Visualizing Physics

It is typical for teachers to face the lesson that is incomprehensible by the students due to many factors. Despite of that, teachers are always creative and innovative in enhancing teaching and learning for the sake of their students. They invent teaching aids, manipulate and modify everything possible around them. With current digital world, they adapt and make use of any available resources from internet as their teaching materials and also tools for assessing students. They sometimes acquired the digital materials sources from the pedagogical courses they attend.

As a teaher, I always interested with any new teaching media that has been introduced, be it physical or digital resources. One tool that I have used and still using it is Screencast O'Matic (SOM) which is a tool that simplify our job in doing video recording and editing. There are a list of my collection of SOM videos I made for my students as my flipped classroom methodology for students' learning. All the videos have been uploaded in my Youtube channel. It is not that much but if you are interested to watch them, here you go:Introducing Communication Tools, Electric Field Direction, Degree of Freedom, Escape Velocit, Simple Harmonic Motion  & AR lesson.

I did not expect much from my students at first, but surprisingly, all students from my lecture did watch the video before my lesson. I feel it is worth it burning the midnight all creating the videos. I always asked my students to prepare before lesson so that the prior knowledge will help them to understand better. Apart from giving them SOM video, I also shared my writing in this blog on the particular physics concepts through the whatsapp group. However, there is a minority group of students who were not able to watch videos before hand due to their bad internet connection on their smartphones. They need to solve this problem themselves such as watching the video from their friend's tools.

I really enjoyed recording my voice explaining the simulation I edited using tools in PowerPoint. I do have the option of just using any videos from internet but it defeated the purpose of creating video with what I want to focus on. The movement of the objects or pictures were all done in detail and it is really time consuming. I did all these at home as the recording process require silence background and I made sure my sons went to bed first !😂😎. This is among the personal  challenge I faced in preparing my teaching materials.

Thank you.

Ummi Atiah Mohamad
Med Physics
UPSI

 ~ May it Benefits You ➽💕

**I don't prefer to put videos in my blog due to my slow internet connection, it takes a long time to upload