Physics, Math and Tech Toys

Great photos from Dan Meyer. It is really interesting to see how he made the images. The quote below the images is from Dan’s comments to the blog post.

I shot the video from a Flip cam mounted to a tripod. I exported the video at 15 fps (I think) to jpg images, which I imported into Photoshop, where I masked out everything but the basketballs and the birds in each frame. In the final frame, I also included myself chasing the ball.

That’s it. These skills are difficult at first but they become very very easy. I realize hardware and software are expensive but I highly recommend the Adobe Creative Suite to math teachers. An ability to use Photoshop and AfterEffects to manipulate images and video has made a much better math teacher out of me. It’s made the job more fun also.

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