by Pamela | May 15, 2009 | Teaching
The semester is over. My grades are posted. My students have received their grades. I am 3 forms (paperwork will kill me) from starting my summer. And I plan to play a bit, write a lot, travel too much, and try and remember how to jump horses over itty bitty fences...
by Pamela | Dec 2, 2008 | Personal
As I think I’ve mentioned before, this semester I’m teaching good old fashioned physics. More specifically, I’m teaching the second semester (E&M) half of calculas-based physics for scientists and engineers. I somehow ended up with a class of 47...
by Pamela | Oct 16, 2008 | Personal
I think I might have mentioned on this blog a couple of times that one of the classes I sometimes teach is physics for elementary education majors. All told, I have probably interacted with 100 different education students across a couple different years....
by Pamela | Aug 25, 2008 | Personal
Monday is the first day of a new semester. I’ll be teaching just one class this semester (the rest of my time is going to IYA), second semester calculus based physics for Scientists and Engineers. This will be my first time teaching this course, although...
by Pamela | Jul 20, 2008 | Personal
Last Friday I looked at my calendar and had the terrifying realization that I had 3 days of freedom before I started a long series of trips that would culminate in the first day of classes. Then I realized it was July 18, not July 25, and that I actually had 1 week...