PhET Blog

This Thanksgiving season, we at PhET are especially thankful to have such a wonderful PhET community. We thank you for:

• Including PhET in your lessons, lectures, labs, handouts, and homework
• Sharing your teaching activities on PhET with other teachers around the world
• Translating the simulations into over 70 languages

We are pleased to announce that PhET Interactive Simulations and the Royal Society of Chemistry have been selected as a BETT Award Finalist for the suite of six next-generation Chemistry simulations.

Wish us luck for the final selection at the BETT Show January 21-24, 2015 in London!

Try the new #HTML5 Faraday’s Law simulation to learn what happens when a magnet moves through a coil. What affects the brightness of the bulb? What’s the difference between moving through big versus small coils?

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We are searching for qualified candidates who are interested in joining the PhET team as a full- or part-time “Professional Research Assistant.” We are seeking specifically educators with a background in teaching, preferably at the middle school or high school level.

With our current emphasis on building and studying simulations for middle school math and science, advancing our teacher professional development resources and support system, branching into tablet and touch-compatible simulation design, increasing the accessibility capabilities of our simulations, and advancing the use of simulations in undergraduate chemistry, responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

1) Redesigning (as part of a 3-5 person team) existing PhET simulations, incorporating new findings on effective sim design and adapting designs for use on touch-devices. (Software programming is NOT required. PhET has a team of in-house software developers).
2) Designing new PhET simulations.
3) Conducting user-testing through interviews of students using simulations.
4) Supporting simulation design, development, and research efforts – e.g. analyzing data, supporting classroom research studies, searching for web resources, etc.
5) Helping to liaison to and support the K12 community.
6) Assisting with marketing and dissemination of PhET resources to teachers: develop and represent PhET in online teaching forums and resources; run exhibit booths at national and local conferences; assist with teacher workshops.
7) Responding to inquiries to PhET about science/math questions and new simulation ideas.

For more information and specific qualifications, see the online posting at:

https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/89569

Please consider applying! And, share this information with your colleagues who might be interested.

Thanks!

Have you received our Fall 2014 newsletter? Read about our new “For Teachers” page, learn what’s in the pipeline, and see what conferences we’ll be attending in the coming year.

And, don’t forget, we’ve started our annual end-of-year campaign. Please help support PhET at http://phet.colorado.edu/en/donate.

Going to iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium Nov. 4-7, 2014 in Palm Springs, CA? Stop by our booth #310 and see the latest #HTML5 simulations and the re-vamped “For Teacher” resource at phet.colorado.edu.