Update on AHS Chemistry Podcasts - Physics, Too!

Just a quick post to update you on Brian Hatak's AHS Chemistry Podcasts that I blogged about previously. Some of the technological issues have begun to get ironed out and overall things are going well. That's not to say that there aren't a lot of improvements to be made - there are, but things are going well enough that now Jeff Smith, an AP Physics teacher, is doing the same thing.

Brian also asked his students to provide some feedback on how things are going, which we'll use to hopefully make improvements. Brian also wrote an article that will be appearing soon in ISTE's Learning & Leading with Technology magazine, so look for that in the near future.

The Large Hadron Collider Rap

I shared this link with my science teachers a week or two ago because I thought it had some cool pictures of the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN.


Then today I stumbled across this LHC Rap on YouTube:


Lyrics here.

Now, I'm not sure I can make any profound statements about how this can revolutionize education, although I certainly think attempting to create a rap song/video/poetry - when done right - can help students try to focus on the essential concepts of any topic and how best to communicate those concepts (and can conceivably help other students get interested in the topic as well). But I just have to marvel at a world where high energy particle physics, YouTube and rap music can intersect so easily. I sometimes think we take all this stuff for granted - so much so that we often don't take advantage of it all.