Video capture and analysis of real-world phenomena offer engaging and
effective educational tools for helping instructors enhance their students'
learning in lectures, tutorials, assignments, labs and undergraduate
research. The LivePhoto Group is offering a series of NSF-supported
workshops to assist college and university instructors in using interactive
video analysis with their students. These workshops will include activities
in mechanics, thermal physics, wave propagation, E&M and optics using high
quality video clips produced by the LivePhoto Group. For example, students
can now measure Doppler frequency shifts in sound as a function of source
speed or they can learn about the interference patterns in slinky waveforms
moving at speeds up to 5 m/s.
Our next two workshops will be:
- A five day workshop: June 8-12, 2009 at Rochester Institute of
Technology in Rochester, NY.
- A three-day workshop: July 22-24, 2009 in Ann Arbor, MI, before the 2009
AAPT Summer Meeting.
The workshop staff includes Bob Teese (RIT), Priscilla Laws (Dickinson
College), Patrick Cooney (Millersville U.) and Maxine Willis (Dickinson
College).
Lodging and meals at the workshops will be provided by the NSF for
university/college faculty, lab managers and instructional staff from US
institutions teaching in any SMET discipline. Participants' home
institutions will be expected to support travel to the workshop, but those
who demonstrate need and teach under-represented students may apply for a
partial travel stipend.
Visit < http://livephoto.rit.edu/workshops/> for additional information and
application forms. The deadline to apply for either of these workshops is
March 17th, 2009.