Unit planners on ManageBac
My school has recently subscribed to ManageBac so I have had to start adding unit planners for my classes. It's up to your school as to how much you have to fill in but I think my school has all the boxes...
Interactive textbook
After all my experimenting with interactive video and presentations I came to the conclusion that the most efficient form is text + animation interspersed with questions. Well we already have the text...
Best of both worlds
Thanks to Jennifer Large Smith from the Facebook IB physics teachers group, I have discovered edpuzzle. This gives a simple way to add questions to ready made presentations. So, I will make presentations...
3rd time lucky
I wasn't happy with my attempts at interactive video so I tried again this time with Google slides. I used gifs instead of video which gives a cleaner result. The gifs loop which is fine for repeating...
Today's interaction
This isn't really today's interaction it is yesterdays, it maybe only 1 min 30s long but it took ages to put together. I think the reduced narration with captions works well. I always ask my students...
Interactive video
I have been experimenting with adding multiple choice quizzes to video. I think this has great potential but they are not easy to make. The narration is particularly challenging hence my minimalist approach....
Was the SL paper 2 too difficult?
There has been a lot of discussion on the IB physics teachers group about the difficulty of the physics exam in particular the SL exam, this has been provoked by the low grade boundaries in the 2 papers....
Research update
I've come a long way since my Master's research on girls and post-compulsory physics that found its way into Tes magazine (for those who prefer 10-minute reads) and online (even shorter!). In 2017 I commenced...
3 Wheel thing (Veritasium)
In my last post, Good to be wrong (sometimes), I wrote about Veritasium's video about the wind powered car that can travel faster than the wind. In the video an analogy is made with the 3 wheeled thing...
Good to be wrong (sometimes)
The image shows Blackbird, a car that can go faster than the wind that's propelling it. It features in Veritasium's video below. It worked but Professor Kusenko didn't believe it and bet $10,000 dollars...