Monday, July 26, 2010

Having Fun with Electric Circuits

Screen Shot of Our Webpage
Screen Shot of Our Webpage

In the same Technology for Science Teaching class last Spring, our final project was to develop a teaching unit for four days on our desired topic using the different technologies we learned from the course. My groupmate and I not only developed the unit but also created this webpage to post our work. It served as a different kind of presentation format. We decided to merge chemistry and physics in this unit. Click here to go to the webpage.

My First YouTube Video: Formation of Fog


Makeshift Tripod

My professor in Technology for Science Teaching last spring semester gave us an assignment on using video clips as a tool for teaching science. In this assignment, I grabbed the opportunity of the first snow fall of Year 2010 in Athens, Georgia. I stacked two empty boxes on a chair to serve as my makeshift tripod and used my Sony DSC-W230 12.1 megapixels digital camera to take videos. Then I used iMovie 09 of Macintosh to edit and put the clips together, add some text and still pictures, and add some video effects. Here is the result: