Category Archives: glodal physics department

Help with odd lab equipment

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

I co-facilitated a physics teacher professional development week here at Hamline a few weeks ago. It was really great talking and working with so many physics teachers! One of the things that came up was the need to help identify … Continue reading →

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GPD vs AAPT

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

This week I went to the summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). It was great to see so many friends (some of whom I hadn’t met face to face before) and it was fun to brainstorm … Continue reading →

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Does voice matter?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

As I was reading Shawn Cornally’s post on why the Rubik’s Cube team is trying to win a Nobel Prize tonight, I could hear him through it. All thanks to his wonderful appearance at a Global Physics Department meeting, I … Continue reading →

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Markdown with Mathjax

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

This summer I’ve been working with others in the Global Physics Department to develop an online Physics Problem Database. We’re at version 0.1 right now (very alpha, so watch out) but it’s been a lot of fun learning about how … Continue reading →

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Teacher coaching

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

I just finished up with a fabulous Global Physics Department meeting. Tonight we coached two teachers who were brave enough to submit videos of their classrooms and take the (hopefully constructive) criticism of their peers. Here’s a recording of tonight’s … Continue reading →

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SBG with voice update

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

In preparation for this week’s Global Physics Department meeting (Wednesdays at 9:30 ET), which will feature a discussion about Standards Based Grading in physics classes, I thought I’d write down some thoughts/reflections/problems I’ve been having about using SBG in my … Continue reading →

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>Global Physics Department

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

>Announcement: Next week John Burk (@occam98) will show us how he uses Tracker in his teaching. Wednesday 3/30/2011 Tonight was the second installment of the physics educators elluminate chat. This time we had 15 different people log in and join … Continue reading →

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