Margaret Corbit entered the world of computing as the science writer at the NSF-funded Cornell Theory Center (CTC), Cornell University's national supercomputing facility. At CTC she had the opportunity to be among the first journalists to use the World Wide Web for science communication. Her work combined educating and communcating about high performance computing with creative activities in new media. The SciCentr outreach program she founded at CTC survived the Center's reorganization and served as a University project until it migrated to GST BOCES in 2009 and morphed into EDUni-NY, an exciting resource for educators around the state. Corbit continues to collaborate with GST BOCES and to consult on projects that promise to open new opportunities for teachers and students.
Publications
2008
- Norton, Catherine, M. Corbit, E. Greene and L. Ormaechea. (2008) A Comparison Of Self-Directed Learning in a Virtual World Environment to Traditional Science Teaching Methods. Full paper, Proceedings of the NARST 2008 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
2007
- Corbit, Margaret and Catherine Norton. (November 2007), A Constructionist Approach to Virtual Worlds in the Classroom. Full paper, Proceedings of the 2007 NYSCATE Conference, Rochester, NY.
2006
- Corbit, Margaret, S. Kolodziej, R. Bernstein and C. McIntyre. (May 2006) Student Project Virtual Worlds as Windows on Scientific Cultures in SciFair. Full paper, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea.
2005
- Corbit, Margaret. (Sept/
Oct 2005) Moving into Cyberspace: Game Worlds for Learning. Knowledge Quest, Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, Vol. 34 #1, pp 18-22. - Corbit, Margaret, S. Kolodziej and R. Bernstein. (June 2005) SciFair: a Multi-user Virtual Environment for Building Science Literacy
. Proceedings, Beijing PCST Working Symposium, Beijing, China.
2003
- Borner, Katy, M. Corbit, and B. DeVarco. (March 2003) Building Blocks for Virtual Worlds: Design Principles for a Starter Kit for Educational Virtual Worlds
. CILT Seed Grant Final Report.
2002
- Maher, Chistopher and M. Corbit. 2002. Creating Genetic Applications for Informal Science Learning in Multi-user Virtual Environments or Virtual Worlds. Journal of Network and Communications Applications, 01 1-14, Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media, Graz University, Germany.
- Corbit, Margaret. (September 2002) Science Center Virtual World. Proceedings Communicating the Future: Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the Public, March 2002 conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, VA.
- Corbit, Margaret. (February 2002) SciCentr: Building Virtual Worlds for Informal Science Learning in the Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, Boston, MA.
2000
- Corbit, Margaret and B. DeVarco. (September 2000) SciCentr and Biolearn: Two 3D Implementations of CVE Science Museums. Proceedings of CVE 2000, conference sponsored by ACM SIGs SIG-CHI, SIGGROUP, and SIGGRAPH, San Francisco, CA.
1999
- Corbit, Margaret. (March 1999) Virtual Worlds for ISE. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Boston, MA.
Relevant Links
- New York Hall of Science
- National Insitute of Aerospace
- NASA Virtual Exploration Sustainability Challenge
- The Pathogen Tracker Game