I was today one of 28 Tufts faculty to be awarded with an “honorable mention” at the 2013 Tufts Teaching with Technology Symposium. This mini-conference brought together faculty and staff from all schools and disciplines at Tufts to share how we’re using technology effectively to enhance learning in our classrooms. What’s great […]
Last semester, I saw a colloquium by Judah Schwartz from the Education department at Tufts University. Judah was one of the co-authors of a classic paper Computer-Generated Motion Pictures of One-Dimensional Quantum-Mechanical Transmission and Reflection Phenomena from 1967. He and his co-authors used an IBM 7094 and a CDC 3600 to numerically solve […]
A signature component of Tim Atherton’s introductory classes for several years now has been the incorporation of Digital Storytelling video projects. Students in my Modern Physics class at Tufts were asked, as a semester long project, to collaboratively create a short YouTube video explaining a topic within the scope of the class to a high […]
The Tufts Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching has announced that Tim Atherton is one of several Tufts faculty from across all schools who will participate in the Faculty Fellows program for the Fall semester of 2012.
Participants in the program meet fortnightly to learn about ways to enhance learning in their […]
I went this week to Washington, DC to participate in the NSF-funded workshop for new Physics Faculty, some of the presentations for which can be found here. These workshops have been instrumental in introducing physics faculty to new, research based pedagogical techniques and helping them enhance the learning that takes place in their […]
Tufts Math professor Moon Duchin asked me to come up with a simple way for her class to use Mathematica to visualize functions of complex variables for her Complex Analysis class.
Each coordinate in the plane, can be mapped onto a complex number, e.g. (1,1) maps to 1+i. A complex function is something […]
One of the most important things scientists can do is to explain science to the general public. It’s also one of the hardest—and that’s why Tim Atherton has made science communication a key part of his introductory physics classes. Students were asked to work in groups over the course of the semester to plan and […]
Many of the mathematical objects I work with are extremely hard to visualize in your head. Tools like Mathematica are certainly a great help, but sometimes the flat image projected on the screen doesn’t allow one to appreciate the full subtlety of something I’m interested in. There are a lot of possible […]
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