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Whoops part 2
If you remember from last time, I calculated the amount of work being exerted by an aerial faith plate, then used my answer to calculate the distance a projectile would fly. I asserted that if I could...
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success!
I’m feeling really good right now. After about a year of work, I finally got a full class of students playing Portal! My physics students played Portal 2 for an hour in class yesterday. On Friday,...
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one week of teaching with portals
Here are three student made levels from the first week of playing Portal 2 in physics. You’ll see they’re simple with extraneous objects and obvious objectives, which isn’t surprising given that they...
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ISTE 2013, ScienceOnline 2013, and GAME Webinar
Yours truly will be making a few public appearances in the upcoming months as I, along with two other educators, travel the country (a little bit) expounding on the idea of video games as classroom...
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is portal 2 a useful teaching tool? part 2
If you missed it, make sure you check out the first part in this series on Portal 2′s classroom impact: Student Interest. Let’s talk Portal 2 from the teacher’s perspective. As a physics teacher, can I...
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student projects part 2
Here’s another level a student created as part of my fall semester exam. Though this level may not have been the most exciting, it still clearly demonstrates three different aspects of mechanics. Along...
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SXSW Education and #scio13 review
Two announcements: 1) There’s a great review of the #scigames session Erik and I ran last month at ScienceOnline 2013 up at Perrin Ireland’s Science Scribe blog. It’s definitely worth the read! 2) I...
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Interview with Daniel V part 1
Teachers aren’t the only people trying to get Portal 2 into classrooms. It’s only natural that students too are pressuring their teachers and schools to try out video games in the classroom. One 11th...
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