Want to see all the materials from presentations and workshops I’ve given? I now have a separate page on my blog for presentations (check it out). I’ll keep that updated, so you can always find some of my materials. You’re always welcome to borrow my ideas, as long as you give attribution! And remember, I like being hired to give workshops and talks.
Below are the workshops I’ve given in the past, so the archive is up to date.
Conference acronyms:
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| Making the Global Local: Colorado Climate Curriculum WorkshopTeachers explore Colorado-specific data and determine whether it supports or does not support the hypothesis that Colorado’s climate is changing. Handouts here. |
Teaching Outside the Box, Boulder, CO (April 30, 2011). |
| What Do You Want Them to Learn Tomorrow? Learning Goals and Formative Assessment Two hour workshop for faculty on developing measureable, specific learning goals for courses, and using those goals to drive instruction and assessment. PDF of slides. |
North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro (March, 2011)&Faculty Teaching Excellence Program, Boulder (March, 2011 & April 2010). |
| Getting the Word Out: Effective Communication of the Results of Our Work in Physics Education Research.Plenary talk on what education researchers can learn from the science communication field — and how we can more effectively create educational change with the results of our field. PDF of slides. |
Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research – Puget Sound (FFPERPS) March, 2011 |
Alternative Careers in MediaInvited presentation on science writing careers. |
Beyond Boulder student career panel. February, 2011 |
| Make Clickers Work for YouI give this workshop too often to update this site. Please instead visit the clicker resource website (which has links to talks and presentations, and videos on clicker use. |
Multiple presentations |
| Writing Great Clicker QuestionsA series of 1-2 hour workshops on question-writing strategies to promote student learning. of talk. (For more recent talks, visit the clicker resource website). |
Multiple presentations |
| Communicating Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) outside of DBER.Led discussion of research-based practices and pedagogy can be communicated to non-DBER faculty. Video |
DBER Group Meeting , December 2010. |
| Translating Discipline-Based Education Research to K12 teachersInvited presentation on how research-based practices and pedagogy can be communicated to K12 teachers with clickers and PhET as two examples. |
iSTEM Teacher Professional Development Mini-Symposium, Sept. 2010. |
| Facing Facebook: Using Social Media In and Out of the Physics Classroom Invited panel speaker at AAPT and presenter at CSC. Prezi. |
CSC, Denver CO, November, 2010AAPT, Portland OR, July 2010 |
| An Inside Look: Practical strategies for personal response systems |
AAPT, Portland OR, July 2010 |
| What (most) Physicists (don’t) Do: Alternative Careers in Science.Invited speaker for course What Physicists Do. |
Carleton College, MN, April 2010. |
| Exploring Easy and Effective Ways to use PheT’s Interactive Simulations.A series of 1-hour workshops on the interactive simulations online at phet.colorado.edu, plus strategies for designing classroom activities. PDF of talk. |
NSTA Phoenix, December 2009NSTA, Minneapolis, October 2009 |
| What Every Teacher Should Know about Cognitive ResearchAn overview of education research relevant to classroom practice. PDF of talk. |
Comp. Sci GK12 program, February 2010.CSC Denver, November 2009 |
| Clickers in Upper-Division Courses, S. Chasteen, S. Pollock & K. PerkinsOne hour workshop on effective clicker use, with focus on upper-division courses. PDF of talk. |
Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT); Boulder, CO, August 2009 |
| Thinking Like a Physicist: Transforming Junior-Level Electricity & Magnetism, S. Chasteen, S. Pollock, M. Dubson, E. Kinney, P. Beale and K. PerkinsA series of talks outlining an innovative approach to teaching upper-level physics courses, and assessment of curriculum effectiveness.
All related PDFs of posters and |
AAPT, Ann Arbor MI, July 2009PERC, Ann Arbor MI, July 2009APS Regional, Denver, March 2009AAPT New England, Durham, NH, October 2009 AAPT & PERC, Edmonton |
| Cognitive Issues in Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism, S. Chasteen & S. Pollock.Invited poster on particular learning difficulties in E&M. PDF. |
PERC, Ann Arbor MI, July 2009 |
| Tapping into Juniors’ Understanding of Electricity & Magnetism: Development of the Colorado Upper-division Electrostatics (CUE) Assessment. S. Chasteen & S. Pollock.Poster describing development and validation of conceptual survey. PDF. |
PERC, Ann Arbor MI, July 2009 |
| Learning About Science Teaching
Presentation on active engagement and clickers for |
Adams 12 School District science coordinator meeting, Thornton CO, May 2009 |
| Flirt Harder, I’m a PhysicistMy experiences as a woman in science, and discussion of the challenges and quandries facing women in science. |
Women in JILA meeting; Boulder, CO, May 2009 |
| Clickers in Upper-Division Courses, S. Chasteen, K. Perkins, S. Pollock & M. Dubson.Invited talk on strategies and assessments for using clickers in junior-level courses. |
Invited talk, AAPT; Chicago IL, February 2009. |
| Go with the Flow: Solid Ways to Teach Fluids. Hands-on workshop about water and fluids. Workshop handouts |
CSC, Denver CO, November 2008 |
| Assessing student understanding in upper-division undergraduate Electricity & Magnetism 1. Preliminary results of course transformations and assessments. Download poster here. |
PERC; Edmonton, July 2008 |
| Demonstrations and Ideas from the ExploratoriumDownload handouts in PDF or Doc (clickable links in Doc). Here are the Vanna pictures right-side-up and upside-down and original. |
AAPT, Denver CO, April 2008 |
| Using and making audio podcasts in the mathematics classroom. Download handouts and Powerpoint (both PDFs). |
California Mathematics Council (CMC); Asilomar, CA, December 2007 |
| Get the word out: Podcasting, blogging, and my life as a scientist communicator. General discussion of my career, and general principles, in science communication. PDF of talk |
Invited presentation: Ecological Society of America; San Jose, CA, August 2007 |
| Attack of the Podpeople! Using and making podcasts in education.Using podcasts in an academic setting, and good communication skills. PDF of talk, the Head harp activity and Handouts. |
Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, July 2007 |
| Hear Me Out! Communicating nanotechnology through podcasts Audio podcasts allow the public to hear scientists’ and policy makers’ opinions and research in this challenging area. Download the poster from this conference.
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Communicating Science to Broader Audiences; Lincoln, NE, April 2007 |
| Attack of the Podpeople! Using and making podcasts in the classroom.Listening to, downloading, and making podcasts in the classroom. The Exploratorium workshop, a half-day workshop, included creating a collaborative class podcast.Download PDF of handouts, Head harp activity, Editing using Audacity, or Editing using Garageband. |
CCSF Math, Science, Technology Conference, San Francisco, June 2007Exploratorium, March 2007 |
| Sparking excitement for electricity: Electrostatic activities that work A series of hands-on electrostatics activities. Download handout. |
Council of Math/Science Educators of San Mateo County; San Mateo, CA, March 2007 |
| Surface Area and Volume.
Online iVisit workshop on the relationship of surface |
Exploratorium, February 2007 |
| SmallTalk: Communicating nanotechnology to the public Our work on SmallTalk and communicating nanotechnology to the public. PDF of talk. |
AAPTJanuary, 2007 |
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