The museum is built following this
project .
Its main purpose is to allow the access to the best online educational
resources for Physics and Science teaching.The presentation of the material is in Italian
but almost all resources are in english.
The first page shows a list of all available materials. By clicking on the
name you access the Internet resource (mostly Java applets)
.
The letters that appear after the applet's name allow to access other material
about the applet:
[O] links to the original presentation that consists of a frame where
the applet is commented by a card in italian.
By clicking on the [C] you access directly this accompanying card.
(The Card contains at the beginning a link "Translate this page!" to the AltaVista translation service
that allows to see the page somehow translated in English)
[I] points to an image showing how the applet looks like.
This image should give a clear idea of what you can do with the material
and can be accessed also from the card by clicking on the icon above on the right side.
[A] links to the applet collection containing this material.
[M] ,if present, gives access to the italian mirror of the material.
The card in italian has always the same format:
Introduzione - Presents the material
Cose da fare - What to do
Cosa succede - What happens
Commenti - Remarks
Then follows some important information about the material:
The same resources are also available ordered by subject.
Note that the big arrows present in the cards allow the navigation from
an applet to the other but only following the date of acquisition ordering.
In the card, above on the left, you find the small symbols [<] [>] [O] [.] .They point to the previous card (without loading the applet), to the following card (without applet loading),expand the card to fill all the window,kill the card to give all the available space to the applet.
The main purpose of this material is an invitation to explore by yourself
the huge number of wonderful resources available online and a tribute
to the wonderful people that are making these resources available.
For this reason ,each card shows the address of the collection
of applets containing the material and the search done to find the applet.
In addition you find here the list of all the
collections from where the applets in the museum were taken.
These online collections alone contain more than 1000 applets, so the material
in the museum should be considered as a small selection of what is available
online.
New applets are added at the rate of one every day and the cards are
updated and checked continuosly.
Level of the material This changes a lot from applet to applet but I didn't make any classification to invite people to explore by themselves : usually by looking the title, and the picture of the applet you should have a clear idea of the level of difficulty.Anyhow the main level is University, College and High School with something that can be used also for K12.
Quality of the material This also changes a lot from applet to applet.Also here I preferred not to classify but in any case the selected material has meet some minimum requirements: