Last night's Global Physics Department meeting was devoted to a wrap up discussion of the Summer AAPT meeting in Philadelphia that just took place.  We shared highlights from the meeting, talked about ideas that AAPT might be improved, and the overall value face to face conferences in the day of social media. links from the discussion:

• U-stream recordings from the meeting (Phillip Sadler's Millikan Medal acceptance speech (slides) is highly recommended.

• Minds of their own: The original video series created by Sadler to explore featuring students who have graduated from Harvard and MIT struggling to light a light bulb with a battery and a wire.

• RIT's Livephoto project: Interactive video vignettes— awesome HTML5 based video analysis activities that work on tablet computers, developed by Prisilla Laws and Robert Teese.

• Peter Bohacek's awesome direct measurement video analysis problems, featured on Carleton's Science Education Research Center.

• Chris D'amato's presentation on Mastery Learning at AAPT.

Elluminate recording of Wednesday August 1 discussion.

Next Week's session: Advice for New High School Physics Teachers

Next week, we'll be giving advice to new high school physics teachers. To help make this session awesome, we need you to do two things:

1. Fill our this 5 minute survey with advice for new teachers.

2. Recruit any new teachers you know to come to our meeting next Wednesday at 9:30 PM EST.

In two weeks, we'll be giving advice to New College/University Physics teachers.