One of the most important individual responsibilities we have as citizens of the world is to strive to become educated citizens, and a critical skill of any educated citizen is that of effective communication. Scientists must be able to communicate about science, and physics students must be able to communicate about physics. We must be able to speak, listen, read, and write about physics. We cover speaking and listening about physics for the most part in class on a daily basis, but I want to provide the opportunity for you also to read and write about physics . This blog will provide a focus for that opportunity. As students who are members of a learning community, you have a responsibility to contribute to this effort. We will work at whatever pace is best for all of us, and use our class blogs to increase everyone's learning and achievement.
We will be using Blogger.com as our blog platform, so everyone will need to sign up for an e-mail account (if you don't already have one) which will allow you to log into Blogger.com. After you have set up your e-mail account, send an e-mail to me at lawrence_wirth@pittsford.monroe.edu. Shortly, you will receive an e-mail from me with an invitation to your class blog.
We will help each other with these first steps until we really get the hang of what we are trying to do.
1 comment:
I like the blog idea because it provides different insight about the notes that we go over in class which can be helpful. Sometimes reading further into things that you don't understand can help you learn them. I also like the diagrams that are on the blog. However, I somewhat dislike that it limits when and where you can do your homework if it is on the blog. Some of us lead very busy lives outside of school and can't be around a computer very much. Other than that, however, I think that the blog is going to be very helpful.
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