Hi, welcome to the energy physics course. My name is Carol Fabby and I will be your instructor for this semester.
I am a physicist, which means that I have a bachelor's and a master's in physics and I am currently working on my
PhD in physics education research - all through the University of Cincinnati.
I've been passionate about energy since I was a kid. I grew up in the 70's during the energy crisis, and I just really
want to learn more about all of energy
sources available to us today.
So let's learn a little bit about the course. The purpose of this course is for you to learn
about energy - right?!
- what is it that we use and how can we progress as we move through our lives?
So you're going to learn about the history; we're going to learn about current events and everything in between.
So, we'll learn about traditional sources such as crude oil and natural gas and some of the newer methods such as solar and
wind power.
We'll have discussions about why we consider some of these sources
non-renewable and some are renewable. We'll also discuss some of the controversial
sources of energy, like nuclear power and why in society's eyes that's maybe not the best way to go.
We'll also watch videos and movies to understand how our power grid is
structured and how it works for us. And to that end we'll also do some activities to learn about
such things as electricity. Part of this is we're going to do
an end a project, where we do an energy audit of how, we as individuals use energy in our everyday lives
So you're, gonna find this to be quite
interesting.
This course is a hybrid course so everything you're going to do is going to be online. You'll watch videos, read
through, powerpoints,
do some activities and take quizzes - all online. Then the other portion, is that you'll come to class
once a week for two hours - where you'll interact with, me and other students in the class. We'll do some
supplemental activities like
laboratory experiments, some additional activities, which may include a video sometimes or other
types of activities, which will give you a better understanding of the particular
concept we're studying that week.
Also, during the in-class periods you will take exams.
So now you're probably thinking, well how am i going to get to all this information.
Well obviously you have access to a computer and the internet because you're watching
this video - right? So you'll access blackboard through our
school site and through the course blackboard site.
You'll look at all the tabs up on the left side of your screen once you're in the course.
The best place to start is the tab that says 'Start Here'.
That will give you all the
overview of the course there you have access to the syllabus,
all of the grading scale
information that you're going to need; and feedback from me. It'll also give you an idea of what expectations I have of you
as students as well.
So once you've done that then you're ready to start the course and then you go to the tab that says
'Content'. This content tab includes weekly folders that are
designed to give you information about, each week's
information. So each week will tell you about what
subject that we're studying, and then it'll give you kind of the overview
of that week and the objectives for that week. It'll list out what readings you have to do from the textbook or other articles,
what videos you have to watch or if there is a powerpoint slides
It will
also, give you an idea if there's some activities you have to do or if there's a quiz to take. It'll
also in general give you an idea what we'll do in class - if it's an activity or lab
experiment. Or if we'll watch a movie and have group discussions. So I'll give you an idea what you're doing each week
class time. Again, we'll do mostly those activities in terms of labs or expanding
understanding.
Well I look forward to meeting everyone of you in class and
getting your ideas about energy, and
insights to maybe some future prospects. Good luck. Let me know if you've got any questions and I'll see you soon. Thanks
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