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Drew's Day: Fair Use Policy

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All third-party images reproduced on this blog are shared under Educational Fair Use. I believe the Internet is an unprecedented educational tool. This blog is a free educational resource created by a working physics teacher with the aim of sharing physics teaching techniques and ideas for other teachers to implement in their own classrooms. For more information on Educational Fair Use. Please see this useful checklist prepared by Columbia University Libraries. Southern California Law Review. Is licensed...

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Drew's Day: AAPT Summer meeting twitter analytics #aaptsm14

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August 02, 2014. AAPT Summer meeting twitter analytics #aaptsm14. The Summer meeting of AAPT 2014 has come and gone. It was fantastic to get to engage with so many incredible teachers, to hear what they are doing in their classrooms, to catch up with old friends, and make some new ones. The use of twitter at the AAPT conferences has grown over the past few years. Rhett had a post at the end of the 2013 Winter meeting. In New Orleans which showed only 116 tweets using the conference hashtag. I made a word...

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Drew's Day: To the student who left the scathing review on RMP - thanks and I'm sorry

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March 16, 2015. To the student who left the scathing review on RMP - thanks and I'm sorry. I'm not really in the habit of checking up on my "Rate My Professors" (RMP) page, but coincidence led me there on the same day that this post was made by a student in one of my algebra-based physics sections from what I assume is this semester. I suppose that I am a bit heartened that the student was at least thinking about physics on Pi Day. Over the traditional method of only lecturing to students. There are ...

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Drew's Day: Words matter (was What does "brick and mortar" make you think of?)

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August 01, 2014. Words matter (was What does "brick and mortar" make you think of? Note: I posted a version of this originally on July 31, 2014. It was accidentally deleted, and I was unable to recover the original post. I rewrote the missing parts and added an epilogue at the end.). The PERC conference kicked off with an interesting talk by Mike Dubson from CU Boulder. There is a great summary of the talk by Stephanie Chasteen. Wrote a series of posts on that. Which you can read about on his blog. Prof ...

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Drew's Day: New Physics Drawings File: Springs

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October 23, 2014. New Physics Drawings File: Springs. I added a new file to the Physics Drawings page. The file has my interpretation of stretched springs. For use in physics homework, assessments, or presentations. All the files open in LibreOffice and compatible applications. They are CC licensed, so go nuts with using them. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New Physics Drawings File: Springs. There was an error in this gadget. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Drew's Day: 09/01/2013 - 10/01/2013

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September 04, 2013. The building that melted a Jaguar. Have you heard about the building in London that has been blamed for melting parts of a car. By reflecting sunlight off of it? It made the news. Today and was all over social media. Image Credit: Matt Buck. Probably not. Is it close enough to use as a model? That's the fun of trying to figure it out. I found some renderings of the building on its website. Here's what the circle looks like when I put it up to the side of the building:. The blue bar is...

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Drew's Day: 01/01/2014 - 02/01/2014

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January 07, 2014. What am I trying to encourage with my exam policies? I'm trying to figure how to handle giving quizzes and exam next semester in my algebra-based physics courses, my intro astronomy course and my general education course in musical acoustics. General education courses - Intro Astronomy and Physics of Sound, Music and Hearing. In the gen ed courses I do not use screencasts. The only homework that the students are required to do is the classroom reflections. Astronomy is not a lab...Signi...

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Drew's Day: 04/01/2014 - 05/01/2014

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April 21, 2014. Frustration and failure - things to capitalize on to facilitate learning. There's a great answer to the question on Quora: "Why do we get frustrated when learning something? Read Quote of Marcus Geduld's answer to Why do we get frustrated when learning something? There's much more to the answer on Quora. Hopefully you can see all of it if you click through. April 17, 2014. Dynamically updated figures - real data! Http:/ solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/bfly.gif. April 14, 2014. From 2012...

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Drew's Day: Bad Vibes - Is there such a thing as "sound therapy"?

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February 02, 2015. Bad Vibes - Is there such a thing as "sound therapy"? I stumbled across this article. Recently where the title asks the question: "Is a Sound Bath the New Way to De-Stress? The subtitle promises to show you "(h)ow to cut through the noise and attain inner peace." What the article actually describes is a mix of half-truths and straight up pseudoscience. For more about pseudoscientific claims surrounding the healing power of sound see the article called " Healing and Harming Sounds.