Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.

I’m at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for the 2011 AAPT Summer Meeting. There tends to be a lot of down time during these things, so I’ll probably kill time blogging about the things I find interesting. I decide that I would stay in the dorms this time around, so that I could save my [...]

I will be at the AAPT Winter Meeting in January where I will give a talk about the conceptual physics course we have been developing (more here and here.) The main point of the talk is to look at the data and answer the question posed in the title. The answer to that question is [...]

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 [...]

I’m back in Farmville after spending the weekend in College Park, MD being taught how to teach. (Technically, I’m in Richmond working on research right now, but I will be in Farmville tonight.) I didn’t get an opportunity to blog about the workshop much as it was going, because the schedule was very dense and [...]

I attended two workshops today on funding: the first for the National Science Foundation and the second for the private Research Corporation. Just these two workshops were worth the price of admission for this conference. The first 15 minutes of the NSF workshop was boring organizational charts outlining deadlines and other stuff that I know [...]

I have arrived in Maryland for the American Association of Physics Teachers New Faculty workshop. I have a lot to learn this weekend, and I will try to keep you posted on what juicy bits I come across. In about an hour I’ll be attending a Grant Opportunities workshop with the National Science Foundation and [...]