Summer 2009 Newsletter

Ernie Malamud and Carl E. Mungan, Editors

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In this Issue

From the Chair, Peter Collings

Announcements

• Joint DPP/FEd Plenary Session at the Summer 2009 AAPT Meeting
• Workshops on Active Learning with Video Analysis
• Committee on Education Report, Peter Collings

Letter to the Editor

• College scientific literacy courses make a big difference, Art Hobson

Articles

• 2009 Member Survey, Ernie Malamud
• Mini-grant: Teaching K-12 fluid dynamics: the physics of flow, Benjamin Blonder
• LaserFest 2010, Nadia Ramlagan
• Strategies for Developing an Educational component for an NSF proposal
  • Advice on Writing an Educational Component, Lincoln Carr
  • Strategies for Developing an Educational component, John Cerne
• Case-based Science Learning
  • Using Cases in Introductory Physics, Debora M. Katz
  • Start with a Story: The Teacher as a Storyteller, Clyde Herreid
• Mining Your Research, Jonathan F. Reichert
• Educating Engineers for the 21^st Century, Charles M. Vest and Norman L. Fortenberry
• What is ABET and What does it have to do with physics? Keryl Cryer and M. Dayne Aldridge
  

APS Spring 2009 Meetings Session Summaries, Education invited talks

• March 16 - 20, 2009 Meeting in Pittsburgh
• May 2 - 5, 2009 Meeting in Denver
  

Teacher Preparation Section

• From the Editor of the Teacher Preparation Section, Jon Stewart
• AAPT/PTRA Professional Development Program, Jim Nelson
• College Ready in Mathematics and Science Partnership, Gay Stewart
  

Browsing the Journals, Carl Mungan

Web Watch, Carl Mungan

Executive Committee of the Forum on Education