A couple of new quick labs for my students this fall. Thanks physics Twitter!
I finally bought zcars and had students do this lab – worked great! Thanks for the idea. We graphed a-t using Desmos and later graphed v-t by hand. We used half-second intervals, a little fast for …
I was poking around YouTube looking at videos about where the Earth’s Moon came from. The currently accepted theory is called the Giant Impact Hypothesis. Though details differ, the main idea is that a smaller planet collided with the early Earth, and the Moon arose from the resulting debris. This …
You’ve probably come across this idea that all the planets could fit between Earth and the Moon. The usual representation looks like this image I found on Google:
It turns out, it’s not entirely true. Here’s a good article about this, published in Slate a few years ago. The planets …
My inspiration for this project was a Twitter tweet from Brian Frank. In that tweet he showed a photo of a graph sketched out on a whiteboard. It was a graph of a collision between two objects, and it showed the velocity and momentum of the objects before, during, …
When I discovered Desmos, I knew that both I and my students would love it. Desmos has been called an online graphing calculator, which is literally true, but a description that barely captures the possibilities. I have come to see Desmos as a programmable simulator, using a programming language …
I was tasked this year with redesigning the physics curriculum at my school. Our state (MA) just upgraded their framework, so we needed to re-align. For the last decade, the state’s framework was nothing more than a shopping cart of physics topics. There wasn’t even an attempt to distinguish topics …
In practice of my first webinar I forgot to do some basic things prior to running the event in order to make things run more smoothly. Because of this, I created a checklist of things to do prior to launching the webinar.
Here’s my most ridiculous preflight checklist prior to …
Last week I presented my first webinar for INTE 5670 Plan and Facilitate Live Events. Overall I think it went well and I would like to share some things that I learned from the experience. Admittedly, I sort of took the idea of the “webinar course” for granted because …
CARP, not referring to a fish, but rather it’s an acronym for Contrast, Alignment, Repetition, Proximity. Sometimes referred as CRAP! Or so I have found by doing a brief search for CARP on Google. There are already so many great resources out there describing CARP, however I first learned …
A new year, and another semester at University of Colorado Denver. I can’t believe it’s been almost exactly two years since my last blog post! I started blogging more heavily when I enrolled in UCD back in 2015 in the master’s program for Instructional …
This project required a full redesign of existing online training for the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) Early Language and Literacies series to include new interactivity, video, animation, and student assessments within 14 eLearning course modules. The goal of this project was to transform the training modules from hour-long YouTube …
This project required a full redesign of existing online training for the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) Early Language and Literacies series to include new interactivity, video, animation, and student assessments within 14 eLearning course modules.
The goal of this project was to transform the training modules from hour-long YouTube …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and challenged me to think about what it means to learn in an adult and corporate context. Using the Instructional Design Model, ADDIE, I worked with a partner to …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and challenged me to think about what it means to learn in an adult and corporate context.
Using the Instructional Design Model, ADDIE, I worked with a partner to …
This project was a part of a larger initiative to rebrand the entire worldwide commerce unit at IBM. The social strategy played a critical role in making the transition known –informing and educating clients and prospects across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn channels. The announcement was to take place during World …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and focused on research in learning design and technology. I split my time between analyzing and evaluating methods for observing instruction, assessing learning and collecting reports to improve instruction …
This project was a part of a larger initiative to rebrand the entire worldwide commerce unit at IBM. The social strategy played a critical role in making the transition known –informing and educating clients and prospects across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn channels.
The announcement was to take place during World …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and focused on research in learning design and technology.
I split my time between analyzing and evaluating methods for observing instruction, assessing learning and collecting reports to improve instruction …
This video project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver. It required collaboration and creation of a 3-5 minute instructional video aimed to educate people on the importance of core stability and where to go to learn more. …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and challenged me to educate and inform through design. After researching topics around underrepresented communities in Denver, I created an infographic in Piktochart to support the non-profit organization, Latin …
This video project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver.
It required collaboration and creation of a 3-5 minute instructional video aimed to educate people on the importance of core stability and where to go to learn more. …
This project was part of my coursework in my Information and Learning Technology master’s program at the University of Colorado Denver and challenged me to educate and inform through design.
After researching topics around underrepresented communities in Denver, I created an infographic in Piktochart to support the non-profit organization, Latin …
I don’t get nearly enough chances to use Celestia in my classroom. I’ve loved messing around with Celestia for years, but it’s the rare student who shares my enthusiasm for astronomy. In class I will use Celestia to demonstrate gravitational orbits – moons around planets, planets and comets around suns, …
My brother-in-law Peter visited last year and showed me and my wife some of his favorite short videos on YouTube. When I saw this one featuring a man inspecting high voltage lines, I knew that I would show it to my students. It’s a lovely little video narrated by the …
A couple of years ago, when my team of physics teachers started building instruction around the topic of electromagnetic radiation, I began assembling a list of different common uses of EM radiation. This list would provide a basis of information to use in our written instruction, as well as suggest …
My physics curriculum has shifted in response to our new state frameworks, and one shift has been a greater emphasis on electromagnetic radiation. I’ve been having fun concocting new examples and demonstrations (including an “in-house” field trip to our metal fabrication shop to experience welding).
This spring my class was …
I think of physics as a kind of story. It’s actually a huge collection of stories, the result of working to understand every physical phenomenon under the sun (and beyond). In the physics classroom I am therefore a storyteller, and I endeavor to help my students become …
One of my students this past year had a medical condition that required him to be out of school for an extended time. In situations like this, I usually aggregate all the instructional material for a unit into a single file called a Portfolio PDF. Notes, homework, worksheets, quizzes, …
In a previous ILT course I had to create a field project. The course had us explore different ways to evaluate the effectiveness of technology use in a school setting, so I decided to create a survey of interactive whiteboard (smartboard) use in my school. This was to be a …
What’s missing from most great art? According to Andy Doe, it’s a search and rescue vehicle. Add one to a painting today.
