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Colors of light

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Monday opened with The Limits of Light as an introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum. Wednesday a cold open was again used. While Niki's Indigo was playing, students who were still  arriving were handed CD spectroscopes and asked to list the colors they saw in the order in which they saw them. After class the realization landed that Indigo should be a playlist of variations on the song to run as background music to the whole opening. Full length gray even including the shoes.  Demonstrating that the shirt is indeed gray under the microscope.Then the photo of the shirt was taken with a Motorola Moto cell phone and placed under the microscope. No more gray. Just red, green, and blue. This term no videos were shown, although the new indigo playlist was running while students looked into the microscope. Then the physiology of vision was explained using the white board.  Later in the period the HSV color system ...
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Floral morphology

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The session opened with the use a cell phone yo enlarge Sphagneticola trilobata . An attempt to use a compound microscope failed badly. Had the microscope worked, considerable time would have been chewed up with a video playlist.  Instead a photo taken with a Pixel Pro 10 was mirrored onto the Smartboard. The five pointed disc florets include stamens and pistils, the ray florets have a visible two lobed style. Following this a playlist was run to cover floral morphology and reproduction. Although Sphagneticola trilobata should logically follow the playlist, part of the function of Sphagneticola trilobata is to delay the playlist start to allow for the inevitable late arrivals. The lead video in the playlist, Flowers , is also in place to delay the start of the core material. Having an image of a solitary inflorescence might make a better first image to show on the Smartboard. Images should be on the tablet to facilitate connectivity - the tablet has a more stable conne...
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Material culture in Micronesia

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 Material culture presentations in class Rollin displayed a Pohnpeian kiam Preston presents an outer island hat called a hanir Outer island hat from coconut fronds Jamielyn presents an outer island Yapese gematlag, a woven frondles that is hung inside a home to spiritually protect the home.  Outer island Yapese gematlag made from a coconut frond Austin brought in a Mwoakillese dok, a food pounder made from Pemphis acidula wood. Mwoakillese dok (long oh). Suean brought in a miniature fohtoh, a traditional Kosraean basket that functions much like the Pohnpeian kiam. The fohtoh is most commonly seen at funerals where traditional foods are brought in fohtoh, redistributed, and then taken home in fohtoh. Kosraean fohtoh Kosraean fohtoh Marikai brought in Marshallese aimimono. Aimimono is a term used broadly for any hand made woven handicrafts.  ...
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