Monthly Archives: October 2014

Day 25: Testing out the high speed camera on the iPhone6

Posted on October 13, 2014 by John Burk

Seems like the new iPhone6 camera is going to be pretty great for physics class. Special bonus: Two students from honors physics last year dropped by class and jumped right into lab work. It was great to see how quickly … Continue reading →

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Day 22: Circuit puzzles

Posted on October 10, 2014 by John Burk

In Intro Physics we’ve started working on circuits using a modified version of the CASTLE materials and students encountered a question about which bulb in a two bulbs in series circuit would light first. This led to a lot of … Continue reading →

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Day 23: Recommendations & proofreading help

Posted on October 9, 2014 by John Burk

For the past week or so it’s been rec time all the time. I ended up with 14 college recs and our school has an internal deadline where they are all due early in the year. I thought I might … Continue reading →

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Day 21: Gist, Slack and coding roulette

Posted on October 6, 2014 by John Burk

In Computer Science 3, we’ve been truing to find an authentic way to get students to better understand the value of good coding habits, like carefully naming their functions, and including comments. So my co-teacher and I decided to try … Continue reading →

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