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Committee E: SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma Publications and Communications

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Committee E: SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma Publications and Communications

 

  1. Committee E: SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma Publications and Communications
    1. Committee charge
    2. Committee members
    3. Some Background Information
    4. links and references
    5. Action Plan
    6. Address to the Webpage Design Staff:
    7. Drafts

 

Committee charge

This year charge for Committee E is to review Sigma Pi Sigma publications and communications, suggest new ideas for future publications (electronic and print, see the Sigma Pi Sigma website at http://www.sigmapisigma.org/ and Radiations at http://www.sigmapisigma.org/radiations/index.htm ). The committee will prepare a document summarizing the committee’s accomplishments, recommendations and decisions to date to share with the rest of the Council. The document should include a timeline for accomplishing the committee’s goals for the rest of the academic year.

 

Committee members

Blodgett Earl, Chair (XC, Zone 9) earl.d.blodgett@uwrf.edu

Haskins Diana, Vice-Chair (Zone 14) dfulton@uccs.edu

Hernandez Tomas (Zone 16) thernandez2@utep.edu

Tahar Mohammed (Zone 2) mtahar@brockport.edu

Topasna Gregory (Zone 4) TopasnaGA@vmi.edu

White Gary (SPS staff) gwhite@aip.org

 

Some Background Information

--- The SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Executive Committee has moved to establish this committee to review past publications. Last year this committee focused on SPS-related items, namely The SPS Observer and JURP, and moved to expand the SPS Reporter program to all 10 societies. In addition, the SPS website is due for an overhaul, thus the new look and structure for the SPS website will be reviewed.

 

links and references

 

Namelink
SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma Publicationshttp://www.spsnational.org/publications/publications.htm

 

Action Plan

  • We have reviewed the new SPS website and we will forward suggestions/comments to Tracy Merritt. Assigned to Tomas Hernandez (10/7/2006)
  • We will present questions/comments about the Radiations Magazine design and content to the Publications Team. Assigned to Diana Haskins (12/1/2006)
  • We will propose to the Publications Team a new regular feature on Demos/Classroom activities for the SPS Observer to be archived on the SPS website. Assigned to Gregory Topasna (10/7/2006)
  • Our future goal is to review the Radiations Magazine online and include these questions/comments presented to the Publications Team. Assigned to all members of the committee (12/1/2006)

 

Address to the Webpage Design Staff:

Dear Tracy Schwab and Webpage staff,

 

Committee E for Communications and Publications reviewed the new format of the website of the SPS. Overall we think that the website, design and content are great. We would like to make some observations and suggestions:

 

1. In the calendar, it seems there is a lot of space between the date and the name of the event.

2. We noticed there is a page to submit a news item. We were thinking it will be a good idea to either create a similar page or add to that same page the ability to submit a) a calendar item and b) a meeting announcement.

3. We were thinking that adding a TV icon or something similar to articles that are linked to a TV webpage (like the Absolute Zero article) or with a media content will be useful to remark the further content of the article.

4. We will suggest adding instant small pop-up boxes that will summarize the content of an article when moving the cursor over its link.

5. We suggest including a calendar of events in a calendar format as a complement to the current “listing” calendar. We think this will be more helpful for faster searching of events and a better view of the time frames of the events.

6. We noticed that the “member registration” page is still in the old format.

7. We found small typos here and there, we are sure this will be revised before publishing the final version of the webpage.

 

We advise to consider these suggestions.

 

Members of the committee, please let me know if I forgot any other suggestion.

 

Thanks for your help and your excellent work in designing this webpage.

 

Yours,

 

Tomas Hernandez

AZC Zone 16

 

 

Drafts

Keep your drafts here so you can refer to earlier versions.

 

Draft 1

Draft 2

Comments (2)

Earl Blodgett said

at 10:45 am on Oct 2, 2006

Radiations Questions: At the Executive Committee meeting Sunday morning, no one could recall for sure exactly what drove the decision to choose that particular shade of paper. Also, the exact reason why the last issue of Radiations was only 24 pages instead of 32 pages was not clear, although budget could be suspected. Sonia Lopez was quite sure that we can publish in multiples of 4 pages, not 8 pages. So I will ask Gary to see if we can find out some of that background information.

Earl Blodgett said

at 10:46 am on Oct 2, 2006

Demos in Observer: The Physics Teacher publishes a lot of good, detailed articles about 'how to' make demos, and the Physics To Go collection on ComPADRE will be archiving lots of stuff. The problem is that most of our SPS members do not see The Physics Teacher, nor would they ordinarily stumble upon Physics To Go.
So perhaps one goal of the recurring demo/outreach feature could be to come up with ways to point SPS readers to those two resources.
One idea I had, would be to write the article from the perspective of "it worked for us", where pick an outstanding chapter to select their favorite demo/outreach activity, describing it in general terms, with photos showing them in action, and then giving links/references to websites/articles where one could find more specific tips on building and using that demo.

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