NIST Middle School Teachers Workshop

1. WEB 1.0 ,2.0 AND BEYOND…..
Allan Eustis, NIST
Office of the Director
Allan.eustis@nist.gov

2. Web 1.0

3. Web 2.0

5. Web 3.0 ?

9. Tweets with Geo-location

12. NEXT STEPS ?
Collaborative 2.0 Tools
NIST –Centric Instructional Content
NIST Scientist Involvement
What works? What doesn’t work?

13. WEB 1.0 ,2.0 AND BEFORE…..
“To measure is to know.”
Lord Kelvin

14. EARLY NIST:NEED FOR STANDARDS
1904 BALTIMORE FIRE
U.S. Becomes a Signatory to the Treaty of the
Metre 1879
Nascent electrical industry needed
standards
American measuring instruments sent
abroad for calibration
Consumer products and construction
materials uneven in quality and reliability
Eight different “authoritative’ values for the
gallon
Bureau of Standards Established by
Congress in 1901
• Authority Given to Congress for Weights
and Measures by the U.S. Constitution
Enoch Free Library

15. EARLY NIST:NEED FOR STANDARDS
1904 BALTIMORE FIRE
600 Different Fire Hydrant couplings across
the US
Enoch Free Library

16. WEB 1.0 ,2.0 AND BEYOND…..
Discussion
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Allan Eustis, NIST
Office of the Director
Allan.eustis@nist.gov

17. PERTINENT WEB SITES
Classroom 2.0 Web Site
http://www.classroom20.com/
Wolfram Alpha Search Web (3.0 beta) Site
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
NIST Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/4NIST
Wikispaces for teachers-main web page
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

18. PERTINENT WEB SITES
Wikispaces Web page for Middle School
Teacher Collaboration
http://constellation.wikispaces.com/Middle+S
chool+Science+Collaboration+Page
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 Interactive Web
Page: http://www.mdch.org/fire/
Lord Kelvin Quotation Web Page
http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/quotes/