{"id":8983,"date":"2014-01-21T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:55:40","slug":"physics-hangout-in-need-of-better-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/21\/physics-hangout-in-need-of-better-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Hangout in Need of Better Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with the umpteen zillion articles declaring the Death of the Blog, I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of doing something podcast-ish for a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/dotphysics\/\">Rhett Allain from Dot Physics<\/a> was game, too, and suggested using Google+ to do a video hangout, so here we are talking about our classes this term:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UH1ykizPy6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video quality is kind of crap on my end, which is a recurring problem here when we Skype with the grandparents. I probably should&#8217;ve closed more programs and tabs, but I&#8217;m an idiot. Also, I fidget a lot. But this is meant to be fairly casual, and I really do talk with my hands like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s a tentative experiment in expanding our respective social media empires into a new venue. We probably should&#8217;ve done something more dynamic and splashy for the debut, but we&#8217;re still testing out the technology, and don&#8217;t want to break everything at once. <\/p>\n<p>So, any opinions? Worth doing more of? Suggestions of stuff we ought to talk about? Ideas for a title for this if we were to do it regularly (I suck at titles&#8211; &#8220;Uncertain Dot&#8221; is about the best I&#8217;ve got&#8230;)?<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I should probably use this space to add links, so here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/physics\/EducationIssues\/cts\/index.htm\">Colorado PER group&#8217;s resource collection<\/a> that I mentioned in the conversation. Some excellent stuff there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matterandinteractions.org\/\">Matter and Interactions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.pomona.edu\/sixideas\/\">Six Ideas that Shaped Physics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with the umpteen zillion articles declaring the Death of the Blog, I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of doing something podcast-ish for a while. Rhett Allain from Dot Physics was game, too, and suggested using Google+ to do a video hangout, so here we are talking about our classes this term: The video quality&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/21\/physics-hangout-in-need-of-better-title\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics Hangout in Need of Better Title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,134,13,7,11,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-course_reports","category-education","category-physics","category-science","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}