Category: science
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Teacher in Space: August 2007!
In creating a list of links related to NASA, space exploration, and Mars today (for some teachers and students making videoconference connections next week with NASA’s Digital Learning Network) I discovered that NASA’s STS-118 mission is scheduled to launch in August 2007 with the first teacher in space: Barbara Morgan. Barbara Morgan was the backup…
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Time to motivate tomorrow’s aerospace engineers is today
The May 14, 2007 edition of our local Edmond Sun newspaper carried an article on page 2 titled, “Aerospace fueling economy.” (I can’t find a link to the actual article online, unfortunately.) Several things from the article stood out for me. Aerospace engineering jobs are very important in Oklahoma. According to the article: The aerospace…
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Science Data Logging with Pasco tools
These are my notes from the METC presentation “The Ultimate Science Data Logger: Xplorer GLX” by Jason Carnes (an education rep for for PASCO Scientific. I’m recording this session for a later podcast.) Sensors have auto-ID, so when you plug in the temperature, pH and ISE Voltage sensor the data logger Data logger holds 100…
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Podcast130: Interactive, Digital Science Explorations Using Pasco Probeware and Software
This podcast features an interview from the exhibit hall of TCEA 2007. I interviewed two of the representatives of Pasco, a company which manufactures over sixty different types of sensors and probeware for use in digitally-enhanced scientific experiments. These devices can feed data to Palms as well as Windows or Macintosh computers, and permit students…
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They laughed when I told them how I beat stress!
This are my notes from Dr. Lynell Burmark’s presentation at TCEA 2007 on 2/9/2007. Lynell’s website: www.educatebetter.org All of us know that just because you fail one test you are not a failure, right?! Hopefully we’ll have some laughs and some serious moments today – also we will talk about some tools we can use…
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NASA Digital Learning Network: NASA in Your Classroom
These are my notes from this session at TCEA 2007 in Austin, Texas, on February 8, 2007. NASA – Digital Learning Network NASA’s learning network is hoping to get on Internet2, but are still working on that – now accept IP and ISDN videoconference calls The purpose of our network is to inspire the next…
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A third grader reflects on Albert Einstein
My son and I created a short, almost fourteen minute podcast this evening about Albert Einstein which we titled, “Einstein’s Contributions and Interesting Quirks.” We posted this to the Talking Science podcasting project. As of yet we have not received any additional submissions to this podcasting project– I haven’t spent a great deal of time…
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Idea cross-pollination and inspiring scientists
Several months ago, I listened to a wonderful podcast featuring a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jonathan McDowell about “NASA’s Vision for Human Space Exploration.” The podcast was memorable on several accounts. These included: The importance of ideological cross-pollination between people of different disciplines (in this case scientists) needs to be remembered. Without idea…
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Icebound!
We’re icebound in northern Oklahoma City (Edmond where I live) with snow expected later today. Winter is falling! The local weather and news people live for days like this I think. It’s like we’ve had a hurricane and the news reporters are on the coastline reporting as it makes landfall, or there is a war…
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Flow, curiosity, and engaging education
I am continuing to read “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and am seeing lots of connections for educators and learners. At the outset of chapter 4, Csikszentmihalyi summarizes the “common characteristics of optimal experience” or flow: …a sense that one’s skills are adequate to cope with the challenges at hand, in…