I know I married the right guy because it’s a 3-day weekend and we’re trash talking how the default Google Slides dark layout is dark gray instead of black. 🖤

Organizing these lab computers might be the most visually pleasing thing I have ever done 🌈 #EduSky

This article tired me out and it’s only Jan 7 edsource.org/2025/college...

Best thing about getting married in 2024 is saying my husband could get me the ✨most perfect gift✨

@drewmagary.bsky.social Hey. 👋 Your dad was my dad’s cousin with the same name and we are the SF branch of the Magary family, who are admirers of your writing. If you’re ever in SF for work (idk if SFGate makes you travel to the west coast) feel free to reach out.

Let's think about the disparity of education resources in this country: Which kids are going to get an AI tutor and which kids are going to get a teacher?

@pnwphysics.bsky.social I liked your Vernier sensor applications article! The carseat experiment was great! #ITeachPhysics

The rumor mill continues to run wild. Just had this exchange: S: I didn't wear my nicest clothes in my video, but if I change into them for class can I get the extra credit bonus for wearing a suit? Me: 😐

I suppose the sign you've been a teacher for a while is when the weird things that have happened to you before happen again. Like it is now 2x in my career that I have had to tell students "no haircuts in class after standardized testing" 🤷‍♀️ #EduSky

SF Bay Area folks, we are getting ready for our December performances. We do fun physics demos for kids! Get your tickets at www.thephysicsshow.com Our proceeds go to supporting science outreach for Title 1 ("free lunch") schools. Tell your friends!

I do not recommend going to school recovering from food poisoning, not even for one period. But my student made me these #iteachphysics cookies (there’s a density one below) and it’s so cute. I just wish I could eat them. 🥺

Bsky team were planning for "future owner is an adversary" not recognising that "current owners are one Peter Thiel phonecall from being an adversary" also should have been a risk on the table.

If I don’t put a due date on something on Canvas, it might as well not exist for my students. So why am I getting an email asking for a letter of rec by 10pm tonight because the student forgot to add me as a recommender (on Naviance) until now? 😔

Join us Wednesday, 12/11, at 5:00 PM PST for the Physics with Phones @Home free online workshop. LLNL scientist Dave Rakestraw and I investigate rotation. Intended for HS and college intro physics teachers. Zoom link and more info can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1s1BF... #ITeachPhysics

Pretty sure a lot of my followers are bots but I’m too lazy to figure out which ones and I don’t want another incident like the one two weeks ago where I accidentally blocked my husband.

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

Help I’m doing an angle-of-sunlight lab on Tuesday (reason for the seasons) and yesterday I couldn’t find the special non-reflective protractors I made for this. Anyone have a good setup for use with light sensors? #iTeachPhysics

Perfect launching point (no pun intended) for orbital motion/free fall discussion tomorrow #ITeachPhysics

The best thing a student can possibly tell me is that they can't stop thinking about physics. #iTeachPhysics "I lie awake on my mattress thinking about Hooke's Law." YES. 💤 "I helped my gym buddies using torque" YES.🏋️ "I brake before curves now." THIS IS ACTUALLY THE GOAL. 🚗

I relaxed too much on break and now I’m paying the price. 😖 Anyone else in this position? #Edusky

Did you know that scientists no longer use the Richter Scale to measure earthquake magnitude? Now, we tend to use the “Moment Magnitude (Mw)” scale, which was built off of the tenets of the Richter scale. 🧪 ⚒️

Apropos of nothing, any #ITeachPhysics people (particularly those who teach classes with a lot of aspiring engineers), do you discuss ethics in your class at all?

The more I do either one, the more I see sameness in what it takes to do a good job teaching a class and what it takes to do a good job of GMing a TTRPG. Neither will go how you expected, so don't overprepare to railroad them but if you underprepare it will show.

This is my go to sentence stem when a graph is involved. I have these posters I made in my room that students constantly reference.

I think it might help to back up a bit in discussions about classroom practice. As in... what are we trying to achieve? Are we all agreed? On what it would look like if we'd done a good job? I wonder, in the case of science, if we'd agree the attributes of a student with whom we'd succeeded.

When I got my watch in 2018, it was lifechanging because I’m absentminded and set voice reminders for myself. (I don’t carry my phone when teaching.) Let’s see how my reminders are going… 🤔

The Teacher Union Organizers and Education Association Leaders Starter Pack is now 60+ strong after some recent adds. Welcome, @parso81.bsky.social @kristenrec.bsky.social & @marisolgarciaaz.bsky.social We’re stronger together! go.bsky.app/AjeZG6X

As I was handing out tests this morning, a student showed me his arm and said, "I write the derivation for a banked curve on my arm on Monday in Sharpie and now I can't wash it off." There's no banked curves on this test. 🤷‍♀️ I gave him some masking tape to put over it. #ITeachPhysics

I love the problem solving part of physics. I love the problem solving part of teaching. AI has advantages, but there are LOTS of costs. KIDS still have GROWING minds that are DEVELOPING towards good problem solving and discernment. At the rate it’s growing, there’s no responsible classroom use w/Ss

I paused for a moment and almost considered purchasing this for…. Something…. In class

Too many teachers don’t know the power of spreadsheets! They are my workhorse. #EduSkyChat

THEY ARE MAKING THE MINERALOGY LEGO SET, DEMOCRACY WORKS

Sometimes there are science museum exhibits I really want to take home. This seafloor spreading one from the Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene is definitely on my list. #ITeachPhysics

I saw an educator starter pack that when I scrolled through, was almost entirely admin, influencers, coaches, edtech people, and motivational speakers. Almost no one currently in the classroom. This is pretty much the opposite of why I go to edu-related social media. #EduSky

I signed up to be an AP reader and had to do my onboarding yesterday including having my husband be my witness for the I-9 form. Anyway, he thinks I'm in a secret society now and asked if the College Board has a ring or seal or something that I get access to. 🫠 #EduSky

I just got a bunch of new follows from old friends, so I assume everyone finally realized how bad Twitter got and it’s time for my triumphant return to social media?

Just spending my Sunday morning looking up geology maps of potential wedding venues. Always do the important research. ⛏️⛰️

#EduSky: Random Team Generator! New: Add pairs of Ss that cannot work in the same group, & be alerted if the random groups has one of those pairs. - Free w/ no ads - Save many groups in same file - Checkboxes for absences - Editable names & color to match classroom - Set # of groups or group size

An advertisement for reading from a student: “Not gonna lie, I usually just skim the readings but this time I actually sat and really read it and the textbook had some pretty good stuff in it. You should tell people that!” 😆🎢

Everything about the Cybertruck could be a high school momentum and impulse lesson, part 2. 🎢

It kind of bothers me how organization for students has fallen completely onto the teacher to the point of, if you forget to set a due date on the LMS, that becomes an excuse for students not to do it even if you told them in class, wrote it on the board, put it in a module, etc. 🎢

Bless their hearts, my AP Physics students haven't discovered that actual college students normally half-ass Canvas discussions and really are responding to each other and this prompt very seriously. 🥲 🎢

I can finally spill the beans! Kurt Burmeister & I have been working for months digitizing a set of Thomas Sopwith's 1841 hand-carved geology block models now housed at the Killhope Museum. Lina Jakaité animated the models into this amazing video for #GSA2023. 1/n ⚒️🧪 youtu.be/eW9qgzafPSc?...

To colleges who had October 15 admissions deadlines for fall semester of next year: who do you think you are and why do you think you're special? 🫠 #EduSky #AcademicSky

Just viewing the (partial) eclipse through nature’s pinholes 🌙🌿

🎢 Physics people who teach 11th/12th graders, can you tell me your letter of recommendation secrets on how to keep the numbers down? I have way too many to write this year. I thought I'd have fewer because I only taught 3 sections of physics classes last year but it's actually higher than ever 😱 📈

Not me failing this multiple choice homework question on weather and seasons for my German class because in San Francisco this is every month/season. 🙃 (The options were Winter, February, August, October)

FYI for #ITeachPhysics people who do a lot of student whiteboarding in class, Amazon has a great deal on Expo markers in their sale rn, 36 pack for $17 https://a.co/d/8prwGTu

I guess I’m glad I don’t work at one of these schools where teachers have to pay to wear jeans, because I’m being evaluated tomorrow and it also happens to be Denim Day for spirit week 👖(which I’m prepared for nearly every day)

Me for last 6 weeks: Be clear about what tools you are using and how you are using them in the experimental design and remember there is only one meter in a meter stick. Student's response: "Use the measurement stick to collect data" 🎢