Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Mar 15th, 2009
I am in Pittsburgh at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting until Tuesday. Today was a series of workshops and talks on Physics Education Research (PER) as part of the pre-APS meeting for the Physics Teachers Education Coalition (PTEC). First, I arrived last night (Saturday) and spent the evening the same way I always [...]
Next semester I will be attempting something new in our general education, conceptual physics course here at Longwood University. I plan on implementing Lillian McDermott’s Physics by Inquiry (PbI) … with a twist. The suggested enrollment for such a course is 20 students, with 1 instructor and 1-3 teaching assistants. My course next semester will [...]
Mar 9th, 2009
WordPress, which powers the blog, has been upgraded to v2.7.1. Next up will be the forum software. I’m still toying with the idea of going with WordPress MU. I like the new theme because it fits with my simplistic web ideology. Obviously, the image to the left will be updated with a more appropriate image [...]
Mar 1st, 2009
The site is now moved on to the new servers. If you are reading this post, then the DNS stuff has propagated. Of course, there are still MANY little bugs due to the move. One that I know of is LaTeX is not working in the forms. I’m sure more will surface. The good news [...]