Rod's Multimedia Laboratory

August 4, 1995

This is the multimedia classroom/laboratory that Rod built with the aid of an NSF grant with a target toward enhancing the teaching of science in the public schools. It is at this time pretty well state-of-the-art with 12 computers with access to the internet. The latest technology is used for classroom instruction, both with a view toward enhancing the learning of these future science teachers and to provide them with experience in the use of such tools for their future teaching.

The Natural Science Center was completed in 1991 and the construction of this room toward the goal of science teacher enhancement was begun. At this time it is used for the Conceptual Physics intensive summer series for the TEEMS program. Those students get initial teacher certification at the Masters Degree level and essentially go right out into the classroom after taking Conceptual Physics - it is often in their last term. The classroom is also used for conceptual physical science for both elementary and middle school education majors. At this point Rod was well along with the Development of the HyperPhysics learning environment in the HyperCard softward on the Macintosh. The real open Internet came into being in the neighborhood of 1993, so a new environment was developing for the type of things I was doing. In 1998 I began to port HyperPhysics over to the Internet and use html for its basic language.