In her PhysLrnR post of 12 Dec 2002 18:07:05-0600, Tina Fanetti wrote:
"Where is this Powerful Ideas in Physics thing? I looked on the AAPT
web site and can't find it."
On 13 Dec 2002 10:18:59-0700, "Powerful Ideas in Physical Science"
(PIPS) leader Dewey Dykstra responded:
"If you go to www.aapt.org. . . (why not give the HOT-LINKED
<http://www.aapt.org> ??). . . then click on the "Programs" button in
the column of buttons on the left, the next page you see will have a
listing. Down under the "Four year college & university" list you
will find "Powerful Ideas in Physical Science. It occurs to me that
this dividing things up by HS, TYC, and 4-YC on the web site is very
misleading."
More compactly, in "click on address" (COA) parlance, PIPS is at:
<http://www.aapt.org> / "Programs"/ "Four year college & university"
/ "Powerful Ideas in Physical Science" where "/" means "click on."
An alternate route through the AAPT website maze starts at the AAPT's
"Physical Science Resource Center":
<http://www.psrc-online.org/> / "Curriculum/College" / "University" /
"Pre-service Teacher Education" / "Powerful Ideas in Physical
Science" where "/" means "click on."
An advantage of the above route is that it branches to 4 other
"Pre-service Teacher Education" programs. I list "Pre-service Teacher
Education" programs in Hake (2002a), "Sect. III. Systemic Roadblocks
To Science/Math Literacy" / "E. The dearth of effective P-12
science/math teachers" /
"4. Promote the research and development of effective curricula for
pre-service P-12 teachers (AAPT 2002). Examples from physics are the
CPU Project, Physics by Inquiry, Powerful Ideas in Physical Science,
Science Helper K-8 CD-ROM, and Workshop Physical Science."
Webmasters have constructed the PSRC website (and many others) so
that the URL remains the SAME for everything within the website.
Therefore a "click on address" (COA) is needed to direct people to a
specific place within the website. Unfortunately definitive COA's are
almost never used for this purpose.
Instead people like Tina are left like rats to solve the maze problem
by trial and error. Sometimes they fail and starve to death.
REFERENCE
AAPT. 2002. American Association of Physics Teachers, Physical
Science Resource Center; online at <http://www.psrc-online.org/> /
"Curriculum" / "College-University Physical Science" / "Pre-service
Teacher Education" where "/" means "click on."
Hake, R.R. 2002a. "Physics First: Opening Battle in the War on
Science/Math Illiteracy?" Submitted to the American Journal of
Physics on 27 June 2002; online as ref. 20 at
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>. See also Hake (2002b).
Hake, R.R. 2002b. "Physics First: Precursor to Science/Math Literacy
for All?" Summer 2002 issue of the American Physical Society's "Forum
on Education Newsletter" <http://www.aps.org/units/fed/index.html> /
"Forum newsletters" where "/" means "click on."; also online as ref.
19 at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>.