Vernier products have greatly changed how my classroom and lab is run. I have designed my classroom around student access to Vernier probeware so that lab can occur at anytime! In this talk I will discuss how I use some of my favorite prodcuts in class and online (I mean COVID and all). I will highlight the products that in my opinion have impacted student learning the greatest. This will include everything from motion to atomic spectra!

After a 30-year physics teaching position at Cloud County Community College in Concordia, KS I retired on the last day of July 2020. Three days of fishing and I went back to work. This time at Bennington, Nebraska, as a High School Physics and Chemistry Instructor. Who were the first people I called once I moved into my new school? Vernier Software, my go to, my clutch performers, my other right hand. From Graphical Analysis to Pivot Interactives Vernier has always been beside me in my career. This talk will be historical, and futuristic, ultimately leading to my newest favorite vernier product, Pivot Interactives. 

Whether instruction is in a face-to-face classroom or virtual, Video Analysis allows students to identify physics in the world around them while collecting some real data. Students don't need any equipment to learn physics and if you teach secondary physics, you know how important it is for students to journal.  Vernier's Go Direct Technology allows for real time data collection and partners with Science Journal.  This session will give examples of how both of these have been used in classrooms to enhance student understanding.