ARRL Offering Free Basic Electronics Presentation
 The basic electronics course is designed around affordable
components, a prototyping board and a volt-ohmmeter. The recommended text is Understanding Basic Electronics. |
NEWINGTON, CT, Mar 1, 2005--The ARRL Education and Technology Program is offering schools and clubs a CD-ROM presentation on basic
electronics. The instructional presentation is available free of charge upon
request.
"The Basic Electronics Course is intended for teachers and
instructors who want a ready resource they can adapt to their instruction of
electronics fundamentals," says ARRL Education and Technology Coordinator Mark
Spencer, WA8SME. "The materials include a PowerPoint presentation and
instructor's script."
Spencer says the course is designed around affordable
components, a prototyping board and a volt-ohmmeter (VOM). The recommended text
is Understanding Basic Electronics.
"The course covers the very basics up to Ohm's Law and
then touches on other components like capacitors, coils, diodes and
transistors--components common to virtually all electronic circuits," Spencer
explains. He says teachers or instructors can use the presentation "as is" with
the script or "cut and paste and roll their own" course.
"The course should take on the order of 10 hours to
present," he notes. The PowerPoint presentation is on the order of 19
MB, so it is being made available on CD-ROM by request. Spencer has included a
parts list and source. Those with high speed internet connections may wish to download the PowerPoint presentation [18,991,104 bytes] and the Instructor's Script MS Word document [11,344,896 bytes].
For ARRL Education and Technology Program-participating
schools, Spencer says he's kitted up the necessary parts, VOM, prototyping
boards and text. That package is available by request to program schools as
part of their progress grants.
Spencer says the course can be presented in platform
discussion, guided practice, and open question format "as the material
dictates."
For more information or to request a copy of the
presentation, contact Mark Spencer, WA8SME, mspencer@arrl.org;
860-594-0396.
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