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Re: physics in the times of plague

Hi Mike,

  Thanks for your email, and for info on what you find is working as far as communicating with students, ie Google Hangouts. I’m planning to use Zoom and my iPad as my “white board”—the iPad is connecting as a participant w/o audio/video, but sharing the screen, while I use my computer or phone for audio/video. 
  Do you have any experience, yet, with what is a good way for the students to work in small groups on projects, where they can share calculations etc? Anyone else who has any experience with this, please feel free to chime in, as we all are moving to on-line/remote learning.

Cheers,
Per

PS Scott, let me know and we’ll arrange a virtual visit to Coe-Brown once things settle down.

On Mar 20, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Michael Hirsh (NHS) <michael_hirsh needham k12 ma us> wrote:

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HI 

Great to hear from you actually.  Theorynet went dark and I have not heard any follow up since our September meeting.  I think if this wears on into May, it would be a nice opportunity to do something different.  Zoom works, but I have been using (and intend to use) Google Hangouts.  It is nice - all I have to do is send a link and it appear that an unlimited number of participants can just click the link.  There are no apps to download.  Participant see a video image of whoever is talking or the host can switch the screen to show all of part of what is on the desktop.

Next week I will just be re-establishing contact with students (for some reason I was told to wait until 3/23).  But sometime after that a video lecture or question session might be a nice distraction  for students.

Mike

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:42 AM Taylor, Tomasz <t taylor northeastern edu> wrote:

Thank Ken for your input. The ball is on teachers side as usual. I am worried that nobody responded to my message, but I guess everybody is very busy reorganizing their lives. I will repeat it next week.

Best regards,

Tom

From: Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:09:11 AM
To: Taylor, Tomasz <t taylor northeastern edu>
Cc: physicstheorynet cosmos phy tufts edu <physicstheorynet cosmos phy tufts edu>
Subject: Re: physics in the times of plague

 

Hi, Tom and all.  I know nothing about the technical aspects of online
classes (and since I'm not teaching I have not had to learn).  But in
terms of organization I wonder if it would be best to keep the
physicist/teacher pairings that we have and work within whatever system
is being used by the schools.  I've seen everything from a regular
school day with classes taught by Zoom to very little activity.  Maybe
physicists could fit ourselves into whatever online system is being used
by each school.

Thoughts?

                                        Ken

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