Following footsteps
I recently had the great privilege of being selected to speak at an event hosted by some of my students: TEDxUWCRCN.
This was special because the event's theme (RETHINK) allowed me to do what I love: make physics interesting and accessible. In this case, I was eager to zoom in and out on something ordinary to demonstrate how, using the lens of physics, it can become extraordinary.
I chose 'water', using sticky notes to visualise ice, a Pink Floyd album cover when discussing liquid water, and a mass on a spring to explain what makes water vapour a greenhouse gas.
And this was, of course, all made even more special because I wasn't the first physics teacher to speak in the event's history.
Chris got there first.
His presentation from 2016 shows what he does best - making people laugh, telling stories and drawing the audience in - while explaining how he was adapting as a physics teacher through the use of technology.
It's perhaps when life by the fjord is at its most hectic that we ought to lean in most to the interests that led us here in the first place.