by Pamela | Aug 4, 2007 | Personal
I have to admit that while I am normally an early and avid adopter of new technologies, Second Life has generally confused me. My avatar is ugly. I tend to wander lost. In a desperate attempt to become one of the cool techno kids who get this virtual world...
by Pamela | Aug 3, 2007 | Personal
Currently I’m sitting in the opening session of the ASP’s Cosmos in the Classroom. This is a much smaller and younger conference than the AAPT meeting from earlier this week. Looking around this room of people with mostly non-gray hair, I see a lot of old...
by Pamela | Aug 2, 2007 | Personal
After spending the beginning of the week in the Eastern time zone at the AAPT meeting in Greensboro, NC, I am now planning to spend the second half of my week in the Pacific time zone attending the ASP’s Cosmos in the Classroom meeting in Pomona, CA. I’m...
by Pamela | Aug 1, 2007 | Personal
I never cease to be amazed at the differences in website appearances from browser to browser. I’d come up with a web design I didn’t totally like, but I could live with, for Firefox and Safari. After getting some comments on its horribleness in Opera, I...
by Pamela | Jul 31, 2007 | Personal
Today I was part of a session on family-friendly policies in academia (policies that promote healthy policies that allow faculty to not have to choose between family and work). My role was small – I recorded a digital video of one of the presenters because she...
by Pamela | Jul 30, 2007 | Personal
Today I attended a pair of excellent presentations by award winners Gerry Wheeler and Neil deGrasse Tyson (shown with me at AAS last January). Both, in very different ways, challenged the audience of physics (and astronomy) teachers and professors to not just instill...
