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More teaching ideas from teachers tv

ozymandias1 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:33:29 +0000

My friend Dee Maguire reminded me recently of some very useful videos on teachers tv of physics teacher David Robinson in action. Some of these are also on youtube:

The magnetic gun is also referred to as a ‘Gaussian gun’.
We had a bit of fun puting a basic one together at the end of class the other day.

Other video clips of David demonstrating can be found here on teachers tv; the radioactivity clip is particularly impressive.

You can also enter his name into the youtube seachbox for other demonstrations.

Thanks Dee

Learning to podcast

ozymandias1 — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:38:13 +0000

This is a short audio about forces for my Second Year students revising for Summer Exams. I did a bit of podcasting a few years ago but have forgotten how I made the pieces accessable. I also need to learn how to jazz these things up a bit.
This piece is hosted on the wordpress site itself, but I’d like to make it accessable via itunes. I tried this and five days ago received the following

Your podcast feed, [ http://ozymandias1.wordpress.com/feed/ ] was successfully added and is now under review.

Since then, nothing.

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