promethium3

Slide Rocket and Research at EOU

2010-07-06T12:21:00.000-07:00

The following is a slide show featuring a slide show that I made while doing research at EOU.

2009-12-30T15:26:00.001-08:00

This week while I am waiting for school to start I had a chance to see what google has that is new in there labs. So I am seeing if I can add one of there new toys.

Jason

Summer 2009

2009-08-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

Howdy

I spent the summer at EOU doing research. It was a great time. I also worked with some great people and I wanted them how easy it was to make web pages.

One option is to have a blog it allows you to add polls, movies, and pictures.
Another option is to a google site web page such as this one.

Here is a sample poll:

How would you rate your experience this summer at EOU?(surveys)

Here is a quiz to test your knowledge on NO binding:

Here is a picture from the research:

For more information about EOU click here.

Hope you had a great summer.

Six Words or Less

2009-06-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

I came I confused I conquered (To me that's three).
Medford, Research on CO and NO, I emailed kmz file for google Earth.
Jason

2009-06-09T13:31:00.000-07:00

A local veteran passed away the day before D-day in Paris and the president of the United States took time to recognize him. Here is a video clip:

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

The veteran was Jim Norene

Career Day Structural Engineer.

2009-03-29T09:43:00.000-07:00

Howdy

A student of mine asked me to give a speech to a careers class. Currently I am a teacher but over the past twenty years I have had various jobs. One of which was a structural engineer for a skylight manufacturing company. I would do simple engineering on a daily basis typically trying to get business for people in the construction industry. So my daily routine involved the receiving of faxes from a contractor who was putting together a bid for a construction job. The contractor typically was a person who did windows of any type. An architect would design a building and if it had a skylight someone else would need to build it. So I would look over the plans plug it into a computer and see what type of support would be required.

To understand what I am talking about take a look at the following web page:

On the web page are letters that represent the different types of beams that would be used to design a skylight. Typically the letter E determines the size of system used in the design of a skylight. Take a look at the next web page:

Then looking at the length of the rafter typically determined the size of rafter cross section (see the following web page).

So my day to day routine involved the engineering of skylights to get an idea of the cost of skylight system, I did have one project that was rather large. The Malcha Mall of Jerusalem Israel, is a shopping mall with a large free standing structural dome skylight which I designed. I didn't do the engineering but I calculated the lengths of every part of the skylight. Here is a photo of the project as it looks today.
To see some of today's points of interest on Google Earth use the following files:

All you need to do is have Google Earth running and click on the above links and you will be taken directly to were they are pointing you to see.

References for today's images:
"H.R.V.A.C. - Projects - Shopping Malls - Malcha Mall-Jerusalem." H.R.V.A.C - CONSULTING ENGINEERING CO. LTD.. 29 Mar. 2009 <http://www.hrvac.co.il/page.php?ID=113>.
"Overhead and Vertical Glazing Systems (Regal Mfg. Co. Div.)." AECinfo: Your Source of Building Products Information. 29 Mar. 2009 <http://www.aecinfo.com/1/resourcefile/00/30/65/default3066_1.html>.

Hang Drum

2009-03-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

Howdy
Last night I saw an article in a physics magazine for a relatively new musical instrument. What I thought was interesting is there was a reference to YouTube so I thought I would check it out. I was amazed that a one piece of steel could make so many sounds. Here are my top three picks: Pick Number One:

Pick Number Two:

Pick Number Three:

Enjoy the sites and sounds.
Jason

NCCE Experience

2009-02-22T15:19:00.001-08:00

Reflections on educational technology

2009-02-19T19:30:00.001-08:00

NCCE Conference Portland Day 1_2009

2009-02-19T19:04:00.000-08:00

Howdy

Today was a busy day and I attended several sessions and in every one of them I learned something new or saw something that I would like to try for my f2f classes or my online classes.

The first thing I saw that looked slick was a voki I think I saw them before but some of the features described sounded cool so I had to set up an account here is an example:

Get a Voki now!

I don't say a lot but I didn't know what else to say.

One of the things about voki was that a person could update the message on a daily basis using a cell phone and that seemed cool to me and cool to students.

Another web page that was described was ?light box?. I haven't had a chance to look at that but I will later. Basically it allowed you to put a slide show into a blog much like putting in a video. I liked it because you could upload any size of picture and it automatically would format them for you so you don't have to do a lot of editing with pictures to resize them into something that is web compatiable.

Another idea that was brought up was ?nanogone?. This sounded like a good idea but it is very complicated sounds like you would need to modify some code in order to get it to work with moodle. I think a later presentation had a better solution.

Voice thread was the next thing that I created an acount with: There is a free version but it was a little tricky to get it to work correctly. You need to register as an educator. One of the things was to use the presenters example and posted it into my blog as an example.

I will update more information later.

Talk to you later.

Jason

Video Production and Education

2008-06-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

Howdy

This spring in my f2f class I had my Earth science and my physical science class create videos based on a podcast put on by the McDonald's Observatory. Students were given the audio track from CD's and then used pictures found on the internet and then used movie maker to make a movie. A great component of using the podcast is that a transcript of the podcast was available so students could look at the text and use it to find pictures.

Here is the scoring rubric given to students with the assignment. Table's didn't work to well in Blogspot here is a link to a web page with the scoring guide.

Here are some examples of students work:

Earl Video Link Stardate May 9th Link to Text

Zech Video Link Stardate May 2nd Link to Text

Josh Video Link Stardate May 3rd Link to Text

Here is my sample movie that student used to understand the project this video is on Teacher Tube.

Another project was a 30 second commercial here is my take on the assignment.

Talk to you later.

Jason Palmer

Gaming In Education for TAG

2008-06-24T09:32:00.000-07:00

Howdy

After reading the article and looking at the assignment that states that this could be for TAG students I disagree in that gaming would work better for non-traditional students. Non-traditional students are burned out on school and gaming would be a method of getting them to participate and learn in a non-traditional method.

So these are my ramblings what are yours?

Jason

Project Based Learning

2008-06-24T09:04:00.000-07:00

Howdy

So far my physical science course doesn't really have a project based learning project but I am hoping to implement some into my course. I have been thinking about some ideas to make it open ended projects so that students can take an assignment and internalize it and connect to their own learning. One of my concepts is to start with a standard problem such as how would you create a better light bulb. Some of the concepts that the students need to think about is materials and manufacturing of their new invention. One of the things that I hope students do is to do research on how a light bulb is manufactured and then think about ways that they would do to make it better. Other considerations for students are how much energy that light bulb takes to be powered so students can think about green energy. Once students have done the project students would be expected to grade their paper verses a paper already done.

So those are my ideas what are yours.

Jason

Freewrite at Summer Institute

2008-06-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Today is a beautiful day at Medford, Oregon. At my annual summer institute for Oregon Online the question was asked "What does it mean to have a 21st Century Skills?"

21st Century Skills:

You need to be able to use an email account.

You need to be able to send and receive text messages by cell phone or online.

You need to be able to make a web page.

You need to be able to use a word processor.

You need to be able to use a spread sheet.

You need to be able to make a power point presentation.

You need to be able to make new accounts and track login names and passwords.

You need to know a little bit of html.

You need to be able to adapt because all of the programs listed are going to change next week to something new.

What do you think?

ES_1_Unit_5_Atmosphere_2

2007-08-16T11:16:00.000-07:00

Howdy

You have answered the poll now you need to tell me what evidence you have for your answer. Remember the poll question was:

So leave how you answered and give support to your answer.
Jason

ES_Unit_5_Atmosphere_1

2007-08-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

Howdy

In science it can be beneficial to create ways to remember things. For example a lot of people have learned the order to the colors of the rainbow by using Roy G BV, which stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. So you have five layers to remember and the order of them and a key feature so how can you remember all of that? Go to the following discussion board and leave your answer.

So click on Comments below and leave your answer to remembering the layers of the atmosphere.

Jason

ES_1_Water_Cycle_2

2007-08-16T08:49:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Hopefully you are wrapping your studies on the water cycle. You should have made an online power point using thumbstacks.com. You have posted to an earlier discussion question on the water cycle. You have done the scattergory game and researched some of the terms on that corresponding web page and are ready to answer for me two questions.

The first question is:
What is evapotranspiration?
and the second is:

What is infiltration?
Please click on # comments to post your response.

Jason

From the mouth of Babes

2007-07-31T07:32:00.000-07:00

Howdy
I have been going to post this for awhile so I am going to combine a few thoughts.
My youngest Boo is quite the character. Recently my wife and I bought a new pickup. So we were driving down the road talking about it and our youngest over hearing the conversation pipes up daddy's ketchup. So I am the proud owner of a solid white pickup with the name ketchup.

Another story about our youngest is how many syllables words have. I am not sure why or when it started but her high chairto her is a two syllable word and she wants to have three syllables so high chair is called the hi chi chair.

My oldest daughter has recently learned to peddle her tricycle. She loves to burn rubber up and down the sidewalk. Her favorite thing was to go as fast as she could and then crash into the gate with her front tire. Then she learned to hit the brakes and stops on a dime before crashing into the gate. We took the bike down to my nephew’s birthday party and she was giving my youngest nephew rides on the back of her tricycle.

Jason

ES_1_Water Cycle

2007-07-19T09:32:00.001-07:00

Howdy

Hopefully you have successfully created an online powerpoint using thumbstacks.com. In your powerpoint you were to include how the following methods of heat transfer: radiation, convection, and conduction are part of the water cycle. In this blog you are expected to answer the following question: how does density of water vapor change during a convection cell current as it makes a complete path?

Please click on comments to leave your answer to this question. If your answer is not complete you will be asked to leave more information.

Jason

ES_1_Big_Bang

2007-07-18T11:49:00.001-07:00

Howdy
In my Web 2.0 page there is a link to MindMeister which allows multiple users to manipulate a concept map. This blog entry is designed for students to leave a comparison of their concept map to the concept map I have created. In some ways creating or manipulating a concept map is not a right or wrong type question but a process in which students read through terms and group them into groups how they feel they should be organized. Some terms don't belong together and some terms need to be separated into categories under a main heading. In order to complete the concept map students will need to do research on the terms and how they relate to the general theme of the map and group the terms and organize the information into categories. The concept map will need to have some categories added but all terms should be put into a group. Some terms maybe used in more then one place.
The purpose of this blog is for you the student to leave questions about the process and to defend your concept map creation to the one that I will email you once you email me that you have a final product. Click on Post a Comment to leave your opinions.
Talk to you later.
Jason

Virtual Camping with my Daughters

2007-07-13T16:51:00.001-07:00

Howdy
Today my daughters wanted to do a pretend camping trip. They built a pretend fire pit complete with sticks from around the yard and piled them up to look like a camp fire. We then pretended to roast hot dogs followed by marshmallows. At the end of the campfire I suggested that I would tell them a story. Not ghosts story just a story since they are only two and four. But my oldest said she didn’t want a story that she wanted a movie. I said a movie we don’t have anything to watch a movie with, but I was wrong she got out her pretend portable DVD and we pretended to watch a movie. Luckily, I did get to tell my story after the movie was over.
These digital kids these days.
Jason

ES_1_Poll_4

2007-07-11T17:56:00.000-07:00

Howdy
Here is my latest poll:

In this poll you should have answered it in the previous page and the answer is: convection. Convection is a means of energy transfer in which material heats up and becomes less dense then it originally started. Once a material is less dense it tends to rise as more dense material comes into contact with heat source and eventually will also become less dense and rise therefore creating a circular movement of material. My question to you is why does the material become less dense?
Please leave your response by clicking on comments and leave your answer to the above question. If you are one of the first to repond be sure to check back and see what others are saying and look for my posting which will give you my answer to the question.
Talk to you later.
Jason

ES_1_Poll_3

2007-07-11T17:29:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Here is the 3rd Poll that I have created in my Web 2.0 web page. The poll from that page is also located here:

So you have taken the poll and have seen what other people have put so what is the right answer. Please leave me your answer and why you think you are right. This poll is a little more exact then the last one and there is only one correct answer. From this part of the discussion we can come up with a new definition of mass to include this property which is what? Please leave your response once I have a few posts I will give you my answer and why it is right. To leave a post click on the word comments below.
Talk to you later.
Jason

My Youngest Daughter Boo (Cherries)

2007-07-11T12:18:00.000-07:00

Howdy
My nearly 2 1/2 year old discovered cherries. The first thing she discovered is that they have rocks in them. So when she wants cherries or see cherries to eat its take out the rocks daddy.
Talk to you later.
Jason

ES_1_Poll_2

2007-07-11T11:49:00.000-07:00

Howdy

In this second poll from unit 1 of Earth science you had the following poll:

So you have taken the poll and have seen what other people have put so what is the right answer. Please leave me your answer and why you think you are right. This poll is a little more exact then the last one and there is only one correct answer. From this part of the discussion we can come up with a new definition of mass to include this property which is what? Please leave your response once I have a few posts I will give you my answer and why it is right.
Talk to you later.
Jason

Earth Science 1 Unit 1 Poll 1

2007-07-11T11:20:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Hopefully you have taken the poll on my web 2.0 page. If you have not then you need to goto the following link before proceeding any further. Web 2.0 Link
The exact poll is also here if you have not yet taken the poll remember that more information is on the web 2.0 page that gives you more information.

So you have taken the poll and have seen what other people have put so what is the right answer. Please leave me your answer and why you think you are right once I have a few posts I will give you my answer and why I think it is right.
Talk to you later.
Jason

First Polldaddy

2007-07-06T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a poll that I created on Polldaddy.

Jason

My Daughter's

2007-07-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Since I own another blog that I use for education I thought I would use this blog as an electronic journal of my life. I think that my oldest daughter is an amazing girl yesterday she brought me a toy car and she was excited because on the back of the car was a rectangular oval inset on the fender. She told me that this was the cars gas tank. It's amazing because if I am filling up the car she is always on the inside of the car and most of the time she isn't in the car. She seems to figure things out without being told. This morning she told me she had two dreams last night. In one dream she went to McDonald's but it was very small. At the McDonald's there was a pony with sparkles. She was also able to put sparkles in the pony's hair and her drink. I thought it was funny that she combined reality with her imagination.
My other daughter has been helping me to water the plants. Yesterday it was extremely hot reaching 94 degrees. So when it cooled down in the evening we went outside and watered all of the plants. She does a good job for a 2 year old I let her have a lot of fun watering one tree. I tell her to water the tree at the base and it is on a slope. In order for the water to get to the roots I try to get her to water on the uphill side. So I tell her to water up higher so she turns the hose straight into the air and waters the branches. She has a ball and I just laugh as she plays with the water.
That's all for now.
Jason

2007-06-27T09:53:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Here is a link to a web page created using dreamweaver. The link has an example of SMART board software used in the O2 summer institute of 2007.

There is also some information on web 2.0.

Enjoy the show.

Jason

Favorite Event in Online Classes

2007-06-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

Howdy

I would say I have several events.

The students realized that nothing was locked and proceeded to do the whole course in a week.
A student was on TV.
The TV student was knocked out and had a recording of the event.
I did an IVC session with my Mac High students.

There are more but I can't think of them right now.

Jason

What did I learn?

2007-06-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

Howdy
I learned that I need a degree in programming to pull of some of my great ideas. I learned when someone is digging they need to call and check for cable connections since part of my material was in an area that was cut off due to a cable being cut. I can't think of anything else.
Jason

Virtual 2x4

2007-06-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Every time I put something on the internet I often say "Howdy." It's not a powerful knock you out of your socks 2x4 but it is something that I am consistent with. You could say that I am a red neck from a backwater school. I grew up in a small town and went to a large university and earned a bachelors in aerospace engineering. So basically you could call me a rocket scientist and just like the cavemen on TV that get offended when they say Geico is so easy a caveman can do it, I take offense when people say it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do a task. Actually I don’t take offense I have a little thinker skin then some caveman.
Getting back to my college days, while at college I was known as a small town boy and that image has stuck with me ever since. I was one of those people who graduated high school and swore to my self that I was never going to move back to that small town I had dreams of living in a much bigger city. So it seems ironic my nickname in college became the name of the town that I grew up in. People that I spent four years with in college thought my real name was Heppner not Jason. After graduating college I have moved a little bit but after a while I went back to school to become a teacher and my first permanent job as a teacher ends up being at the same school that I attended and I am teaching out of a classroom that I actually took classes in. So the irony of my life is very funny and when you graduate high school never say never.
Jason

2007-06-26T08:14:00.000-07:00

Howdy

Welcome to my new blog. Currently this is my 2nd blog. I am not sure how it will be used. So enjoy and I will talk to you later.

Jason