Mark,
I would be interested in helping, although my time is already
stretched. As I see you have most of the physics text written, I was
wondering if you needed suggestions of appropriate demonstrations for
any of the sections or if you might need a few line drawings--my
previous experience being in art and design. I would not have time to
make a major contribution, but suggesting demonstrations might be one
way for me to help. My outreach team is a group of volunteer undergad
and graduate students who barely have time for the outreach work we
already have lined up. I will pass along your info to one masters
student in physics education who might be interested in working with
you on this after he's done with his thesis this summer.
This looks like an enormous and very worthwhile project. I wish you
the best and if you can use my modest offer, let me know.
Pati
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/Pati Sievert/
/Outreach Coordinator, NICADD and Department of Physics/
/Northern //Illinois// //University///
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Mark Horner wrote:
Hi Patricia
Let me be brief - I am a South African student working at Lawrence
Berkeley National
Laboratory as part of my PhD research. A group of students from the
University of
Cape Town (SA) formed a project to aid education initiatives in rural
areas by reducing
the cost of textbooks. In rural areas books are unavailable to large
numbers of students
and budgets are tight - we can reduce the cost by an order of magnitude
by generating
content free from royalties.
More details on: http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst
I am trying to contact as many like-minded people as possible as we have
made much
progress but still need help finishing off physics.
Is there any chance that members of your outreach team would be
interested in lending a helping hand?
Its most certainly a worthy cause and the timing in great for such a
project in Southern Africa as
it will be easy to extend to countries like Namibia, Mozambique etc. and
science education is
hot topic.
Yours sincerely,
Mark
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