screen cast – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Rainbows and refraction II

mglessmer — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:48:17 +0000

Taking the same graphics as in this post, but presenting them differently. In the previous post, I presented a screen cast explaining, in a very text-booky way, how rainbows form. Today, I am using the same graphics, but I have broken the movie into six individual snippets. I’m starting out from the schematic that concluded last […]

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Rainbows and refraction

mglessmer — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:31:50 +0000

Why is a rainbow always red on top and blue at the bottom? We always talk about prisms and refraction and stuff, but be honest – would you be able to explain the order of colors in a rainbow without pausing and thinking first? As I said the other day, I am currently experimenting with screen […]

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Teaching videos

mglessmer — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:15:20 +0000

Trying to figure out a technique that works for me. I recently talked to a professor at my university who is toying with the idea of making teaching videos. As a reader of my blog you know the kind of videos I usually show here: Pretty much un-edited movies of some kind of experiment. No voice-overs, […]

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