DIDASCALIA: A screenshot from Energy multimedia project.
Thus we had to use a very easy language, and a “funny” way to present things and concepts, based on cartoons, games and “curiosities”. The multimedia support is ideal for such a way of presenting contents. The course must be very simple to use, intuitive and easy to “navigate”. For the MURST we are preparing a web site on what in our country is done in the scientific and technological fields. Besides a large data-base of the private and public that work in this area, we also add a part to capture the attention and the curiosity of people on scientific and technological subjects. In this part we introduce people to fields of large interest “the mind”, “biotechnologies”, “materials”, “the universe”, “the microcosmo” (http://archimedes.sns.it).
Then, for the EU and the MPI we made courses for high schools and University: Technet and Edumat. Thechnet is a multimedia course on the properties and several applications of semiconductors, aimed at high school and undergraduate students; EDUMAT is a course on Physics of Matter, (in English), with an introduction of General Physics and Solid State Physics. The main aim of the course is to provide users the interpretative key to the properties of materials. It is intended primarily as a “self-study” course for high school graduates or undergraduate students. Technet and EDUMAT are presented in other abstracts.
To this activity contribute: M. Bianucci, P. Chessa, G. Costante (programming), R. Fieschi, P. Mangiarotti, M. Moi (graphic design), S. Rastelli (programming), R. Roncaglia, O. Tommasi (general multimedia design and coordination), and, occasionally, other people