It has been a while since my last list post, and I feel like focusing more on my mission for this blog. With this in mind, I would like to share a list of my favorite resources for physics teaching and physics education research (PER). Hopefully some of these are familiar, and if you use [...]
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Physics Education Resources
Posted in college, open access, physics, teaching, tagged education, physics, research, teaching on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Octave on Mac
Posted in college, computing, links, matlab, open source software, physics, teaching on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been interested in GNU Octave for a while, although never bothered to play much since I had access to recent Matlab releases while I was at Duke. Now that I am managing my own software budget, and trying to keep it to $0, I have a new found appreciation for Open Source Software. [...]
Sustainable Electronics
Posted in college, physics, teaching, tagged design, electronics, physics, sustainability on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This fall Physics 364 (Electronics) will have a project component. Pacific has chosen Sustainability as a campus-wide theme for this academic year, and with this in mind, I will encourage the class to consider projects that explore the application of technology (electronics, physical computing, etc.) to improving sustainability. This can be challenging as technology is [...]
It’s not you, it’s my funding
Posted in college, physics, teaching on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am wrapping up my first year and recently faced the most difficult decision of my time here. Of course, there have been easy decisions and hard decisions all year, but they were all things that I expected from deciding to fail a smart student who turns in no homework to how do I respond [...]
