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DD: Fachverband Didaktik der Physik

DD 40: Neue Medien III (NOS)

DD 40.3: Talk

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 16:20–16:40, EW 229

History of electromagnetism and Web 2.0 educational technologies: the Pavia approach — •Lidia Falomo and Fabio Bevilacqua — via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy

The Pavia Stet Project deals with the history of Classical Electromagnetic Theories. Two chapters have already been realised, both dealing with Alessandro Volta (1745-1827): the controversy with Coulomb (1736-1806) on the quantification of electrical interactions and the debate with Galvani (1737-1798) on animal electricity.

Relevant primary sources have been selected, analysed and digitalised (Volta's collected works, manuscripts, instruments; Coulomb's first (1785) and second paper (1787) on electricity, electric torsion balance and pendulum devices; Galvani's Commentarius (1791-2) and his experiments). Historiographical debates have been promoted and published.

The results have been utilised for a pedagogical experiment: through extensive use of web sites, animations, movies, interactive exhibits, exhibitions. Today we are committed at a widespread utilisation of these results in the framework of the newly available Web 2.0 technologies, namely the Wiki software.