CERNThis is my podcast relating to the coming changes in science. I hope to use material such as this to pique some interest in my physics students about the coming revolution in science that will happen in their lifetimes. The material is current, happening as we speak, and quite relevant to the future decades. After listening to the podcast, my students will start work on the CERN scavenger hunt, where they will hopefully learn enough to interest them in wanting to know more.
CERNPodcast
CERN Scavenger Hunt
I used Audacity to complete the podcast. Audacity is not difficult to use; indeed, the only difficulty is that I came down this last 10 days with the first laryngitus of my life, and this is an impossible assignment if you cannot speak. My voice still cracks and breaks during the voice recording, but this is the best I can do for awhile. I am also at maximum volume, so if you cannot hear, it will be corrected when I get a little better. I tried to cut and paste the music a lot, then found the easy to use stretch key to make the music fit the words, and I was off and running. I was surprised how much volume a Wav. file is, but I could not download the program I needed to allow Audacity to export to a mp3 format. I will try to correct that later, as well.
I was later able to change the format of my file, going from a wav. file to an mp3. file. This changed the volume to only 2.64 mbite, a far more satisfactory size.
As for the relevance of the material, I consider it possibly the most important things I can discuss as a physics teacher. Consider this: the discovery of the electron allowed all the wonderful things we developed in the 20th century. What can the graviton bring us?
