It
  • Lycos Search
  • Lycos Results for Paul Trap
  • Trap Simulation
  • Web Crawler Result for Black Holes
  • Black Holes
  • How does it work? Web Spiders

The Future

The following examples require a HotJava enabled browser such as Netscape ver 2.0 beta 4.

Scripting
JavaScript allows interactive html documents with a minimum of programming.

Java
Java alows you to write complete platform independent programs in a C++ like language. HotJava is the browser technology that allows you to run these programs. A good place to look for sample java applets is the Gamelan site.

Plug In
Viewers will be imbedded in the browser. Eliminates separate helper apps. Macromedia is shipping. Apple Quicktime has been announed.

VRML
Virtual Reality Markup Language (similar to HTML or SGML) will enable the user to interact with artificial worlds. A trip to a black hole anyone?

WebPhysics

What is WebPhysics?

• Web Physics is a flexible low budget outlet for small volume, high quality, html based curricular materia.
• Web Physics provides a forum for physics educators to exchange curriculum ideas and resources that make use og the Web technology (public domain material only.)
• WebPhysics provides a medium for the dissemination of student work.
• WebPhysics is democratic. Let the democracy of the net do the weeding.
• Web Physics has low initial investment.
• Web Physics is not a vendor's forum.

What resources do we want on WebPhysics servers?

• Software
• Multimedia lessons in HTML multimedia format
• Distributed learning Web courses
• Multimedia databases
• Student projects

For more information on the WebPhysics curriculum development project and how to set up a WebPhysics server, contact Wolfgang Christian or Gregor Novak.

WebPhysics Servers currently on line:

Davidson WebPhysics Server
IUPUI WebPhysics Server
Moorhead WebPhysics Server