Fwd: [INAAPT] INAAPT meeting

[Steve Spicklemire]

There was a problem with Julie's email address (which I hope is  
resolved) but in the mean time, she posted this:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Conlon, Julie A" <jaconlon at purdue.edu>
> Date: April 26, 2007 8:21:59 AM EDT
> To: "Steve Spicklemire" <steve at spvi.com>, <inaapt at inaapt.org>
> Subject: RE: [INAAPT] INAAPT meeting
>
> My own thoughts are that we need to do an aggressive one-on-one  
> contact
> with high school teachers we know.  However, I believe we must have a
> focus, a purpose.  From what I've witnessed over the past 6 years,
> teachers are so very busy and committed to their teaching, coaching,
> continued professional development (often through filling up their
> summers at university workshops that provide payment and credit/CRUs).
> I believe that if we want an increased presence by high school  
> teachers,
> we need to offer what teachers can take and use in their  
> classrooms.  We
> may need to learn what that is first.
>
>> From experience, we've struggled along the same way trying to get our
> high school QuarkNet program going.  It's taken some exploration and
> thinking out of the box, but I THINK one thing we've learned was to
> incorporate physics undergrads through a service learning class, so we
> can bring the program to the classroom.  The focus is now becoming  
> more
> clear--building and delivering cosmic ray detectors for high school
> classrooms.   Prior to this, we were presenting a week during the  
> summer
> with guest lecturers on theory from particle physics.  Our service
> learning students, under the guidance of our class, were able to
> translate this theory into activities that will allow high school
> students to better understand the research component via use of the
> detector.
>
> I use this as an example.  Because of my unique position being full- 
> time
> in outreach, I would be happy to make visits to high schools with ICP
> and Physics teachers who are not a part of INAAPT.  Perhaps I would  
> take
> along a brief survey, finding out what these teachers would value in
> terms of support that could then be developed through INAAPT.  For  
> one,
> it seems that a week of guided development of demos is important.
>
> I guess I'm not convinced that joining forces with another  
> organization
> will necessarily increase involvement in INAAPT.
>
> Julie
>
> Julie A. Conlon                                        Office Phone:
> (765) 494-0740
> Physics Outreach Coordinator              Mobile Phone:  (765)  
> 479-4722
> College of Science                                 Fax:  (765)   
> 496-2298
>
> Purdue University
> www.physics.purdue.edu/outreach
> 525 Northwestern Avenue
> West Lafayette, IN 47907
>
>
> Science is built up of facts as a house is of stones, but a collection
> of facts is no more a science than a
> pile of stones is a house.
>
> --Henri Poincare, La Science et l'Hypothese (1908)
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: inaapt-bounces at inaapt.org [mailto:inaapt-bounces at inaapt.org] On
> Behalf Of Steve Spicklemire
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:33 AM
> To: inaapt at inaapt.org
> Cc: Steve Spicklemire
> Subject: [INAAPT] INAAPT meeting
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Uwe Hanson called me about the fall Indiana Academy of Science
> meeting. He was wondering if the Indiana AAPT would like to
> participate. In light of our conversation about possibly switching
> (or adding) a fall event I was wondering what folks on this list
> thought about the idea. Their fall meeting runs Thursday and Friday
> (October 25/26). If we wanted to add Friday night/Saturday morning
> activities for any interested IAS members to join us it might work
> out, or there may be some other way we could be involved. I'm
> certainly not trying to push for this, but I am a bit discouraged
> about the turnout in Terre Haute, and it would be nice to find some
> way to improve that for next time. Anyway, share your thoughts if you
> have a minute.
>
> (If you 'Reply to all recipients' you should see the list address in
> your reply, otherwise your reply will just go to me. If that's what
> you want, OK, but I think it would be better to have a 'group'
> conversation in this case.)
>
> thanks,
> -steve
>
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