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[Phys-l] Portland Oregon workshop on video capture and analysis



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.

The next five-day LivePhoto workshop will meet July 12-16, 2010 in Portland, Oregon, before the 2010 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 workshop will be provided by the NSF for university and 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.

For application forms or more information visit
<http://livephoto.rit.edu/workshops/> or contact Robert.Teese@rit.edu.

Sample LivePhoto curricular materials are available at
<http://www.vernier.com/cmat/pva.html>.

--Pat Cooney