Monday, August 12, 2013

'Video Companion' Posts

Recently I read a comment thread elsewhere on the 'net where people were arguing the pros and cons of conveying information by video vs. by text. Some prefer video because you actually get to see what's going on, and some prefer text because they can peruse it at their own pace and it is in an easily searchable format. I think it's at least partially a case of visual learners vs. reading-writing preference learners, but I digress.

While I presonally prefer video format (as you may have guessed from there being much more content on my YouTube page) I can understand the points of both sides, and have decided to write blog posts here that I will call "Video Companions". These posts will include a basic write up of the experiment shown in one of my videos, to include things like procedures, formulas, necessary calculations, and any other observations I didn't point out in the video. I think these posts will help to reach a wider audience, enable people to explore the science more, and hopefully take away more from my experiments. I'll try to do this for all my new videos from here on out, and also add posts for older videos (probably progressing in order of their popularity). You can easily search for these types of posts by clicking the tag in the Categories side bar to the right.

So if you prefer text, rejoice and stay tuned for more! If you prefer video, feel free to stick to YouTube, but I encouorage you to visit here occasionally if you have any questions.

4 comments:

  1. Text is great, but seeing it happen is golden. A lot of chemical preps look easy when you read them, and may have little details, or worse, nasty surprises, when you actually do them. Knowing what to expect can keep you from thwarting your efforts and/or burning down your house, so I think they complement one another.

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    1. Thanks! That was definitely the intent of making these Video Companions, and you summed it up well. I like video to see what happens in real life, and text is useful when trying to replicate an experiment.

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  2. Hello Dan,

    can you please contact me on gmerkovic@gmail.com? Have one question about Si02 video that is on youtube.

    Thanks in advance and best regards.

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    1. Feel free to post it here, or send me a private message via YouTube. It's free!

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