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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: APS, Ed Prather, peer instruction, PER, PTEC, ranking tasks, Tutorials
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