I am thinking of offering a session during the Summer half term (Friday 30 May) for A-Level Physics Paper 2 (AQA), where I work through the 2024 paper in real time and narrate the thought process for answering the questions. The session would be somewhere between 2 and 3 hours long (depend on how long it takes to do the 2-hour paper whilst narrating and answering questions students ask). I could perhaps do the same thing for Paper 3A on the same day too. Would this be something people are interested in?
I have offered additional revision sessions in the past and had limited uptake, but a few people have asked me for some extra support so if there’s sufficient interest I can see if I can offer this.
In terms of price, I have seen someone else doing something similar online for £30 per paper, which I think is a tad too expensive, so let’s say £20 per paper.
If you are interested and wish to commit to taking part, please complete the form below. I will contact you with enrolment instructions if there are sufficient numbers of interested students.
Edited to add:
There has now been sufficient interest to run these sessions. If you wish to take part, go to https://physicswithkeith.com/helpmepass/ and click the two links to enrol on each session.
Bye Bye Discord
Unfortunately, there were not enough people participating on the Discord Server. In fact, weeks would go by with people joining, but no-one interacting. No questions, no physics discussions. Maintaining the Discord Server required me to be constantly alert and watchful, to make sure nothing inappropriate was posted. The cost of my time and effort maintaining the Discord Server was greater than the value students seemed to get from it, so I have shut it down.
Bye Bye TikTok
I was uploading short videos where I was redefining English words and phrases as physicists use them. I ended up redefining around 120 words and phrases. Each short video took around half an hour to record and edit.
I wanted to record these videos because it was important for students to understand the importance of using technical language correctly, and I thought recorded entertaining short videos was a good way to do that. Well, mission accomplished.
I decided to share the videos across multiple platforms, including TikTok and Instagram. According to my students, people their age tend to use TikTok and Instagram more than YouTube to consume content. As young people were the target audience, it made sense to share the videos where they are watching them.
What happened? The number of followers I have on TikTok shot up by around 13,000 people, and I gained a few thousand subscribers on YouTube too. Unfortunately, this did not seem to direct people to enrol in the tuition sessions, nor watch the longer videos on YouTube.
I tried TikTok Live, and quite a few people tuned in (although not all at once; during the stream there were only a handful of concurrent viewers); however, one of the viewers made an inappropriate comment and I was unable to remove it. This is a huge safeguarding issue! Live content creators on YouTube have far more control.
My plan is to keep the TikTok channel open, but not to go out of my way to create content for it. It was a fun experiment, but it took hours of work and does not seem to have had the impacts I wanted it to have: to increase the numbers of enrolled tutees and to direct more people towards my longer videos on YouTube.
Hello WhatsApp
With no Discord, how do I get messages out to people about any changes to tuition session timings or reminders about sessions? In the spirit of ‘going where the young people are’, I have decided to make an announcement channel on WhatsApp.
Scan the QR code to join it, or click this link from your phone.
Reminder: Weekly Live Tuition Sessions!
SUNDAY 11th January
GCSE Physics 9:30am – 10:20am Infrared radiation A-Level Physics 10:30am – 11:20am Measurement of specific charge GCSE Astronomy 11:30am – 12:20pm Exploring the moon If you wish to enrol on the tuition sessions and haven’t yet, then click enrol below
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