New Twitter header photo

[arouinfar]

We'd like to create a new header photo for our Twitter account that incorporates sim screenshots and PhET Girl.

@ariel-phet will set up a time with @mariahmaephet to discuss the details.

[ariel-phet]

@mariahmaephet - let me know a time next week that might work (perhaps a Wednesday meeting). Although this is not yet a high priority, it would be good to toss around some ideas. I think you are going to be able to do something really fun with it!

[mariahmaephet]

@ariel-phet sounds fun! Wednesday would be good

[ariel-phet]

Ok, lets plan Wednesday at 1 pm @ Amanda's office

[ariel-phet]

Sims screenshots to use: Color Vision, Forces and Motion: Basics, pH Scale:Basics, Area Builder, Energy Skate Park

[ariel-phet]

To get screenshots go to sim repository, then to assets, click on screenshot, click "raw", can save screenshot

[mariahmaephet]

@ariel-phet @amanda-phet Just an update

Chem Lab

Vision - do you like them with or without the 3D glasses?

And I'm still going to add a few objects to this one and play around with colors a bit, but I'd love feedback if it looks alright or if there's anything more you'd like to see in the scene.

[mariahmaephet]

I'm also making files of all the objects so we have those individually for the future

[mariahmaephet]

and just for reference this is how they look with the simulations

[amanda-phet]

This looks amazing @mariahmaephet .

Re: Color Vision, I think we should skip the 3D glasses since that sim is more about color perception.

[ariel-phet]

Looking great! For pedagogical reasons, the "tug of war" should be with a cart if we are comparing to the sim...so could we put a big cart in the scene?

[ariel-phet]

Oh and in the movie scene the girl in the top right should be given open eyes

[mariahmaephet]

@ariel-phet @amanda-phet comments on these and ideas for how the banner should be arranged?

I still want some sort of writing on the white board in the classroom scene but I'm still working on how to make it look good. Any ideas on what should be written?

[ariel-phet]

Hey @mariahmaephet really coming along amazingly! A few comments/tweaks but overall super awesome!

1. In the math scene the two students seem to be looking off into the distance, maybe have them looking at the teacher or at their work?
2. In the math scene maybe make the student look much more obviously african-american. I think we want at least one character pretty dark skinned, and like the teacher in balancing act more volume/"fro-iness" to his hair
3. In terms of on the board I think some examples of area and perimeter of geometric figures, I will paste in a good example in a comment below.
4. The skating scene is great -- even better would be if one of the front characters was in a wheel chair looking like they were having a blast. The detail of the shadow is fantastic by the way.
5. In terms of arrangement, any order of the scenes will do as long as the correct sim is associate with each scene. I think we will need some negative space (if we just tile them, I think they will feel cluttered).

[ariel-phet]

Here is an example of what the board should look like

http://images.wisegeek.com/chalkboard-geometry-shapes-and-equations.jpg

Definitely keep the triangle, but maybe replace the cylinder with a rectangle with (A=L*w)

[ariel-phet]

Everything from these scenes looks great! Closing.