Review for:The Physics Classroom

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posted: on January 25, 2007 at 3:21PM

My rating of this resource: ****

My experience using this resource:
Physics

Topic I was teaching:
All

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
Students could use this resource rather than their text to find information

Course Level:
Honors or Advanced, Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
When I assign reading from the text, I also assign "reading" from this online site. It is somewhat interactive (there are "questions" you can answer and the occasional applet.) My students often prefer this to the textbook.

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Increases student engagement and motivation

Strengths:
The site is well organized with comprehensive information. They have done a good job on their questions and checkbacks. It is easily searchable (if you can use an index) and has the same quality of pictures you would find in a textbook. (Many from some textbooks.)

Students seem to find it "cooler" to read from the computer than their book.

Weaknesses:
Students who don't like textbooks sometimes don't like this either. The reading level is a bit higher than Hewitt's Conceptual Physics and there is certainly more math in this site than Hewitt. The order of topics is somewhat different than in some standard physics texts, which can throw students (or teachers.)

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