A collection of multimedia tools for teaching physics

Why multimedia Web tools (and Java in particular) for teaching physics ? Which are the pedagogical advantages ? What about reusability, and how to practically download material from the Web and reuse it ? What about distributed and network computing ? I am trying (compatible with my limited time) to put together and make available for colleagues a practical guide containing a set of tricks that I needed a lot of time to learn: follow this link to see, and one of these days something nice could appear...

For the moment I tried to collect and mirror good interactive material around the Web: see the index below (growing fast, I hope) and a list of links which could be useful. This collection is limited to most of the material I had the chance to try with my students (thanks to them for their patience); much more material follows in the last blue box, but I need one more year of course to evaluate it impact on my classroom. A lot of useful less interactive material (movies, Mathematica files etc.) can also be found on the Web, or bought (the nice and cheap CDs from Amaldi for Zanichelli, Halliday-Resnick for Wiley etc. are good examples). One of these days I'd like to review also this material...

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Thanks, Alessandro de Angelis

A collection of mirrored applets mostly coming from:
• Walter Fendt, http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/physengl/physengl.htm
• Fu-Kwun Hwang, http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/index.html

and of shockwave files mostly coming from
• Raman Pfaff (@ExploreScience.com)