Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 07:45:04 -0700
				From: kstreet@holonet.net (Karen Street)
August 10 Meeting Notes
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These are the notes for a meeting held August 10 to discuss teacher
participation in the Alliance.

(1) Beginning in October, teachers, etc. are invited to a potluck 7 - 9 on
the first Tuesday of each month at 1721 Rose St. Location may change/begin
to rotate in January. The first month we'll discuss the advantages of
beginning the school year with sound and light vs. the advantages of
beginning with kinematics. We'll bring ideas, labs, demos and questions on
these subjects. Everyone bring your list of interenet resources - there are
scads out there. Each month we'll try to discuss curriculum appropriate to
the month, plus a more general topic. In November, we may discuss
kinematics and Bay Area resources.

(2) Beginning immediately, any teacher with a question/request for
help/idea can present it to the general alliance. Send it to
physics-alliance@lbl.gov. Owen has agreed to answer as able, Karen and Pete
are backups if the questions/requests go two or so days without a response.
If this becomes an irritatingly frequent event, Fred will establish an
address just for this purpose. Owen will get information about Oakland
Unified School District's internet service - will they let the physics
teachers on, how much will it cost, and what all kind of service does OUSD
offer?

Send anything you want added to our World Wide Web page,
        http://design.lbl.gov/education
to JFKral@LBL.Gov via email, and he will install it for you.

(3) We will assume that the universities/lab will host one meeting each
semester.

(4) We're thinking about meetings of more general interest, to be hosted by
the high schools. One popular idea is practice using Interactive Physics.

(5) We (who?) will contact the other groups to find out what they've been doing.

In order to increase the teacher base, we will obtain the local list of the
AAPT, and mail these teachers a description of the plans stated above, how
to get us on the internet, how to subscribe to the alliance, etc.
Additionally, during the last week of August, first week of September, we
will contact the physics teachers at the following schools individually:
Fred: Berkeley High, Arrowsmith
Karen: Albany, Piedmont, Richmond district
Owen: CPS, Oakland High, Oakland Tech, Skyline
Pete: Alameda, Encinal, and the local Catholic schools

If anyone in the Physics Alliance can notify teachers at one or more
schools in the East Bay, please let them know what we're up to. As a
minimum, get their name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.



Unrelated to the meeting: I'll be out of town August 18 - 28. Contact
anyone at the meeting if you have questions. KUGELGEN@aol.com (Owen),
vajk@netcom.com (Pete), jfkral@lbl.gov (Fred), kstreet@holonet.net (Karen)

See you all in the fall.

Karen