Ubiquitous Professional Development with the

Global Physics Department

CO/WY AAPT Spring Meeting

Danny Caballero (@physicistdanny)University of Colorado Boulder

Problems with Traditional PD• Shrinking school budgets• Broad vs. targeted• Location always stinks• It’s so boring

Professional development workshop of your dreams

Brian Carpenter @physicscarp Shaker Heights, OH

• Physics educators on twitter: bit.ly/physicstweeps

• Weekly tweetchats Tuesdays, 7pm MT#scichat hashtag

It all started on twitter…

Great ideas abound…

http://bit.ly/physparenthw

Next step: Going globalWednesdays 7:30pm MT

http://bit.ly/GlobalPhysics

Host & Founder:Andy Rundquist, Hamline

Universityhttp://arundquist.wordpress.com/

http://bit.ly/gpdmccullough

Live Collaboration

Huge Archive

70+ archived recordings

http://globalphysicsdept.org

Hear from textbook authors

Ruth ChabayBruce Sherwoodhttp://bit.ly/gpdmandi

Thomas Moorehttp://bit.ly/6ideasmooore

Randall Knighthttp://bit.ly/knightphysics

The Latest in PER

Noah Podolefsky http://bit.ly/gpdphet

Ken Hellerhttp://bit.ly/gpdheller

Hear Eminent Scientists

http://bit.ly/gpdcarroll

Learn new skills

http://bit.ly/gpdlatexAndy Rundquist

http://bit.ly/gpdvpythonDanny Caballero

VPython

Brainstorm lessons

Physics Coaching

Student presentations

The Physics Problem Database

Future Plans• Rehearse talks for

AAPT meetings• Improved website• Guide to physics

twitter-blogosphere• Collaborative

research?

Will you join us? • Next meeting: 7:30pm Wednesday, April 24:• Student presentation - Cutting DNA (SUNY)

Danny Caballeroblog: thinklikeaphysicist.comtwitter: @physicistdannyemail: danny.caballero@gmail.com