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Shall we do some physics on the moon?

10/30/2013

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Of course we shall.  Today, we analyze the 1971 Apollo 15 Feather and Hammer Drop Experiment performed by Astronaut David Scott.  Thanks NASA!

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Buster

10/28/2013

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Today I took the living creature that I spend the most time with to an animal ophthalmologist.  He is here with me as I write every script, edit every video and this post.  I found out that Buster, our labradoodle, has a cataract and detached retina in his left eye.  There are only three places in the United States that perform a detached retina surgery on animals and well, that puts it out of the range of possibility for the Thomas-Palmer household.  So I am sad to inform you that our dog Buster is now, and will always be, mono-ocular.  Sorry, Buster.
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little g

10/28/2013

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Today's lesson is a staple in the diet of any physics student; the introduction to freely falling objects.  An extension of Uniformly Accelerated Motion, Free-Fall is just UAM where we already know one of the UAM variables.  Today I get to introduce so many of my favorites: the medicine ball, the vacuum that you can breathe and, of course, little g.
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A big Thank You to Jeff Stanzler and the MAC Program

10/25/2013

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A big Thank You to Jeff Stanzler for inviting me to speak last night at my Alma Mater, the University of Michigan.  I am especially thankful for all the MAC students who patiently listened to me wax eloquent for 90 minutes about my journey from classroom teacher to Flipping Physics.  Okay, "wax eloquent" is probably a bit facetious and "patiently listened" also doesn't well describe my audience because they were a very active audience, asking lots of questions, which I love.  It was awesome to be a presenter in a class that I took 14 years ago.  So thanks.  Thanks for giving me an opportunity to talk about my craft.

FYI: MAC stands for Master of Arts with teacher Certification

Here are some pictures I shared with the group that show where and how I film my videos:
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Bobby. (FYI: There is only one of me.)
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This is what Bobby sees. Note the script taped to the wall.
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Setup to film mr.p. Note the institutional blue wall background on the far right.
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What does it mean to flip a class? (a visual answer)

10/16/2013

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I am so excited about today's video!  really, i am.  I started filming it 19 months ago and I can finally, conclusively, visually explain the differences between a Traditional and a Flipped Classroom.  I took videos of a Traditional Class and a Flipped Class, filmed 1 year apart covering approximately the same topics.  I put both videos on the screen and talk about the differences.  Enjoy.
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Video Production Still.

10/15/2013

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as always, more graphs.

10/11/2013

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My favorite part of today's new video is @ 2:42 when Geneve walks the graph.  One issue that students have with understanding graphs is that sometimes, even though time is progressing and there is a line, nothing is happening.  I think I was able to show this pretty well by superimposing a figure of Geneve on the graph.  Check it out … 
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The Humility Soapbox – Uniformly vs. Uniformally

10/10/2013

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This is much more personal than my average video.  I talk about my spelling inadequacies. (yes, i just spelled inadiquacies incorrectly, spell check fixed it, arg.) I use it as a tool to talk about admitting you don't understand as an important tool for learning.

A note to all my high school english teachers; Mrs. Graham, Mr. Froyslyn & Mrs. Mitchell.  I tried really hardly in english in high school.  Even though I never did well, I learned a lot and I thank you.  I appreciate your teaching much more now than I did then.  So thank you.
p.s. The "really hardly" is a joke.  My kids used to use that phrase when they were younger, somehow they thought adding the "ly" to hard made it better.  It also reminds me that Geneve decided when she was 3 that the singular form of box was bock.  Think about it, it really sounds correct.

Plural => Singular
trees => tree
legs => leg
cups => cup
box => bock

sounds right, doesn't it?
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Acting?

10/2/2013

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Rather than talk about the physics of the new video (slightly more complicated UAM problem with two interconnected parts), I want to talk about my acting.
Oh yeah, my acting.
I have been working on, with my wife's help, what my characters do when they are not talking and how they interact.  Notice how @ 13:30 Billy and Bobby basically have a quiet race to see who can use their calculator faster and Bo is just disgusted by it.  Although I think my favorite moment in the video happens @ 12:10 when Bo notices a pencil on his desk.  Yep, who knew I was going to be an actor?  Or maybe not.
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    Yep, I make physics videos in the hope that you can learn physics.  If you are a physics teacher, I am very hopeful that you will want to use them to help flip your physics class.

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