Committee A: ComPADRE and The Nucleus
Committee charge
Committee A is charged with
1) reviewing the content of The Nucleus,
2) reviewing proposed moderator program and suggesting improvements,
3) review how clubs are represented on Nucleus vs how chapters are represented on SPS,and in particularly that committee members own zones and chapters are up to snuff,
4) make recommendations for connecting the Nucleus to Facebook, Myspace and You-tube,
5) make recommendations about how to best implement blogs for The Nucleu
6) suggesting new ways to bring physics students to the site...
Committee Findings and Recommendations
Charge 1: Content is good, but the committee recommends adding the following utilities: A utility to rank posts based on relevance and quality, and a utility to search forums by keyword.
Charge 2: The committee endorses the proposal, with the recommendation that the people recruited for these tasks be called "associate editors". The committee recommends adding the following areas of focus: 1) Book resources - work to enhance the resources in the book section. 2) Lounge Development - Contests, Challenge Porblems, Polls, and Facebook group. 3) YouTube liaison. Search YouTube and other video sites for relevant videos to link to the collection.
Charge 3: Clubs on the SPS site are just linked to their local web pages. On the Nucleus, clubs can load their own content. Many chapters and zones do not have pages on the Nucleus. Zone councilors are encouraged to establish zone pages, and ZC's and AZC's are encouraged to establish pages for their individual chapters. Committee members will establish pages for their chapters by 11/30, and for their zones by 2/28/08.
Charge 4: A Nucleus group should established on facebook (this has already been done). Everyone is encouraged to join the group and invite their friends to join. YouTube is discussed in charge 2. The committee feels that affiliation with MySpace is inappropriate.
Charge 5: The committee feels that blogs would enhance the collection, and that one of the associate editors should be tasked with maintaining a blog.
Charge 6: Steve, Mark, and Christine will develop ideas that can be implemented at the chapter level to involve more students. Dave will sythesize these into an observer article. Each member of the committee will then contact chapters to help them get students registered.
Charge 7: The committee feels that the goals of COPUS are in line with those of the Society. We further feel that the Society has the opportunity to take a leadership role in the scientific community. We therefore recommend that the council empower the director to pursue the opportunity of developing a COPUS student hub.
Committee members
David Donnelly (Zone 13), editor, donnelly@txstate.edu
Dustin Lorshbough (Zone 11), Dlorshbough@gmail.com
Mark Madland (Zone 11), madl0018@umn.edu
Dwight Neuenschwander (Zone 12), dneuensc@snu.edu
Christine Ploen (Zone 1), cploen@gmail.com
Steve Shropshire (Zone 15), chair,
shropshi@physics.isu.edu
Background Information
---SPS is part of an NSF-funded effort (NSDL, the National Science Digital Library), led by AAPT and involving APS and AAS, to continue development of ComPADRE, the physics digital library. The student component of ComPADRE is called The Nucleus (www.the-nucleus.org ot www.compadre.org/student) and it features an Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse, Scholarship/Fellowship Clearinghouse, Chapter of the Month features, book and text reviews, discussion threads, surveys and polls, etc.
Past committee action includes:
Drafted a motion made to have the President of SPS send a letter of support for the STEM Scholarship Database Act (House Resolution 5139) to the congressmen who are on the committee for this bill. (A bill that would establish a national scholarship search database focusing on science)
Draft a statement for the SPS Council in support of the STEM Scholarship Database Act (House Resolution 5139)
---Letter sent in support of HR5139, signed by SPS President Earl Blodgett, Sigma Pi Sigma President Ann Viano and XC members Krystle Williams and Katherine Zaunbrecher, to Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon and Representative George Miller by FAX on 10/1/06
Update by Gary White, 7/2/07
---National STEM scholarship database act passed by House (HR1051)!
see more details here:
http://sps2006council.pbwiki.com/f/National%20STEM%20Scholarship%20Database%20Act%206%2007.doc
links and references
| Name |
link |
| The Nucleus |
www.the-nucleus.org |
Summary of the ExCom Fall 2006 minutes
SPS Council Committee Charges
List of Committee Participants
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