Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20921303r&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #213.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Where do teachers find interesting and engaging material for their classrooms? Right now, there are a host of great lesson plans and other materials available on the Internet and elsewhere (much of it written by astronomy outreach professionals), but these materials are scattered and not always organized in a way that is easy for busy teachers to find and use. Also, much of this material is distributed in a "top-down" fashion, and it can be difficult for teachers to customize it for their own particular teaching style. Edplum is a website under development that will help solve these problems by allowing teachers and other educators to share small nuggets of material with each other and build up lesson plans, units and even entire curricula in a collaborative fashion. It will borrow principles from Wikipedia (the enormously successful online encyclopedia that anyone can edit) and other websites to create an online community in which teachers can share material with each other, see what material other teachers are using, and overall improve the quality of instruction in classrooms around the world in a "teacher-centric" way.
The Edplum project is supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-0602259.
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