September 2010

September 27th – Free Webinar on Effective Use of Clickers

September 17, 2010

I’m going to be offering a one-hour free webinar on September 27th at 11 am MST on effective use of clickers.  This will be targeted to college faculty teaching all disciplines, but those of you in K12 will certainly be able to see how the messages apply to your environment.  Please consider joining us!  This [...]

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How do teachers organize their stuff?

September 13, 2010

Maybe teachers could have used this post during the summer, when you — theoretically — had some time to pay to organization. Still, I collected this short list of helpful tips from a listserv a while ago, and wanted to share. For example, how do you keep your hands-on activities organized?  .  This link will [...]

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131 Tips for New Teachers

September 9, 2010

One of my newly favorite blogs, Free Technology for Teachers, polled their readers for their tips and advice for new teachers.  The result is a neat little Google presentation, included below.  Some sample tips were: Create an “absent” box for absent students Develop a professional learning community; find a mentor Be consistent and respectful Know [...]

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Turn your iPhone into a microscope

September 9, 2010

How cool is this?  That image, below, was taken with a iPhone with a cheap microscope attached onto the camera.  Stunning!  Thanks to Crabfu for creating it, and to Teach42 for bringing my attention to it.

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Teach Physics promotional video

September 6, 2010

I keep meaning to post about this — the PhysTEC project has created a short (5 minute) video on physics teaching as a great career option. They’re suggesting that departments post this on their websites to promote careers in teaching physics. It’s a nicely done little video, and not a bad idea to raise awareness [...]

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Using undergraduates to support your courses — Teaching with Learning Assistants

September 3, 2010

I’m happy to announce that one of the fruits of my labors this summer — a module on Teaching with Learning Assistants at Carleton College’s Science Education Resource Center has now been published! From the site: Learning Assistants are talented undergraduate students, primarily in mathematics and the sciences, chosen for their broad interest in teaching [...]

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Just look down three posts…

September 2, 2010

For all you nice physicists who are hitting the blog because of the shout-out in the AAPT e-NNOUNCER, just scroll down three blog posts to find my listing of all my posts from AAPT. I welcome guest posts about sessions that I didn’t make it to! Just drop me a note at stephanie (at) sciencegeekgirl [...]

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